“TRUE GAMING”

I wish the marketing gamer aesthetic would just die. I would still take the steam deck over any of the others just because it doesn’t look like shit. We already had handheld wars that have stagnated but they refuse to learn from anything other than investors I guess. None of the consoles or past handhelds are designed to look like ass, and the PC parts most people don’t care as it will be hidden in the case and just get the best price to performance.

Steam should really hurry with finalizing SteamOS for other devices. They’re losing quite a lot of momentum, they could easily be the dominant handheld PC OS.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Even MSI appear to be jumping into the fold now with an announcement due at CES 2024.

We don’t exactly have much to go on right now, other than the teaser they posted up on their Instagram page and on X noting “A whole new breed of MSI dragon is coming.⁠ Get a grip and stay tuned.⁠”

No doubt it will be another handheld running Windows though instead of Linux, but it’s not like that has stopped people!

Linux support for the ROG Ally, the Lenovo Legion Go, plus various units from GPD and AYANEO have been improving pretty quickly with ChimeraOS being one of the best options.

Naturally I’ll be sticking to the Steam Deck OLED since it’s the most supported available with Linux out of the box.

Update: as a small addition, it seems this may be Intel powered given the reply on social media site X from the official Intel Gaming account with three thinking emoji.

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All these devices have the exact same specs, just different screen and RAM.

I’d pay serious money for one of these that could double as a proper desktop workstation when docked to an eGPU.