> dealing with yet another layer of extra fuckery
I agree, that throwing Wine or whatever they have like that these days, Proton and whatnot, into the mix does add another layer of complexity, but examining Wine's logs at least makes sense if you want to figure out why something doesn't work, with Windows it's: "Deal with it, it just doesn't — get another game". I can show you my numerous attempts at contacting EA or UbiSoft support — they literally never go beyond "Update you videocard drivers", they are never able to help you with something more complex than their textbook set of issues.
Therefore my original point is that is you want a completely effortless experience, consoles are the way to go. PC master race style remarks that you just have to get yourself a good rig are a load of crap IMO — some features of top of the line hardware never get utilized outsize of tech demos, developers seldomly care enough to even optimize for that because most of their customers use high to medium settings anyway, never ultra . You spend $20k on latest-greatest only to discover more bugs that you never encounter with lower settings and feel yourself fucked over. In most of the cases with PC gaming you get exactly the same experience as with consoles, but with more fuckery. Of course not all genres are suitable to be played with a controller, but come on — even indie shit is already on there.
Another problem is dealing with insane amounts of DRM bullcrap, with Windows you're only knee-deep in this shit, not all the way, but even this changes for the worse too. And fast!
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