The future of Linux is ostree:
Your OS is in a container
Your programs are in a container
Everything is in a container
This is far more advanced than any other OS on the market. Also this makes Linux even more secure than it has to be. BTRFS also has a future with filesystem-level backups so even a thing like Wannacry won't cost you too much time reinstalling your operating system, you just rollback from the state where this didn't happen.