Comment on Hands-On with the Retroid Pocket Classic; A Love Letter to the Game Boy Era
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 week agoSo I do casually follow the handheld emulation stuff. I’ve always thought android sucks as a platform for gaming in general, but shouldn’t all of those retroid problems apply to the ayn thor? My assumption is that people are in love with that thing, but maybe the boot times are just better or they did a better job of the driver/power management?… or maybe the marketing is just on point.
I have a deck so I don’t really see a point to having another handheld, but I still want to understand why x vs y.
Also am full time linux on desktop os at home and work and I can definitely see how the boot and sleep state times would be much better just in general on a properly tweaked distro.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The Thor is more like a mini Steam Deck replacement instead of a Gameboy replacement. So the limitations of boot times and standby time aren’t seen as a problem when the alternative is a laptop.