If you only play single player games you don’t have to pay for anything but your games. But aside from that, it’s a homogenous platform. Everyone has a completely even playing field. The game will work the same for every user. It’s much easier to fix bugs when you can fix it once and fix it for everyone, unlike on PC where you can have different operating systems, hardware, even CPU architecture. And the different, inconsistent drivers for it all. And any other programs that might be running. Is a bug a fault of the game, the operating system, the hardware? It’s much more difficult to tell.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both.

Consoles are super easy. I bought my Xbox Series X a little over five years ago. All of my saves from all of my games from Xbox 360 and Xbox One just work. I sit on the couch, pick the controller, turn it on and start to play. My kids know how to use it. If they want to play a game in my library, they just install it and start to play.

Bazzite (and I guess SteamOS) makes things easier, but you still need to set everything up yourself. Games sometimes don’t work. Sometimes launching a game takes you to a separate launcher that doesn’t work with the controller. Cloud saves for games are unreliable. You must always be on your toes for when you suddenly need a keyboard and a mouse. On a console you do absolutely everything with a controller from your couch.