its been growing a lot the past few years.
went to this a few weeks back...
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/2015take a look at their schedule. 2 days of seminars and more
its always fun, and every year it gets bigger and bigger. people come from all over.
and there is always a huge after party, which is pretty damn fun.
great for networking.
although the first one i went to in 1999, it was just 5 guys in a room talking about BBS's...
not so interesting. but this year there was a massive turn out. i think there was 3,000 + people that showed up
looks like there may be something similar in Seattle WA, in October.
http://seagl.org/their site seems a bit non informational.
and i've noticed lately on steam a lot more products being available for linux
but i usually don't play games when in linux, and if i do its just in a vm anyways
but my distro of choice would probably be gentoo...