I read it as needing a Microsoft account, and having to accept Microsft's terms and conditions, in order to contribute to an unrelated (and probably open-source) project. That's a valid complaint.
Microsoft's approach to their OS seems to be, "constantly add more stuff that relatively few people want or need, and require everyone to buy new hardware to support it." The resulting upgrade cycle is needlessly wasteful of people's money and harmful to the environment.
Meanwhile, the Linux ecosystem is more like, "make new stuff available, but optional, and constantly optimize things to be more efficient."
I was still gaming and developing software on a ten-year-old computer (with a somewhat newer GPU) until very recently. I'll let you guess which OS I was using.
I wish more people in situations like yours would make it public, and more media and political attention was given to it. Long Covid is a big problem, it's still growing, and it's only going to get worse if we don't start investing significantly in prevention and support.
LTT's analysis is often haphazard, poorly informed, or both. Predictably, that leads to a high rate of bad conclusions. Linus Sebastian in particular seems to put sensationalism above all else, and he overestimates his understanding of computer systems. I would not recommend his advice to anyone.
I can't speak for other people, though. Maybe someone else will chime in with other reasons.
I don't watch much of this kind of content (I prefer text) but from what I have seen, Gamers Nexus is a superior channel.
Troubleshooting software is a deep rabbit hole. Troubleshooting modern games, made for a complex operating system like Windows and running on another operating system, is a very deep rabbit hole.
However, since you're just launching games through Steam, you probably won't have to go very deep. This would be a pretty good place to start:
However, its very purpose is to emulate the Windows runtime environment. Translating API calls is only part of that. Also, the project abandoned that silly backronym years ago.
So kindly leave people alone when they refer to it emulating, or as an emulator, or something that emulates. They're not wrong.
We recently learned that covid causes neurons to fuse. This suggests that over time, a society that doesn't take precautions against spreading it will become stupider and develop a significantly higher rate of mental and/or physical disorders.
We don't know how that will take shape, of course, but it reminds me of the prevalence of lead (e.g. from leaded gasoline) through a big chunk of the 20th century, and the corresponding IQ decline and violent crime rise among generations who spent much of their lives exposed to it.
I read it as needing a Microsoft account, and having to accept Microsft's terms and conditions, in order to contribute to an unrelated (and probably open-source) project. That's a valid complaint.