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Comment by givemeethekeys | Hacker News Reader

Between Windows being so unbearably bloated and no way to make anti-cheat really work on Linux, it looks like the consoles win!

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Or you could miss out on like... 5 games. Competitive games on a controller would be a much larger trade off than dual booting to me.

On Xbox at least Keyboard / Mouse support is decent. I played Fortnite and Minecraft this way for a while.

Personal preference, but I'd far rather have a separate device dedicated to gaming than my kernel hacked by anti cheat.

https://www.purexbox.com/guides/all-xbox-games-with-mouse-an...

The only games on that list that doesn't run on Linux I can spot are Call of Duty and Fortnite.

The problem is that consoles also tend to have much worse support for modding.

On my PC I can play basically every game ever made in all of human history, minus maybe 7 that use kernel level anti cheat, and a couple PS5 and PS4 exclusives.

Other than that I have emulation plus a steam library. I'll take that over a locked in console that can only play 2 generations of games any day!

Edit: I'm not sure why the person who replied to me asking about emulators was nuked, emulators are still legal everywhere as far as I know. Anyway tldr go check out emudeck's GitHub repo to see a good list of emulators for basically every platform.

> I'm not sure why the person who replied to me asking about emulators was nuked...

Wow. They're so nuked, I can't even vouch for them. "Good" to know that's possible on HN, I guess.

No modding and higher prices of games on consoles though.

This is a big, missing piece for sure. I suppose for competitive games though, it's okay to not be able to mod, and for everything else, we have PC's.

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