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tehmics, do games w Zotac Zone review: Display galore with class-leading inputs

These reviews never do a great job talking about UI/UX and that’s literally the only thing I care about until they get the steam deck OS or Microsoft actually enters the space with a Windows version.

Voytrekk,
@Voytrekk@lemmy.world avatar

Could always install Bazzite on it, which would fix the UI issues and bring it on par with the Steam Deck.

Nibodhika, do games w New Windows gamepad keyboard will soon make typing on Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally more like the Steam Deck

With it, you can use your Xbox controller to move around the screen and type.

Does that mean you couldn’t before? Seriously people were playing around on a handheld that couldn’t even type?

Button accelerators are also available; these include the X button for backspace and the Y button for the spacebar.

WTF!? Isn’t that standard also?

For better movement patterns, the keyboard keys are aligned vertically."

Does this even make a difference?

In any case, the title is bullshit, it should be that will make windows handhelds close to typing on consoles which sucks. Typing on the Deck is a completely different experience, one that can’t be replicated in any of these handhelds because they lack the hardware to do so.

Boinkage, do games w New Windows gamepad keyboard will soon make typing on Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally more like the Steam Deck

Smells like shill in here

tal, do games w New Windows gamepad keyboard will soon make typing on Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally more like the Steam Deck
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

There are probably some games that this would work well for, but I’m not sure that it’d be a great replacement the way a physical thumb keyboard is for texting or the like.

Most present-day games that I can think of that I play use the keyboard as a grid of buttons. They expect to have your hand over the thing – often the left hand, with the right on the mouse – to let you be able to push multiple buttons quickly.

I’m not usually doing much text entry, which is what I’d expect a thumb keyboard to work well with.

Corigan, do games w New Windows gamepad keyboard will soon make typing on Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally more like the Steam Deck

I’ll never get a hand held gaming PC with out track pads. So fucking useful and add so many more games you can play comfortably.

refurbishedrefurbisher, do games w New Windows gamepad keyboard will soon make typing on Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally more like the Steam Deck

Hard to replicate the typing experience on the Deck when the hardware doesn’t have dual trackpads.

Corigan,

I should read the comments before posting. I had the same thought.

TheTechnician27, do games w New Windows gamepad keyboard will soon make typing on Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally more like the Steam Deck
@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world avatar

Just a low-effort regurgitation of a MS blog post to then sell you on an ROG Ally X affiliate link at the end. I love modern online journalism.

Dasnap, do games w SteamOS inches closer to third-party handhelds with Asus ROG Ally display and VRR support in Gamescope
@Dasnap@lemmy.world avatar

Will we ever see an official HTPC ISO release? I’m currently running Chimera and liking it so far, but wouldn’t be against dropping it if something 1st party comes along.

nutsack, do games w Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games, sparking speculations about new future hardware

quest native, please

Thatuserguy,

If anything I’m betting this is for their rumored standalone vr headset they have in development as a Quest competitor

Carighan, do games w M21 retro gaming handheld now official with rip-off design but affordable pricing and HDMI out
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Damn that looks uncomfortable to hold. Still, interesting device. So far I don’t need retro gaming in portable but it’s a neat idea.

acosmichippo,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

retro gaming seems like the best fit for portable due to low power usage.

DarkThoughts,

The thumbsticks look downright unusable.

MajorHavoc,

Yeah.

And I’ve started avoiding thumb sticks in portables because my old retro controllers with (non-hall effect) thumb sticks now have so much control drift that the D-pad is also unusable.

(While my retro controllers and systems that just had D-pads are still fine.)

DarkThoughts,

With something like a Deck you can at least swap them.
I feel for more retro oriented stuff I'd prefer some sort of gamepad attachment for phones. If that breaks or wears out at least I don't have to replace the whole device.

KingThrillgore, do games w Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

I would like if someone managed Valve right and made HL3.

ExperiencedWinter,

Valve makes infinitely more money off of store fees selling other people’s games. Why would they want to make a fraction developing a single game when they can go after Android’s 30% cut?

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

…So they have no issue burning a few million on HL3 knowing its a sunk cost to maybe keep some of the talent that has been leaving the company?

sheogorath,

The thing is, Valve works mostly as a collective with mostly flat structure. So there can’t be a higher up ordering people around to make HL3. The whole team needs to believe in it.

helenslunch,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

…why not both?

FreeLikeGNU, do games w Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam

Hmm something about this has me fantasizing about a phone sized deck. But considering Valves development of VR and this development, I think they are going to tap into the android based VR dev pool for porting titles to an official Android on Steam platform.

lustyargonian, do games w Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam

SteamDeck, emulate everything.*

  • Proton technically isn’t emulation, but it’s pretty crazy that the device basically doesn’t have anything natively built for it, everything is translated emulated. It took that much effort to break Microsoft’s PC gaming monopoly.
chunkystyles,

The Deck is what have me the confidence to move to Linux on desktop. I wouldn’t have switched if not for Valve.

Persi,

Regardless of what the website says, waydroid isn’t an emulator by any meaningful definition.

It’s a container that runs on top of your regular linux kernel (with some very cool desktop integration features), java/kotlin applications run as natively as they’d run on your phone.

chunkystyles,

That’s interesting. I didn’t know that. I tried working with Waydroid once on Bazzite on an older desktop of mine and didn’t get terribly far with it.

WeLoveCastingSpellz, (edited )

translation is kind of native though. It is almost like porting a winfows app to linux in real time, on the fly. It is pretty cool

lustyargonian,

Yeah it’s pretty cool. Sometimes the translation can even beat native performance.

FreeLikeGNU,

Sadly that’s mostly true, but that may have more to do with devs lack of experience with Linux in general. Often they would have to outsource the port to Aspyr or another team.

Zoomboingding, do games w Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam
@Zoomboingding@lemmy.world avatar

No idea why it’s difficult to run android on PC in the first place. Windows 11 can do it, but I’m clinging to 10 until it’s gone.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Have you heard the good news about Linux?

SatyrSack, (edited )

It is still surprisingly far from straightforward to get it working

EDIT: I mean Android on Linux is difficult. Not Linux itself.

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Fair enough. I’m just fulfilling Lemmy’s contractual obligation to mention Linux any time someone doesn’t want to “upgrade” to Windows 11.

xavier666,

Linus pays me $100 a month for spamming Linux. You also get payed, right?

hoch,

Every. Fucking. Thread.

TheGalacticVoid,

“Hey instead of complaining about a few minor annoyances on Windows, why not just switch to Linux?”

Like I have many uses for Linux and appreciate it, but the amount of suggestions that I see telling someone that Linux is the fix is way too many

The point here is that MS made a pretty killer feature that was easy to set up, and it failed because nobody used it.

FreeLikeGNU,

In the end you are still at the mercy of their shareholders and their core mission of EEE over end-user empowerment. Every thing they build is designed with lock-in and obfuscation to protect themselves.

pathief,
@pathief@lemmy.world avatar

I fear becoming that guy, can you call me out if I do? Cheers.

xavier666,

Not a priority for Microsoft anymore.

theverge.com/…/microsoft-windows-11-android-apps-…

IronKrill,

Still pisses me off, this was one of the reasons I updated and they half-assed the implemenation then said they’re killing it because no one is using it… no shit no one is using it, you hid it it behind the Amazon App (that no one uses) in the MS Store (that no one uses) and layers of docs for sideloading.

ms_lane,

It’s been around in one form or another since the Windows Phone 10 days, it was a weird beta that would sometimes work and required a lot of faffing about.

lorty, do games w Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

Guess they want to make it easy for mobile devs to launch their games on steam. Not sure if there’s a market for it though.

dwalin,

Don’t these guys have phones??? (Blizzard style)

skulbuny,
@skulbuny@sh.itjust.works avatar

Uhh… for their steam deck I’d think 😂 not that it’d be a primarily mobile gaming device, but no reason not to put your mobile games on it if you like them

Leg,
@Leg@sh.itjust.works avatar

This was my first thought. I’ve wanted to be able to play mobile games on my steam deck since I got it.

asexualchangeling,

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  • Leg,
    @Leg@sh.itjust.works avatar

    You are so real for this.

    zyberteq,

    Maybe a start for their own Android store? And later an iOS store perhaps? (Although that’s an entire different can of worms, regulations and apples)

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