• Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      Valve was essentially LATE to the handheld market, they just had the technical and company will to do it the best.

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        9 months ago

        It helps they actually made their own OS to make it easier for people to get into. Windows really doesn’t work on those small screens

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          9 months ago

          Not sure what you mean – they all run Linux. The images just have the video hardware configs baked in with a preconfigured user and start script. You would be amazed at how easy that is to do, all things considered. I have a few kiosk configurations I created for the two Home Assistant panels I have in my house.

          https://wiki.clockworkpi.com/index.php/ClockworkOS

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        9 months ago

        I hear that.

        But how many people actually use all of those other brands listed?

        It’s ok to just say “no one” without downvoting.

        All I’m hearing is crickets

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          9 months ago

          Anecdotally, I have an Aya Neo. I know a few people with a few of the others brands. There’s a decently sized Aya Neo Discord that I’m part of, and I would assume the other brands have something similar. There’s definitely use of non-Steam handhelds, or there wouldn’t be a growing market for them.

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                  9 months ago

                  I personally love it, and yes it can with a dock similar to the Switch’s. It’s ran every game I’ve thrown at it, and I’ve an original 2021 version. There’s a few quirks, like the joysticks will sometimes just decide to not do a random direction, but recalibrating is easy. Obviously the resolution quality isn’t as stellar as if you were running a pc meant output to a monitor, but on the built in screen everything is crispy. It’s decently heavy though, so my baby wrists get tired after a while. But yeah it’s great, playing whatever wherever is pretty ace.