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[–] [email protected] 153 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Good to see someone using Linux for their platform on these handhelds. The big reason I don't want to try the Ally or whatever the others are doing is I can't imagine Windows is making the experience better.

I don't really have evidence to support that, but more Linux investment is better overall.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

As a long time hand held user, Windows is dog shit (I mean, in general, too)

I stopped buying handhelds because of how many problems they had, until I got a steam deck. Now I'm back to being super interested in the market.

GPD Win's were cool for what they were, but so many trivial issues related to windows.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

https://ayaneo.com/article/806

Here is from their website which also says "AYANEO NEXT LITE comes pre-installed with the SteamOS gaming system for the first time".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's interestingly an 800p display also.

Someone is actually paying attention LOL

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Of all the things I would upgrade on the deck, resolution isn't one of them. I have never seen a game look blury on that tiny screen. That said, a lot of them are using higher res panels probably because it is what they can find in bulk.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Text intensive games are hard to read at times on the deck. Magnifier helps, but not ideal. Games like Against the Storm or some digital board games would benefit from higher resolution.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I always felt that was down to screen size more than resolution.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Any word on what the hardware specs are? Someone there used their brain and loaded up SteamOS, but the hardware needs to be worth the jump or it’s just a steam deck clone.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

They specifically said "it's not a powerhouse". It's supposed to be a lower power device with a big battery, capable of playing less demanding games for a long time. SteamOS also makes a lot of sense for this goal, since windows handhelds get pretty terrible battery life in low power games. The price is supposed to be low as well, although it's not clear yet if that's just low by Ayaneo's standards or if it will actually be cheaper than the deck.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Sweet. It will be a great opportunity to see what SteamOS can do on non-valve hardware.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Note: There is currently no confirmation that Valve is involved with supplying the SteamOS image to Ayaneo.

Probably running modified Chimera, is my guess.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But honestly, I kind of hope Valve is involved, beating windows at this part of the market is going to do great for Linux and maybe set a precedent for other handheld makers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

They definitely should be cooperating just for the sake of ensuring updates to drivers, etc, are pushed upstream and maintained properly. It makes OS updates much easier for them when they don't need to recompile and tweak stuff every single time they pull Valve's most recent kernel updates and whatnot

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

Was about time! 😆

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting choice to include Aperture Desk Job onscreen in this shot

https://cdn.ayaneo.com/ayaneo/article/2024/01/10/44f72202401101825288542.png

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Why do you say that? It works on PCs. All you need is a controller. The game adapts to the controls you have and the ones you lack.

For example, on my Steam Controller, when it asks you to press the four buttons on the back, pressing the two paddles on the SC emulates the Deck's two on one side and two on the other.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Except it's not. It's been clarified that it's using HoloISO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Close enough.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Finally a Deck rival I might actually be interested in.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What happens to AyaneoOS then?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

From what I heard, they decided to use SteamOS instead. They wanted to avoid "fragmentation", although I'm not sure that would really be a concern for Linux.

I imagine steamOS is going to be a more polished experience than AyaneoOS would have been, and hopefully have better support/updates.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

what likely happened is they l9oked at the work they would need to do, then looked at the outcome they would get, compared that against SteamOS and concluded that slightly rebranding it would be the better option (think custom boot splash, maybe more launchers pre-installed)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Great news and I'm sure that more will follow.

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