This article does a good job of talking about how poor the windows experience on a handheld is, and why SteamOS could dominate handheld devices if windows doesn’t start to make serious changes to improve it’s useability and performance.

To be clear, I don’t want to see windows succeed here, I would absolutely love to see SteamOS take over the handheld space and be a real linux ambassador to show people that they do have other choices than windows for their computers.

  • @TheGrandNagusEnglish
    43•4 months ago

    It’s testament to Microsoft’s incompetence that they still haven’t got an “Xbox handheld OS” so-to-speak, or at the very least offered a trimmed down windows with an Xbox UI frontend to handheld OEMs.

    The Steam Deck is a success, there’s other handhelds on the market (a common review criticism often being how poor windows works on them), Sony is in discussions with AMD for hardware for a handheld (albeit it’s a long way off).

    MS’s incompetence in gaming is staggering.

    • @[email protected]
      3•4 months ago

      Something like their Surface tablets turned into a gaming machine would be interesting. But they probably wouldn’t be priced competitively.