PC gaming will never be as smooth as console gaming. While it is something to strive for and demand that developers don't do sloppy ports or release broken games. The freedom to upgrade components, mod games, run with insane graphics fidelity, maintain a level of backwards compatibility for years (or decades), run emulators and do real work does come at cost in stability and ease of use.
It's disingenuous to claim PC gaming is some sort of wreck when it clearly is not the case. Games in fact, do just install and work. Default auto-detected graphic settings are typically good enough for the system you're on. Very rarely do you need to do anything besides installing the game.
It's disingenuous to claim PC gaming is some sort of wreck when it clearly is not the case. Games in fact, do just install and work. Default auto-detected graphic settings are typically good enough for the system you're on. Very rarely do you need to do anything besides installing the game.