@null @echoplex21 for me personally I got the ROG Ally because of GamePass which I already had with my Xbox. Being able to play a bunch of PC games native has been great especially if they sync saves. Also the sheer amount of free games I got with Epic Game Store was also nice. Sure the UI isn’t the best (we really need a big picture mode for the Xbox app) but being able to play all these games without additional purchases was a no brainer.
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null@mastodon.nl 11 months ago
@echoplex21 Why the hell would anyone want a Windows PC gaming handheld - Steam Deck through Proton is the future. Sure, innovate on hardware but building something for windows systems is just paying license fees for shitty experiences. #brokenwindows #proton #steamdeck
zahrank21@mastodon.social 11 months ago
Maven@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Personally I just got a big SD card for my steam deck and now I can duel boot super easily between windows and SteamOS. Probably the best idea I’ve ever had.
emmanuel_car@kbin.social 11 months ago
duel boot
I’m imagining two cowboy boots at sunrise
some_guy@kbin.social 11 months ago
There’s not enough room in this drive for 2 partitions, partner…
Carighan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s an adversarial boot process where only one installation remains.
echoplex21@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Steam experience is actually pretty great on the Ally. They have the big picture mode which works really great.
Carighan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The notion that “Steam Deck through Proton is the future” just showcases that you wouldn’t be in a position to judge how to configure such a device in the planning phases of a multi-million company project.
It’s a nice enthusiast attitude, sure. And don’t get me wrong, us enthusiasts are important. But it’s also entirely delusional to think that you can have true mass-market appeal of these handhelds without them running Windows on them.
wren@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I have an Aya Neo, and honestly running Windows on it (after doing a reinstall without all the bloat), is pretty enjoyable. I get to run all my PC games no problem, emulators, and use it as a portable computer for other things (managing flipper zero files, that sort of thing)
Steam Deck os is pretty nifty too though, that’s for sure.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why buy a console when you can play the same games but at worse graphics for 45 minutes on a windows PC handheld?
I actually had a clamshell GPDWin2 that I used to play out of park baseball on in bed and it was perfect for that but I can’t image wanting it for real games. Inhome streaming is not worse than that unless you’ve cheaped out on your Wi-Fi and don’t wire in your main Pc/console.
thepineapplejumped@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Completely different topic, but if you put a hashtag on a Lemmy post or comment does it appear on Mastodon?
Gonna test it out, #testingthefuckoutofthis
BaronVonBourbon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think that only works if the post comes from Mastodon
thepineapplejumped@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You mean if it crossposted from Mastodon?
Rossel@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
If it’s posted from Mastodon. Mastodon users can navigate Lemmy posts.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can you play Gamepass games without Windows?
echoplex21@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Only through cloud which leaves a lot to be desired.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah if cloud was a real option just a phone would suffice.
520@kbin.social 11 months ago
The real question is "can you make playing gamepads games on Windows handhelds a not-shitty experience?"
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gamepass PC, VR, and quite a few anti-cheat systems (so online games) are still windows only.
I made the switch because those make up a very small percentage of my (PC) gaming but they are very much things that aren’t available with a linux based device.
520@kbin.social 11 months ago
Gamepass and anticheat I'll give you, though the latter is improving greatly, but using a handheld for a PC VR headset seems... impractical. Not to mention a cluster fuck of a liability
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Oculus (so Facebook) Quest works pretty well. And the very strong rumor is that the Deckard is (effectively) an HMD with a cable going to a steam deck with a big phat battery. And people have been using WMRs and even indexes with laptops for years.
I don’t think it is a super common use case, but it is very much a concern for the overall “why linux and not windows?”
520@kbin.social 11 months ago
The Quest works because it is a standalone device. You don't have to plug anything into the unit, you don't have to have wires everywhere, and you don't have a significant risk smashing the unit to the floor because you literally can't see where the cables are, what they're snagging on, etc.
Meanwhile, conventional VR setups get around this by the PC being heavier than a handheld, as well as possibly by being situated under the desks.
SatyrSack@lemmy.one 11 months ago
VR requires Windows?
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 11 months ago
SteamVR has no issues with Linux. But in the PC space, there are basically three major ecosystems for VR that basically interface between the HMD and SteamVR
So VR has no issues with Linux (because of SteamVR) but almost every single HMD does.