A good while back I abandoned PC gaming because I was sick of driver issues, compatibility, and always having to update hardware to play the next game. Instead, I embraced consoles and haven't considered PC gaming since then. This, however, has me reconsidering that. I want it to "just work". When I want to play games, I don't want to deal with all of that other crap. I'm old, ain't nobody got time for that.

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barrkel 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I guess you abandoned PC gaming some time in the early 2000s?

	▲	rtkwe 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm quite confused too, that doesn't align with my experience in the last couple years as well. There's notably been a few very good and long lived video cards and also as time goes on there's an ever deepening library of older games that can be played with very affordable cards. I'm wondering when and with what hardware they had that bad experience.

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theshackleford 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's wild how experiences can vary so wildly. That's the nature of PC's though I suppose that you are trying to avoid.

I've had no driver or compatibility issues in longer than I can remember. Maybe Vista?

I also rarely upgrade because playing at console level settings means I can easily get effectively the same lifetime out of my hardware. Though I do tend to upgrade a little earlier than console users still leaning a bit more towards the enthusiast side.

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andoando 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean I just don't see the difference between this and getting any PC and slapping SteamOS on it.

	▲	rtkwe 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There's not currently a way to officially put SteamOS on Steam* hardware. Plenty of people have done it but there's the usual compatibility issues where the image is built for the very specific hardware Valve installs it on so there's often wake from sleep and fan control issues. All solvable but it's not the level of turn key of even a mainline linux distro.
	▲	kevinqi 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		probably the "slapping steamOS" part of that