I didn’t play much myself, but I believe one thing can be said: if you don’t like keyboard-heavy controls, go for the steam version
It has a more modern UI and graphics, even though you could get some of the features (or all of them), you’d need to spend some time setting up thr mods
I would disagree on the basis that Linux upgrades don’t require hardware upgrades (unless you have a very low end hardware that’s hanging by a thread already)
For example, I don’t remember seeing all this fuss about upgrading when people were moving from 8.1 to 10 (but it could just be me on my bubble)