PC Gaming

You can always dual-boot, i.e. have both Windows and Linux... or multiple Linux installations, if you please.

Start with Linux Mint for greater stability and familiarity. Soon enough you'll learn that distributions are basically fancy pre-packaged collections and configurations of mostly the same applications (they're also called packaged), which should make choosing your distribution a bit easier. There are differences, of course, but you'll need a deeper knowledge and more of a nuanced list of requirements before it starts to matter much, so don't stress about comparing them and choosing "the best" for you - you'll always be able to switch the entire distribution or reconfigure your own to fit your specific needs surprisingly easily.

The latency makes any sort of fast paced game difficult. I can play platformers or turn based strategy games, but something like Fortnite is unplayable.

I'm with you, I have a pretty high end gaming PC up in my office and honestly if rather game on my PS5, from my bed. It's soooooo cozy.

Yeah.. PC gaming does not imply keyboard and mouse. You can use whatever controllers you want.

It also doesn't imply sitting on an office chair in front of a monitor.

I use my PC to game on the TV, from the couch with a controller all the time.

While I do understand the sentiment that consoles are more convenient than PCs, there's nothing stopping you from using a PC as if it's a console. I game on PC 99% of the time, I almost never play with KB+M, and my PC is connected to my 55'' LG C2 in my living room right alongside my ps5. This obviously doesn't stop you from having to deal with dumb pc troubleshooting if you want to do one of the miriad of goofy ass things PCs can do with some technical know how on your part. But if you're just going to be buying modernish games on steam I don't think you're experience is going to be all that different from gaming on a console. It's just a different box running a different OS that isn't tightly controlled (from a storefront perspective) by Sony.

Plus you get the benefit of playing games from basically every generation of gaming on one box.

I regret not buying the PS4 Pro when my old PS4 died, because the PS5 is just PS4 Pro V2. It seems like every game is still cross gen and we’re 4 years since release.

Smartphones can be magnificently capable devices. It's the industry that is Hamas.

Smartphones have one major benefit - you basically always have your phone with you. Even if the games are crappy, you always have the option to play. Emulation on Android also opens you up to decades of games to play.

Normies do not give a fuck, they'll play whatever exploitative microtransaction purchase simulator that Big Corpo feeds them and say "yes daddy more!" and pretend they're not being had.