Comment on Microsoft dives into the handheld gaming PC wars with the Asus ROG Xbox Ally
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
Ah shit Microsoft responded to steamOS. If this this matches or whoops linux in performance its going to make it very hard to convince people to move away from Microsoft.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
It probably won’t whoop Linux, but if it can at least get the performance closer, we could have an excitingly competitive handheld OS market.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
You are sitting here saying finally a competitive os market but the competition has pretty much just ended.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
They would both have different strengths, so handheld Windows will never snuff out SteamOS when it has a pretty good head start already. Not to mention that any windows handheld will be more expensive than a SteamOS one unless Microsoft is willing to give them away for free.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 days ago
SteamOS has had a good start but its not a headstart. Its still a minority OS in the handheld space. Now that you can get a slick UI with good preformance, 100% software compatibility, im failing to see the advantages that will draw windows users onto steam.
Im a linux users so I place a lot of value in the freedom of the ecosystem but most non linux users dont think about that or care. SteamOS needed this win to convince people to leave the microsoft ecosystem and now microsoft has closed the gap.