Ayaneo Next Lite revealed & it uses one of the Steam Deck’s best features - Dexerto
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Ayaneo has unveiled the Next Lite, a budget-oriented handheld that comes pre-installed with SteamOS, in a first for the company.
  • SavvyWolfEnglish
    81•4 months ago

    [Windows] can make the experience crippling for non-technically minded users

    Wild seeing this in an article talking about Linux.

    • @rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      56•4 months ago

      It’s very often true, though. Windows has pretty graphics, but doing anything technical that doesn’t work out of the box is fucking obscure.

      • @BestBouclettes@jlai.luEnglish
        38•4 months ago

        What do you mean, the registry is a perfect piece of software, crystal clear on how or why it works the way it does !

        • @smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          24•4 months ago

          Yes, I agree!

          Who would want to enable cycling through application windows on the taskbar via graphical settings in KDE Plasma, when you can just press Win+R, enter regedit.exe, get administrator privilages, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced and add a new 32-bit DWORD named LastActiveClick with the value of 1 in Windows.

      • @fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
        5•4 months ago

        Not even too technical stuff. Settings which a slightly advanced user might need or want to change are freaking spread out across 3 different applications. Good luck finding it through the their amazing search.

        • Dark ArcEnglish
          2•4 months ago

          Me: Ask for default browser setting Windows: Excuse me, did you mean to search for Bagels Near Me?

    • @null@slrpnk.netEnglish
      12•4 months ago

      Linux works better on appliances than Windows does, and this is really just one of those areas where you can see it in action. Great to see another OEM jump on the wave – it benefits the whole market.

  • Dr. MooseEnglish
    45•4 months ago

    Good to hear! My main gripe with steamdeck alternatives is that steam os is just so much better than whatever goofy flavor if windows they ship in.

  • @NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
    9•4 months ago

    Interesting.

    Anyone know the status of Valve “generalizing” that? Or is the idea going to be that ayaneo will work on a delay as they swap out drivers and all the other “immutable” stuff?

      • @Tash@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31•4 months ago

        Please don’t use that guide. That’s the old 2.x line of SteamOS which hasn’t been updated since 2019 and is based on a very old version of Debian. The SteamOS that the deck uses is 3.x and has also moved from Debian to Arch. Valve really needs to update that page.

        If you want to build your own SteamOS machine, take a look at something like HoloISO (https://github.com/HoloISO/holoiso) which is built on the current branch of SteamOS with the deck-exclusive OS/hardware items swapped out for standard kit.

        • @redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
          4•4 months ago

          Man, I didn’t know HoloISO is the only way to get the Arch-based SteamOS 3. I thought it’s a custom fork like Proton vs Proton GE.

      • @NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7•4 months ago

        Yeah. valve have George Foreman syndrome. That is the old SteamOS that was used with Steam Machines. You can tell because it is based on debian rather than arch

        I would actually be shocked if ayaneo were trying to pull that scam (and the promotional stuff definitely looks like modern steamdeck version of big picture).