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InnerScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

prebuilt plug-and-play

Considering that building a pc isn’t more than plugging in all the parts, I’d say “building your own PC” very much is plug-and-play.

Not saying everyone can do it but “prebuilt plug-and-play” isn’t the wording I’d use.

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Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s a lot more than that, it’s:

Knowing what parts to buy, I don’t think most average people can cite every piece in a desktop

Selecting parts that are compatible, try plug-and-play an AMD CPU on an Intel MOBO.

Selecting parts that fit the chassis you selected, unless you went with a full ATX that’s a concern.

Now that you bought the components:

Knowing to ground yourself before doing anything, currently I’m getting static shocks daily where I live, if I didn’t know about this I could very easily fry a RAM by picking it up wrong.

Cable management is not easy, most cheaper chassis don’t have enough or dedicated space for it.

Correct amount of thermal paste is something lots of people get wrong.

Some pieces require strength to lock in place, others break if you even look at them sideways.

Now that you’ve assembled everything:

Installing OS

Installing drivers

Installing Steam

Depending on your OS and controller of choice pairing controller and getting it to work could be difficult

I’m not saying that assembling a computer is hard, but is definitely far from plug-and-play, and not something I would recommend for someone without technical knowledge who just wants something to play games.
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SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
That’s the wording a lot of other people would use, I’d say. I wouldn’t be able to put together a PC, and most people I know are like that. I have maybe two cousins that can. But we’d probably all agree that plug-and-play means that you buy something and it works just like that. For example, a refrigerator is likely plug and play, because you don’t expect to have to put together the components to make it work. You just plug it in and it works.

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