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by dathinab 1706 days ago
There is a even simpler reason:

A lot of people gaming of Linux are either software developers or system administrators.

People buying a "Linux gaming system" are the rare exception, instead it's often "buy a powerful computer for use case X, and hey why not go for a slightly better/tweaked spec and also also game on it".

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> buy a powerful computer for use case X, and hey why not go for a slightly better/tweaked spec and also also game on it

I'm a programmer and this is exactly what I do.