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[–] FreeBooteR69 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I have a LCD and Oled Steam deck, love them and use them often. I'm not a fan of Nintendo, or other non open systems, being a linux-pc guy, so don't own nor have any interest in acquiring them. I hope Valve can improve on their market-share, and more open linux friendly devices find their niche in the market-place.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Valve is probably doing the two most important things in gaming right now:

  • Setting a low-end benchmark for devs to build/optimize games to ("how well does it run on steam deck")

  • making gaming on Linux more readily available.

Both are critically needed, but like your other commenter, I would like to see more competition.

[–] FreeBooteR69 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the competition isn't as forward thinking as Valve. They are too busy trying to corner their little markets to build a larger more robust one with room for everyone. Petty, greedy, and low-brow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I could see that changing. I think a lot of the other competitors went with Windows mostly because they either come from a legacy manufacturer (Lenovo, ASUS) or have been making handhelds longer than Valve (GPD).

But now that SteamOS is practical and able to actually run games i bet well see some shifts. Lenovo is already selling a SteamOS version of their Legion Go S handheld.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope Valve can improve on their market-share

I wish someone would actually compete with Valve instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The Xbox handheld will make things worse. I wish there was another big competitor based on Linux.