[bluedanieru]

>It's much more likely to have something to do with the console we know they're working on.

Which, by all accounts, will be more-or-less a Linux PC.

And Linux-on-the-desktop seems healthier now than a couple years ago. The reason it's harder to recommend one single Linux distro, is that even casual users have more than one good choice. I don't see "Unity/Gnome 3/Mint/etc." as a "mess". If you want a single, monolithic platform, we already have that. It's called "Microsoft Windows".