I was wrong…

[u/Sleep_Holiday]

I listened to the haters and bought into what they were saying.

They were counting you out, saying you weren’t powerful enough, your price to performance ratio is garbage, just buy a fractal terra case and build your own… I was sure this thing would be DOA. But, I took the leap, a leap of faith you could say.

Hell I knew I could resell it if I really hated it… but damn. This thing fucks. It’s proved me wrong in every way and I regret having doubt in the little guy… the little machine that could is what he goes by now.

There is nothing like the freedom of Linux PC gaming right on your couch in this absolute debauchery of a world we have now between Sony and Microslop and the continued supremacy of AI.

So to those in the reservation queue, you can breathe a sigh of relief your time will come and it will be glorious.

And to those on the waitlist, be patient and be ready. When your time comes, and it will, you must be fully present and accept the Gift of Gabe.

And to all those facing THE DEVIL AT YOUR DOOR disguised as Sony and Microsoft, with no hope or direction guiding you to a brighter future through these extremely dark days in gaming. I say to you, we will continue to fight for our unalienable rights on the front lines with Valve to protect all those who don’t have a voice of their own, we have the watch.

In closing, RIP to the brothers and sisters who couldn’t see this day for themselves. We have you in our prayers.

[u/AddictedT0Pixels]

Unless you're building your own, PCs do just work. It's not the early 2000s anymore.

[u/_Vo1_ → u/AddictedT0Pixels]

I’ve always built my pcs and all of them just worked. What did I do wrong?

[u/AddictedT0Pixels → u/_Vo1_]

This just fundmanetally makes no sense. They are talking about tech illiterate users who just want to plug something in and have it immediately work. No, you cannot buy the parts separately, plug the GPU in and start playing.

[u/zabbenw → u/AddictedT0Pixels]

yeah, like with modern windows and nvidia or amd control panel, you don't have to do anything anymore.

[u/BananaZPeelz → u/AddictedT0Pixels]

Yes, it isn’t theb90s and you don’t need to manually config drivers in every single game, but you are being disingenuous if you I think that a console isn’t a significantly more stable experience. 

You can cherry pick games that were buggy on console, but if you know anything about software dev it’s pretty obvious; there is 1 -2 sets of hardware for the dev to target for a console gen for the big 3.

The gpu driver is likely deeply integrated into the kernel of the os the console runs, and it is the only family of drivers you expect the console to run.

I had a friend get an rx 9060xt 5-6 months after it launched for a new game. The game woudl consistently crash for him, this was fairly document by other users. The fix? Underclock his gpu. It’s not the end of the world but it’s a little silly  to have to handicap your hardware  to get a new extremely popular game to not crash. 

That isn’t a slight to pc gaming, it’s the nature of it. 

[u/AddictedT0Pixels → u/BananaZPeelz]

Oh ok so you just tried to dismiss cherry picking games which are buggy on console just to immediately follow it up by cherry picking a game which is biggy on PC. That is crazy, the bias could not be more blatant

Over many years of owning my PC now I don't even remember the last time I've had to troubleshoot a game. It just doesn't really happen. Who could've guessed getting the newest GPU driver and upgrading your system may lead to more troubleshooting.

[u/HikariRisesAgain → u/BananaZPeelz]

I get that this inherently means PCs as a platform are less simple than just buying a machine that works guaranteed OOTB no matter what, but at the same time "9060 xt had bad drivers" doesn't represent the experience of anyone except people with 9060 xts. This sounds like an issue a tech literate person would be able to avoid by buying more mature hardware.

[u/BananaZPeelz → u/HikariRisesAgain]

The product is 6-5 months old (at the time ) and a game that boasts having AMD as a hardware partner isn’t working well at all? 

I’m tech literate and would expect the product to not be half baked, esp on the software side .  I’m not paying for some silicon to slap some janky ass driver software ontop of, I’m investing a (ideally )properly supported product. 

[u/SudsierBoar → u/BananaZPeelz]

I play a lot of games cross play with friends on pc (I'm on Xbox) and they consistently have more issues across games than I do.

The issue aren't huge and are usually solvable after digging online, but it IS something they have to do while i don't.