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New Windows gamepad keyboard will soon make typing on Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally more like the Steam Deck

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Rekall_Incorporated@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.notebookcheck.net/New-Windows-gamepad-keyboard-will-soon-make-typing-on-Legion-Go-Asus-ROG-Ally-more-like-the-Steam-Deck.900405.0.html

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just a low-effort regurgitation of a MS blog post to then sell you on an ROG Ally X affiliate link at the end. I love modern online journalism.

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  • refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hard to replicate the typing experience on the Deck when the hardware doesn’t have dual trackpads.

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    • Corigan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I should read the comments before posting. I had the same thought.

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  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With it, you can use your Xbox controller to move around the screen and type.

    Does that mean you couldn’t before? Seriously people were playing around on a handheld that couldn’t even type?

    Button accelerators are also available; these include the X button for backspace and the Y button for the spacebar.

    WTF!? Isn’t that standard also?

    For better movement patterns, the keyboard keys are aligned vertically."

    Does this even make a difference?

    In any case, the title is bullshit, it should be that will make windows handhelds close to typing on consoles which sucks. Typing on the Deck is a completely different experience, one that can’t be replicated in any of these handhelds because they lack the hardware to do so.

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  • Corigan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll never get a hand held gaming PC with out track pads. So fucking useful and add so many more games you can play comfortably.

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  • Boinkage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Smells like shill in here

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are probably some games that this would work well for, but I’m not sure that it’d be a great replacement the way a physical thumb keyboard is for texting or the like.

    Most present-day games that I can think of that I play use the keyboard as a grid of buttons. They expect to have your hand over the thing – often the left hand, with the right on the mouse – to let you be able to push multiple buttons quickly.

    I’m not usually doing much text entry, which is what I’d expect a thumb keyboard to work well with.

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