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Playtron's Linux-based gaming OS aims to be a cheap, versatile option for handheld gaming PCs (and other systems) - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

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[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

I've got some points about this one.

they pitch a "deck that could actually play Fortnite" - game from a company who's CEO actively hates linux for whatever reason (maybe it kicked his dog, I dunno)
they talk how games bought on stores other than Steam will be "first-class citizens" which... you can already do on Steam Deck
they promote being free of hackers/cheaters because of immutable file system... something Steam Deck also has (though they do mention some additional digital signatures)
they want to be not only on handhelds but everywhere (laptops, tablets, phones, TV, cars...) - pretty ambitious for a company that didn't deliver anything yet
it'll be running on an ARM processor - we'll see how this works out (has anyone tried making a handheld like this?)
already mentioned no desktop mode - why is this mentioned as a positive exactly?
they want help from linux power users (feature requests, contribute code) but they don't know how open-source they want to be
they stole Witcher 3 video from some dude on YouTube

I'd like to think these are just screw ups/growing pains but nothing I've seen so far gives me any good vibes about it. We definitely need more choice and competition - this however does not look like an honest attempt at that. Let's hope I'm wrong.

Edit: Ah, how could I forget! Kirt McMaster, CEO of Playtron and the man responsible for killing CyanogenMod. Sounds great...

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As far as the arm processor goes, there are a ton of Android handhelds on the market. Obviously an android gaming handheld though is limited compared to something like the steam deck, but ARM processors are a lot more power efficient than x86 processors which is great for handhelds.

There are projects like box86 that are trying to get traditional PC games running on Linux ARM hardware, I'm guessing they'll be the core of what Playtron is working around.

If Playtron contributes to that project, it could actually be really good for the future of Linux. That said I'm worried that nothing will actually come from this project, or that they won't upstream their improvements. I suspect the future of PC's will be ARM or RISC, so any projects that improve ARM backwards compatibility with x86 will be good for the future.

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I was mostly thinking about ones that can play PC games as Android ones are kind of their own thing. Box86 seems like an interesting project but I'm wondering how feasible it is for a project like this - do you have any experience with it and if so, is there any noticeable performance hit when playing?

I'm certainly interested in the possible power efficiency improvements coming from such project so I hope my initial response turns out to be just an unreasonable wariness when this thing comes out. All we can do is wait for now, I guess.

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