I agree that PC is better than console and that consoles are basically dead at this point, but I fucking hate the culture behind the "PC Master Race" with a passion.

Why? Because they are the most entitled, spoiled, rotten pieces of shit in the gaming community. They are like those fast-food customers who place the most ridiculous special orders, or the upper middle class to rich people who can only watch movies in a home theater set-up. They won't play a game unless they can play it on max settings with the most perfect frame-rate.

This is also one of the many factors that is preventing the "year of the Linux desktop". Even if they game already has a Linux port that is perfectly playable, I know a lot of people who out-right refuse to play on Linux because "the game runs better on Windows" (and by "better" they mean only a slight framerate increase). Let's see if that attitude still stands when Windows goes full SaaS and requires you to be micro-chipped in order to activate it.

I could go on. I also don't like their obsession with RGB lighting on everything and making their computers look like they were designed by aliens. How are you supposed to sleep at night if you are someone who keeps their computer in their bedroom?

I've been PC gaming since I started gaming, and I have always been perfectly content with a mid-ranged PC or even a toaster if I'm just sticking with indies and emulators. No RGB lights, no fancy keyboards or mice, no curved monitors. I really wouldn't have it any other way outside the inability to emulate 7th gen games.

@xianc78 Games literally run better on linux if they have a proper port of proton works fine lol. The only games which consistently dont work on linux are MP games with rootkit tier anti cheat and VR. As a single player gamer gaming on linux is 100% viable even with modern games. Most "gamers" just arent techies and MS has speant years slandering Linux as this scary thing where you have to code your own PC and shit. Your average gamer probably doesnt even know that linux has a DE lol. I shocked my informatics friends by showing them how clean KDE plasma is lol to them linux was literally just a command line.
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@KaiserKitty I never made that associated even back when I used Windows. As a kid, Linux was presented to me as the mythical operating system that I always hear about but never see anyone use. I had no idea what it looked like until my brother tried an Ubuntu Live DVD.

The most common complaint I hear about Linux from Windows PC gamers is that installing programs is not what they are used to. I guess EXEs are just more user friendly than packages.

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@xianc78 Installing games is the same basically since steam handles it all for you. You just need to enable one setting and proton auto starts all games without even a Wine Prompt showing up. The only big intial hurdle is learning how to get non free drivers and steam on your distro but in any mainstream distro its just a matter of adding a few repos (which many distros even auto mate at start up like fedora opens up with a button you can click to enable the major third party repos).
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