I really can't agree here. I got back into PC gaming 1.5 years ago and had my fair share of problems. While there where small for me, almost everyone else of my gaming friends would have surrendered. Just two of them, both IT and IT Sec students are into PC gaming, too.
I don't want to get into the whole build and setup process, as this is something that could be skipped by someone less skilled. These are the problems I've encountered with the games I played in the last 1.5 years with a slightly OCd 6700K, R9 390 and 16GB RAM and an Xbox One controller:
- Alan Wake
Crashed during first cut scene, had to install old GPU driver version.
- American Truck Simulator / Euro Truck Simulator
Controller support is a pain in the ass. I had to map every button myself and the controller needs to be connected before you start the game, otherwise it just acts weird.
- Banished
Random crashes all over the place. Havent found a solution and thus stopped playing.
- BioShock Remastered
Bad performance, crashes all over the place. I was playing this with my girlfriend and after 2 hours she asked me if we just could hook up the PS3 again and play it there.
- Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
Keyboard/Mouse support disastrous, button prompts for controller missing or something, I dont really remember it but I just know that Ive stopped after 2 hours and people told me that I needed to mod the game.
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Bad performance, weird mouse acceleration, lots of crashes and one reproducible crash during the last fight which prevented my to finish the game. Three patches later the game wouldnt even start anymore.
- DOOM Demo
Crash after starting the game. After I couldnt find a solution online I digged trough the files and found some .ini or something which said that it starts with Vulkan enabled. Set it to DirectX and it went just fine.
- Dying Light
My GPU makes a really highpitched noise in the menu and my PC crashes after about 20 seconds. If I make it into the game in time its all fine though. Due to a bad V-Sync implementation it also locked to 30 FPS when it dropped below 60, I tried every trick there is until a friendly Neogaf user helped me with this: Alt-tab out of the game so that the Windows build-in V-Sync can take over, enjoy 3x buffering from here on with smooth frame rates.
- Live is Strange
Crashes. Everywhere.
- No Mans Sky
Crash during title screen. Refund.
- Project Cars
Really bad performance with 4 karts in bland looking tracks, like FPS in the low 40s but locked 60 with lots of cars in the rain on the Grüne Hölle. Couldnt make it through the first kart races due to bad performance and stopped playing the game.
And thats just me looking at my steam catalogue. Ive probably missed some. Im not complaining though, I chose to game on a PC and knew about the problems it comes with. But I would never ever recommend PC gaming to my less tech-savvy friends, because it doesnt just work. Yes, everyone could learn about the basics of hardware and simple OS administration. Its the same with learning a new language or know how to fix your car - everyone could do it. I speak 3 languages fluently but can barely manage to change my car lights or battery. For everything else I just have friends, whose Windows laptops I fix in exchange. I'm sure I could learn more about my car but but I don't really see the benefits other than saving some money in exchange for my free time.
My two car-friends and I play all on consoles together. I would never recommend them to start PC gaming, as they would never recommend me to buy a project car.