I get you’re trying to dump buckets of rain on our entire thread here, but can you acknowledge that educating and inviting console users to the PC platform is beneficial for those users and the community as a whole?
There are definitely those who you can’t teach, can’t convince, who are too stubborn to believe there’s any other way than paying eighty dollars for games and spending hundreds of dollars on already obsolete hardware with a mandated walled garden.
However, there are many users who are simply not educated rather than inept, and when you show them the benefits of the PC ecosystem (Steam sales/alternate store platforms, no online fees, modular hardware, etc…), it is entirely possible to convince people to convert (I’ve done so myself), and they find joy in learning.
Additionally, there are solutions to the problems you listed that aren’t a flat out “won’t run” (Windows 10 IOT Enterprise LTSC comes to mind for a less bloated experience for those locked games, for instance), and while no solution is perfect, let us not make perfect the enemy of good here. Console users are fed up with their circumstances. Let us inspire them to join the other side, not feud.
I’m not trying to rain on anything. I’m just injecting some reality. It’s very approachable but you have to know how to research solutions occasionally, which is a pretty low bar. Nothing is flawless, not even consoles.
The deck is an amazing thing that is making PC gaming way more approachable for countless people all over the world. It’s something with a lot more support than any typical gaming PC build.
ProtonDB/Proton has been an amazing resource for streamlining gaming in the linux world, which I believe is the future of gaming some day.
I get you’re trying to dump buckets of rain on our entire thread here, but can you acknowledge that educating and inviting console users to the PC platform is beneficial for those users and the community as a whole?
There are definitely those who you can’t teach, can’t convince, who are too stubborn to believe there’s any other way than paying eighty dollars for games and spending hundreds of dollars on already obsolete hardware with a mandated walled garden.
However, there are many users who are simply not educated rather than inept, and when you show them the benefits of the PC ecosystem (Steam sales/alternate store platforms, no online fees, modular hardware, etc…), it is entirely possible to convince people to convert (I’ve done so myself), and they find joy in learning.
Additionally, there are solutions to the problems you listed that aren’t a flat out “won’t run” (Windows 10 IOT Enterprise LTSC comes to mind for a less bloated experience for those locked games, for instance), and while no solution is perfect, let us not make perfect the enemy of good here. Console users are fed up with their circumstances. Let us inspire them to join the other side, not feud.
I’m not trying to rain on anything. I’m just injecting some reality. It’s very approachable but you have to know how to research solutions occasionally, which is a pretty low bar. Nothing is flawless, not even consoles.
The deck is an amazing thing that is making PC gaming way more approachable for countless people all over the world. It’s something with a lot more support than any typical gaming PC build.
ProtonDB/Proton has been an amazing resource for streamlining gaming in the linux world, which I believe is the future of gaming some day.