Nice. I use Debian on my Legion Go for apt (and being a Debian fan).
No idea about handhelds as I’m an exclusive PC gamer - what OS do these devices come with if not SteamOS? Aren’t other OSes far inferior?
They come with windows
For what it’s worth I have a ROG Ally X with both Windows 11 Pro and Bazzite both installed. It came with Windows 11 Home but I upgraded windows to get more access to things like Group Policy Editor specifically so I could turn off pretty much everything MS put on it that I didn’t want. Local Account. No telemetry. No ads. No tacking. No copilot or AI. The only handheld that comes with Steam OS right now is the steam deck and the Legion Go S. All the others come with Windows.
For the purposes of using steam, windows isn’t inferior exactly but I don’t like it as much. Touchscreen support for Windows 11 (os-wise) is pretty poor in comparison to previous Windows distros like 10. You can limit but not completely prevent other processes from running in the background in windows. But once you launch steam big picture mode it’s basically the same. There’s very few functional differences (hardware things mostly that are handled by other apps like RGB lighting or fan curve and TPM and battery charge limits).
How windows performs is ultimately dependent on the hardware and that’s a lot of the reason that I can’t speak for how windows would perform on a lower specced device. I doubt windows on a steam deck would perform the same as steam os on a steam deck.
ROG Ally comes with windows and it’s very usable, I don’t have any of the usual windows chicanery
How reliable is sleep? Does it actually go to sleep? Is the battery drain in sleep acceptable? Does it come out of sleep without issue? Is it fast to go to sleep and resume from sleep?
My experience with the steam deck has been absolutely stellar regarding sleep, to the point is has been a game changer. So fast to pick up for a quick game and put back to sleep even if playing just for a minute. It’s reliable and the battery drain is acceptable maybe (roughly 10% per 24h but didn’t measure it explicitly).
Oh I didn’t know there was still something like a “Windows mobile” around. Interesting!
There isn’t. It’s regular desktop windows shoehorned into a handheld screen.
That doesn’t sell it to me, the opposite actually
Hence the desire for SteamOS.
It works but consunes more battery abd if you have leave the fancy asus or lenovo shop you run into problems
I guess visiting the Asus and Lenovo shops is all gamers ever wanted!
“SteamOS has released!”
“Yay!”
“It’s just Nobara with official support”
“Oh.”
@OmegaLemmy @cm0002 I thought Nobara was Fedora-based?
It is. Not comparable at all. Starting with Arch barebones and building an entire OS on it is basically all the work with the least amount of skipping. Lots more room to cater to and optimize handheld experience
Oh wow a post from Mastodon, uh, yeah, has the same function and end goal though
