Yeah, I agree. I just didn’t have any idea about your other question, and you didn’t have any responses then so thought I should at least help assuage your PlayStation fears 😀

No arguments there.

They are machines, they can have any number of issues, but generally speaking, if a game is released on a console (and it works) then it will work for you too. No worrying about configs or system requirements.

No info about “how to make sure game is gonna run”, that is actually one of the reason I switched to console so many years ago.

BTW you don’t have to worry about not being able to play physical games on PS, even if it doesn’t come with optical drive by default, they will always sell the attachment. At least for next 2 or so generations (if not more), too many people with physical games exist.

Probably don’t want to antagonize MS, but don’t know how things work at this level, so just randomly guessing.

No idea tbh. I mainly play on consoles, and until a few days back I didn’t even know Xbox publishes game on Steam too. Will have to check protondb. Will take a look.

A bit off topic, but I have been using Arch for over a decade now, and it has been pretty stable for me. My only issue in last few years were if my kernel got updated which needed updated nvidia driver, and I rebooted before noticing that. (Very old laptop, so nvidia drivers for this aren’t in repos, hence the issue). I didn’t use it for gaming though (very old laptop, wouldn’t even run old games)

BTW I recently went the opposite way, have been using only Linux for over a decade but got a new laptop a month back and kept the windows as a dual boot, though my main interest is to use it only for MS/Xbox first party games, that don’t have Linux support. Saving me from buying a separate Xbox.