[wlesieutre]

But how often do you not turn your PC on for a month? That's much more common with consoles.

Steam is running all the time when my computer is on (and I use my computer every day), and games just keep themselves up to date. For a given game that I'm trying to play, there's maybe a 15 minute period every couple of months when I wouldn't be able to launch it immediately.

The Windows updates aren't required in order to play games, and they can just be delayed until the next time you're restarting. Not a huge deal there.

[Argorak]

Very often. I don't have a regular gaming habit, that applies to both my gaming enviroment (strictly speaking, the Windows side of my mac) and my console.

For the console, btw.: all of them support nightly updates, so I rarely have the problem there.

[rexf]

My gaming PC is used occaisionally, and I do not leave it on when not in use. My day to day computer usage is a separate machine running OSX.

The worst was when my Windows machine would restart itself in the middle of gaming to install updates, but luckily you can turn that off.