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Handheld PC makers are slowly losing touch with Valve's successful Steam Deck template of affordability, and that's very concerning (www.techradar.com)

submitted 5 days ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] zecg@lemmy.world 41 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Other manufacturers do not have that luxury.

They can find some margin in using a rolling Arch distro instead of paying for Windows, Gabe helpfully provided the template that you can reuse.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 5 days ago

Which if anything is other manufacturers benefiting from the R&D that Valve have done with Proton and just making it freely available to anyone.

[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I doubt Windows is the reason these are more expensive. Microsoft wants Windows in the handheld PC space, so they are likely to provide licenses for free and likely help subsidize the costs a bit, especially if they include trials for gamepass.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago

Except that Windows versions of the same handheld are more expensive.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

I am not aware that you are able to use SteamOS on anything that isnt an AMD CPU and GPU (only APU?).

If it's not yet generally available for any hardware combination it would be very tempting to switch.
Already used the desktop of the deck quite a bit to customize some behaviour (automatic start of syncthing after (game-mode) boot to sync save states to my PC, EmuDeck, emulators in general)