I think they won't even see it as a speed bump. Cracking windows activation and allowing you to use it fully takes less time and effort than getting any flavor of linux/bsd installed and working to the ease of use and speed of that pirated windows.

People, like always, will flock to what is easier to use. And they should.

The rest of us who don't mind spending extra time on hardware configurations will, as always, still enjoy Linux/BSD.