Decisions, Decisions...

What mods are those doing my first play through of dai now sorry for off topic

Yeah, that would be streaming.  Probably won't ever do it since I have both consoles, but it does sound like a cool feature, which will no doubt requires tweaks over time.

I've been close to caving to Mac a few times over the years, but I stayed strong. The majority of my gaming buddies (PC) swear by Linux, but i'm too lazy to do anything with it besides dick around. I don't really trust myself with open source either and Linux is a bottomless chasm of death in that regard. With that said any gaming catalog going "supernova" is worth a look.

I have a gaming PC and an Xbox One. I pre-ordered for the PC because I prefer the experience: fps, graphics and modding if wanted, kb+m are more comfortable to me than a controller, but I plan on getting it for the Xbone eventually as well.

One of the biggest issues is forced obsolescence; perfectly functional versions of the OS just stop getting any updates (not even security patches) making them unsafe to use. User applications also arbitrarily stop functioning on whichever version of the OS the vendor wants. It's as though the user is pressured from all sides to regularly buy a new Mac every couple of years -- which is what happens on the phone market, of course, but at least there the rationale for upgrade is usually that there's a steady increase in the hardware's capabilities that make the handhelds more and more capable with every revision. PCs have attained that 'do-everything-workstation' status long ago; for everyday use a 12 year old Core Duo laptop is still pretty much OK nowadays.

Also Apple's hardware updates on the laptop lines were making less and less sense, at the time when I finally stopped checking. For a few years after they transitioned to Intel, the price/performance balance was pretty good too, but nowadays the entire line seems to be overpriced.



People who just want to get some tasks done on a computer rightly want the OS to become transparent; Linux distros have been making huge progress 'getting out of the user's way' lately; but to be perfectly honest I still can't recommend a total switch if the user isn't prepared to 'look under the hood' every once in a while. Testing out whether you like the system is pretty easy, though; just get Oracle VirtualBox, and download a live dvd from distros that make it available (Ubuntu might be the most straightforward. I'm an openSUSE guy; but openSUSE doesn't come with the multimedia codecs etc. ready, for example.), so you can just launch a full session without any sort of installation, and tinker with the virtual system without fear of damaging anything on the real system.