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Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox has an AMD chip inside and is ‘not locked to a single store’ (www.theverge.com)
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[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (18 children)

Oh, sure. Agreed that at the time the proton Linux ecosystem was pretty under developed.

But to be excited now about a windows handheld is a whole other story, specially because of the battery as stated.

Unless you want to play TFT on the handheld for some god forsake reason I see no point on it being windows. But I ditched widows for all my PCs and I'm very tech savvy so I'm biased.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (17 children)

Microsoft is likely to develop a stripped down version of Windows for those handhelds. Windows isn’t fundamentally incapable of low overhead and Xbox runs something similar.

As to why you’d want to use Windows even if you’re tech savvy there are loads of reasons:

  • Native access to other digital storefronts (Valve wants to lock you in with Steam Deck)
  • Microsoft treats backwards compatibility and long term support seriously, unlike Valve that has a history of abandoning things when they no longer found them immediately profitable
  • There are plenty of games with kernel-level anti-cheat that won’t work with Wine/Proton ever
  • Wine/Proton compatibility isn’t good enough to replace Windows
  • Valve pushes Proton so heavily that developers stopped creating native Linux ports so the above is unlikely to change anytime soon

But there are also good reasons to go with SD like very very good VRR screen utilisation (Xbox is also good at this so maybe there’s hope for Windows).

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never thought I'd downvote you

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Never thought I’d give people a valid reason to.

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