It's already been a year since I got a PC! I have always been a Mac kid. I don't really know why, to be honest! I think it was (and honestly, still is) very solid as a productivity machine. I still use my Mac Mini to make music, even. But I felt the draw of a PC calling to me, especially as I began to stream more frequently. I have a system where if I obsess over something for longer than a week, I decide to stop deliberating and grab it, because I know my dumb ass isn't going to let it go until I do. So I weighed my options, and finally grabbed a NZXT Streaming Plus PC - now called *The Player Two*, apparently. I was actually on a trip for work in Vegas when I grabbed it, so it was waiting for me the day I landed. Since then the PC has pretty much been my main driver for games. My Switch and PS5 gather dust outside of a few exclusives. My Steam account has been the most active it's ever been, and I've overall had a pretty great experience. Let's talk about why! --- ## Streaming is a Lot Easier This is good, given it's the main reason I purchased the dang thing. Streaming is sooooo much easier on a PC. Handling audio is easier, multi-tasking is easier, and I can run my streams at a higher quality at the same time. It's made it so that I barely touch my Elgato (although it doesn't help that the Elgato is trash too lol). ## PC + Steam Deck Compatibility I meant to do a review of the Steam Deck on this blog, but tl;dr: it's great and I'm a big fan. That said, one of the cool things about the PC is that there's Steam Cloud integration. So I can do a bunch of Nioh 2 on my computer, and then swap over to play some more on my Deck on the go / on my couch / in bed. It's like going from handheld to docked mode on the Switch, except when I switch to "docked" mode my specs increase by like 1000x. It's pretty neat! ## PC + Xbox Compatibility Because I have an Xbox I can kind of do the same thing here, although in a more "limited" capacity. Since games have compatible saves between the PC and the Xbox, I can play something on GamePass on my PC, and then swap over to it on my TV. It's not a huge deal, but it is nice, especially because there's good stuff on GamePass. ## Hanging with the Homies It's much, *much* easier to hang out with homies on the PC. We can spin up games on Discord and Guilded, and because it's my PC, I can easily use my nice mic too. It helps that most games have crossplay as well. ## I can put Stickers on it Not important. Or rather, incredibly important.