Ayaneo next handheld is going to use SteamOS
Ayaneo next handheld is going to use SteamOS
Ayaneo has unveiled the Next Lite, a budget-oriented handheld that comes pre-installed with SteamOS, in a first for the company.
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Good to see someone using Linux for their platform on these handhelds. The big reason I don't want to try the Ally or whatever the others are doing is I can't imagine Windows is making the experience better.
I don't really have evidence to support that, but more Linux investment is better overall.
As a long time hand held user, Windows is dog shit (I mean, in general, too)
I stopped buying handhelds because of how many problems they had, until I got a steam deck. Now I'm back to being super interested in the market.
GPD Win's were cool for what they were, but so many trivial issues related to windows.
Really I think it's that SteamOS is built around the device. If you ever use desktop mode on the steamdeck it's just as painful as windows (my opinion from dual booting the steam deck).
Its why I think retro gaming handhelds work well too. They're built to have easy stop/start power states and better designed around non keyboard interfaces.
I bought a steam deck this Christmas. In desktop mode selecting a file with long click freezes the file Explorer if you don't click anything in the menu that pops up. And the track pad randomly stops working in desktop mode.
You might want to try a factory reset or make a warranty claim, as none of the SteamDecks I've used do that.
It's not a big deal. The track pad issue can probably be solved by some config, maybe steam doesn't always launch when I open desktop mode. And the file selection will probably be fixed in a update. At least when the windows becomes unresponsive I can still close it with the X and it open up a new window in the same spot. Also I don't move around files a lot. The gaming experience is basically flawless. I would probably spend more time fixing these issues than they cost me.
I found the issue with the desktop track pad suddenly not working. I played on my main PC with a steam controller and apparently didn't add a non steam game to my library, so editing my controller setting also applied that edit to my deck.
The Ally has been great in my experience. Windows plus Asus's overlay make everything pretty smooth to navigate.
Then if I feel like having the SteamDeck experience I can just launch Steam in big picture mode.
Then if I want the Xbox experience I can launch that app.
..and can play Switch games, and PS3/4 games...
There's really zero downside too it. People spout hate because it's trendy to dunk on Windows, but I just don't see any issues.
Inb4 "but Windows is spying on you and full of bloat".... No it's not because I took 10 min to get rid of all that shit just like I would on any gaming PC.
Not saying windows is inherently bad, but I personally would rather have a device running SteamOS on first boot up because more people using SteamOS incentivizes Valve to keep working on Proton. If anyone out there feels like windows is better for them, that's fine since that's their choice.