The IBM PC is strictly a hardware platform. Macintosh was also a hardware platform but the name got associated with the hardware-OS pairing even after the OS's

The IBM PC is strictly a hardware platform. Macintosh was also a hardware platform but the name got associated with the hardware-OS pairing even after the OS's name lost the "mac" particle. Modern "macs" use PC compatible hardware. Anyway, what I'm complaining about is the habit of naming hardware platforms with the understanding that they probably run a certain OS on them. In this case it looks like Linux is supported, just not advertised. The sooner we kill this confusing marketing jargon the better for everybody.