The gaming PC market is shrinking. Basically nobody buys pre-built gaming PCs anymore. It makes a lot of sense for manufacturers to join forces under a common label.
And now with most of the Steam games available for Linux, and many more running nicely under Wine, Linux has almost caught up with Mac. I switched to OSX (with a Windows dual-boot option) on my new PC, because it runs most of the games I played, because it offers all the Unix stuff I need for work, and still runs the consumer software (MS Office) I occasionally need. Now that a critical amount of games are running on Linux, I'm thinking about ditching OSX and going Linux(+Windows for the occasional odd app) on all of my devices.
And now with most of the Steam games available for Linux, and many more running nicely under Wine, Linux has almost caught up with Mac. I switched to OSX (with a Windows dual-boot option) on my new PC, because it runs most of the games I played, because it offers all the Unix stuff I need for work, and still runs the consumer software (MS Office) I occasionally need. Now that a critical amount of games are running on Linux, I'm thinking about ditching OSX and going Linux(+Windows for the occasional odd app) on all of my devices.