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by drivingmenuts 2649 days ago
Most of the long, grindy AAA games are on Windows only, so really, not much worries there.

I have yet to see a game listed in the App Store that wasn't also on Steam, so I'm not worried about that either.

Apple may be good at many things, but games is not one of them. There's not enough bang for your buck on the Mac platform when it comes to gaming and you can't easily and cheaply mix-n-match your hardware like you can with Windows.

I love Mac for everything else, but if I going to seriously game, I will buy a Windows box and use it for that only (well, and running Linux in a VM - for reasons).

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I'm doing my PC gaming exclusively in linux now a days with steam+proton helping out a lot.

Just bought sekiro on friday and it runs like a dream without me having to configure a thing.

Yeah, Linux gaming is in a good shape & projects like https://lutris.net make it seriously accessible for anyone without further configuration on their part.
My needs are based on only occasionally needing to run a Linux VM but running games more often. More like an XBox that isn’t locked down. I’d be paying way more for hardware and the cost of buying Win 10 isn’t that expensive anymore.