Yeah these things are definitely trends. I don't think the date needs to change but I do think we should be aware of everything that's happened since. Some of the worst ever treatment of people and actual completed genocides, not in the sense that we stopped doing it because we realised how inhumane it was, but in the sense that every last member of a culture was eradicated. Celebrate the day, have a beer with your mates, all I want is for the typical Australian to be conscious of our history.
Add on top of this modding, piracy and trouble shooting. I still think at this moment for a dedicated gaming machine (glorified console) windows is the better option. I believe everyone who says they can get equal to better performance and do all the aforementioned things on Linux; I don't believe anyone who says everyone can do it or that it's just as easy as doing on Windows.
Why would a user want to go out of their way to resolve issues if there's an alternative that just works. I mean that's the line Linux fans always use "it just works" yet here is a clear example of it not working and now it's apparently a user issue. If the users can't configure the software correctly it's inferior to the software that they can.
Somebody has already died while using a vibrator, I refuse to believe otherwise