• cron@feddit.orgEnglish
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    23 days ago

    From what I saw, it’s more or less just a new app that starts when windows boots up. Plus some improvements like “the controller now works in UAC prompts” - which tells me that they didn’t really learn anything.

    • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      22 days ago

      it’s more or less just a new app

      You know a reason why Linux with Steam runs just way better than win? Because they use game scope, therefore not needing to render and run all of the desktop.

      So what does Microsoft do? They release a new app on top of the already bloated desktop.

    • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Nah. The ROG Ally X they already make with windows 11 and 1 TB is $800+tax. The ROG Ally that came before it was $700 and currently sells for like $400 or so.

      The 2TB Rog Ally X is about $1k + tax. I honestly doubt they can get people to pay more than that for a handheld, regardless of the Z2 chip. They are having trouble selling the ones they currently make. Add to this that Lenovo just launched the steam os variant of their newest handheld and it’s significantly cheaper.

  • BigTrout75@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    “Freedom of Windows” “Power of Xbox” Good stuff. We should make some more. “From a brand you can trust” "Pro gamers choose … " “Powered by Copilot and Game pass”

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        and copilot on a cheap handheld that cannot do anything except record you 24/7 and send it off to MS servers?

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            13 days ago

            I’d argue it’s outright bad, especially with MS headquartered in a country that already has the NSA recording everything, and now a fascist dictator in control of all of that recorded traffic.

    • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      English
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      22 days ago

      yea the full sentence makes more sense. “freedom of windows, power of xbox” implies it’s trying to compare to previous xbox experience, not other OS.

      Although still, never had a console, but I thought a gaming PC is usually more powerful than xbox though. Or I could get mad overthinking of what do they meam by power, what do they mean by freedom. This is why I often dont like marketing speak & just disregard it.

  • anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    22 days ago

    This got me thinking that Valve is the best competitor to Xbox. Instead of getting to release some walled garden, single store handheld they have to open it up to other stores because otherwise people would just buy a SteamDeck.

    But everyone who cares about handheld gaming already has a steam deck and this is going to be more expensive so I don’t see the point anyway.

      • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Again

        COMPARED TO CONSOLES? That’s basically paradise.

        Modern, unhacked and unmodded Consoles are:

        1. Completely locked down, not only do they not let you install applications not approved by the manufacturer, in reality you can ONLY buy them from the manufacturer and you pay a hefty tax for that “privilege”.

        2. Feeding you ads and upsell attempts whenever you turn them on, as the UI has basically been redesigned to try to sell you more shit first and make getting to your actual games take a few extra steps

        3. Any undesired feature in a console’s OS is something you just have to accept and move on. Powerusers killing Windows bloat with third party tools is a time-honoured tradition that goes back to Windows 3.11

        I’m not saying Windows is good.

        I’m saying that for someone coming from a PlayStation or a traditional XBoXSeXxxx (I love making jokes out of this name), this whitelabelled ROG Ally machine would feel like finally being able to breathe. Just for the fact that you can use more than one storefront and install applications from wherever you want.

        Let me put it this way:

        Linux is an anarchist commune. True freedom.

        Windows is an American Style Capitalist Republic. Freedom*********** with a thousand asterisks more. BUT for someone coming from the North Korea that is playing on consoles (or using an iOS mobile device or…), it DOES feel like finally breathing free.

        • The_Decryptor@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          21 days ago

          Also, compared to something like the Switch? I don’t see MS remotely bricking these devices if you run “homebrew” on them.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
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    22 days ago

    The one thing I took away from it was that the Xbox-button acts as alt tab. I WANT THE SAME FROM MY STEAM DECK IN DESKTOP MODE!

    But in Desktop mode the Steam button does absolutely nothing while a game is running.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
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        22 days ago

        I like to have other apps like a browser easily accessible with proper window management. And most of my games are non-Steam games which allow me to easily swap between desktop and gamepad bindings easily to alt tab out.

        And I’ve found that running KDE Plasma Wayland has no visible performance impact either. No idea why they use X11 in SteamOS.