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1. Nobody chooses Microsoft - it's rammed down their throats by corp IT or gaming addiction. 2. Alternatives are $3000 macs with 1% of the ecosystem, or an enthusiast OS that doesn't work with the most popular graphics card vendor and constantly breaks.

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SteamOS (via Steam Deck) is surprisingly amazing for gaming. Most of the titles I tried worked perfectly fine without any configuration changes.

I haven't felt the need to use Windows for years now thanks to this.

> enthusiast OS that doesn't work with the most popular graphics card vendor

It's not exactly there yet (especially that you need some technical knowledge to troubleshoot stuff). But I am getting similar performance playing games on Linux that I would be getting on Windows.

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