Comment by theshackleford

> At this point, the only valid excuses to stay on Windows, in my opinion

I didn’t see a performance increase moving to Linux for the vast majority of titles tested. Certainly not enough to outweigh the fact that I want EVERY game to work out of the box, and to never have to think if it will or won’t. And not all of my games did, and a not insignificant number needed serious tweaking to get working right.

I troubleshoot Linux issues all day long, I’ve zero interest in ever having to do it in my recreation time.

That’s a good enough reason for me to keep my windows box around.

I use Linux and OSX for everything that isn’t games, but windows functions just fine for me as a dumb console and I don’t seem to suffer any of these extreme and constant issues HN users seem to have with it from either a performance or reliability standpoint.