I agree.
Building a "Base" PC for US$350 while not impossible is IMHO rather stupid especially if you want to play half decent games although to be fair "half decent" is subjective.
Country to what the wannabe PC designers say if you are a serious gamer you are going to spend well over US$1000 on a decent gaming machine and like it or not you also need to take into account the monitor and the graphics card. Of course if you are using a Linux distribution then at least the operating system is free although your gaming choice is limited, but not impossibly limited since Steam does have quite a few native games for Linux, although you do have to pay for the decent ones.
Actually I did get a first release PS3 (still got it and it still works) at launch but never used the "Other OS" feature so I did not miss it when an optional patch came out to remove it.
I just recently built a desktop with a Skylake i7-6700 chip-set (ie. latest release) for around US$1000 and that did include the monitor and graphics card as well as the latest free Fedora Linux operating system. However since I am not really a PC gamer preferring consoles instead I got a 24" IPS monitor and used the Skylake motherboard graphics. Nothing flash mind you but it does everything that I want and more.
To make my PC into an acceptable gaming rig all I need is a decent graphics card with a monitor to suit and that is going to cost well over US$350.
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