I don't understand why people choose laptops

[NessaWyvern]

I'll never understand why someone would choose to game on a laptop over a desktop.

I've had friends, and even dated a girl for several years who gamed almost exclusively on a laptop.

I would love to have a desktop myself, but I game on a laptop.
Desktops are rarer and far more expensive in my country, and the stores here hardly advertise any desktops. I would have to order parts from the states and build it myself, but I am not tech savvy at all. My laptop was pretty convenient when I visited my husbands family in the states though.

It plays well, but I am getting sick of how hot it gets, and the framerate drop that results when I play it for a few hours