• burgersc12@mander.xyz
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    But once you get it working, it works. It’s not as hard as you imagine, got a working Linux gaming setup in less than an hour after building my PC, and with software like EndeavourOS and Proton, you can get yours setup in such a short amount of time it’d blow your mind.

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      It works, and then you don’t enjoy the game so it was all for nothing, or they release a patch that changes something so you have to do it all over again. And then you have that to look forward to with every new game you want to try out.

      I follow a lot of PC gamers on social media and they’re always crowd-sourcing technical questions about why this or that isn’t working like they expect.

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        I have no idea what you just said.

        Most games you just click play and they work. You don’t need to install drivers or programs or whatever you think everytime at all.

        If they release a dodgy patch or one you don’t like, you can just revert it. On console you are stuck with whatever they give you.

        Don’t like a game after a couple hours? Doesn’t work correctly? Refund it.

        Mainly its linux that will have issues you have to navigate and that is probably where most of the technical questions you come across root from. If you have Windows then 99% of games will just work as you expect.

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          • Batman: Arkham Knight

          • Assassin’s Creed Unity

          • Battlefield 4

          • Homefront: The Revolution:

          • Forza Horizon 3

          • Total War: Rome 2

          All high profile games, all had my social media feeds full of PC gamers complaining about how they ran like shit on their 4,000 dollar PCs.

          You say you don’t know what I’m talking about, but then list every single hoop I’m trying to avoid with the tagline of ‘just jump through them!’.

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            I’ve only played two of them and they worked just the same as any other game. You are putting words into my mouth now, I refuted every ‘hoop’ you listed, I never said ‘just deal with it’.

            I could build a pc, give it to anyone and it would work in the same vein as a console. What is the point you are trying to make? That PCs have loads of issues? The consoles are flawless? Make sense.