> do you mean typing? I see what you did there :) Funny thing is, for one person I know, lots of typing was a barrier to him transitioning from gaming to pro

> do you mean typing? I see what you did there :) Funny thing is, for one person I know, lots of typing was a barrier to him transitioning from gaming to programming. He's long ago overcome that! But tinkering with software to modify its behaviour - hacking - is what OP must mean. The general-purposeness of PCs facilitates that much more than the major consoles do.