At least these days - it means asking for less trouble. It really is improving leaps and bounds. But I still dual boot on my gaming PC, but I run a lot of games on Linux in compatibility mode and it works well a reasonable amount of the time.
When is the last time you tried it? I did yesterday and outside of Activision and some EA games it’s great.
You can build a workstation with Ryzen Threadripper.
What I meant is it been more popular to build your own PC for gamers due to price and customization.