Vote with your $ and get a gaming PC. Don’t let people who remember the 1990s tell you it will be a sweaty experience, install Steam and it won’t be. There are like 15 exclusive games for the PS5, what’s the point?

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ImpostorKeanu an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I vote with my time by not maintaining drivers, setting profiles, and evading anticheat rootkits. Also, M$ is cancer.

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sampullman an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I just click "Install" and then "Play" in Steam on my non-Windows machine. I guess you can't play Fortnight or whatever, but it works great for me.

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PaulHoule an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Playing 20 or so games on my Steam Deck I had to edit one only .INI. The Steam Deck is the only device I've ever seen that pairs perfectly with AirPods every time, it beats Apple devices.

I also have a big gaming PC/AI development with a NVIDIA GPU and, yeah, NVIDIA's app to maintain drivers is a little skeezy but I just download games on Steam and they "just work" though I am not really a day one kind of gamer unless it is a new Dynasty Warriors or Fate game.

I'll grant that kernel anti-cheat sucks, if you play that kind of game and cheating bothers you well then... Maybe a locked down environment like the PS5 is a feature and not a bug.

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jameslars an hour ago | parent [-]

You kind of undermine your own argument here. The Steam Deck is more a console than a PC, with lots of "just works" baked in either directly or through community support that makes it simple.

In 2026 I still have to mess with game settings, driver issues, and DRM garbage behavior as a primarily PC gamer. PC gaming is still a long way from "just works" and I think you probably just take for granted a lot of things you have to do to make it work vs a typical console experience.

	▲	PaulHoule 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Look, in the 1990s I was horrified of PC gaming because I was always dealing with kids who thought they were having fun with their PC whereas they were really fighting with an ugly plastic oversized joystick that fell apart two times during a level and had to be recalibrated three times. Or that it was a sweaty battle with the keyboard and mouse that reprises the sweaty battle with the keyboard and mouse I have at work and with my productive hobbies. I got into console gaming in the late 00's and had a few portables and an Xbox 360 and a PS 3 just after they became obsolete and played through the libraries. My favorite games were games for the PS Vita from Japanese publishers like Altus, Idea Factory and Acquire. When Sony and the publishers quit investing in the Vita those games went right to Steam. And my experience with Steam is, "click on the Steam icon", pair the Xbox controller, use the controller to pick a game, and sit back. Like yeah, there still are sweaty keyboard-and-mouse games and I might even play one once in a while, but I'd say my experience on the big machine is "console like" with the condition that the kind of games I play are "console like" games.

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volkercraig an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

get an immutable linux distro

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tantalor 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'd rather eat poison than use Windows.

	▲	occz 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Linux works quite well for gaming these days. I have a desktop that used to run Windows 11, which is EOL, so I was faced with either upgrading to Windows 12 or trying out Linux on desktop. So far there have been zero games that have had issues. Granted I've only really had time to play 5 or so games, but I am genuinely impressed with how far it's come.
	▲	RankingMember an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/
	▲	freshpaint 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Don’t use Windows. Try CachyOS or Bazzite.
	▲	zamalek 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Depending on what you play, you don't have to. But if you play draconian anti-cheat games then fair point.

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catchnear4321 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Sorry, already own a PS5 and the money for replacements is spoken for.

I think that was the point?

	▲	PaulHoule an hour ago \| parent [-]
		To be fair with the current RAM prices I don't want to replace any device right now!