Year of the desktop has been a meme so long the people spouting it have failed to realize that the desktop itself is in decline.
There are many many people for which a mobile phone or tablet is their only computer. If you want to count Android as a Linux distro then year of the Linux desktop has come and gone ten years ago.
It’s not really an “of course”
Some countries don’t tax lottery winnings, Canada for example. Though for Canada game shows are a bit more nebulous.