After installing bazzite, the experience was near identical to running windows if all I ever did was play games from my steam library. If anything it was a little better, fallout 4 in particular perfoms much better.
The problems creep in if it’s not a dedicated gaming system, or if you want to do atypical things like install mod managers. Easy enough with a walkthrough but I can see where that would scare off the non technically inclined. However judging from your description of your friend it doesn’t sound like he was doing any of that anyway.




It’s not often you see IPv5