The pcworld guy says. I like to tinker with the underlying OS so I prefer windows over steamdeck? Wtf?
Well now I gotta watch the video and be appropriately enraged. BRB.
Edit: Well. Now I have doubts that he does more than casual web browsing, bit of email and maybe some word processing on his computer, solitaire maybe? Windows is hardly the “I like to Tinker” OS, and the fact that he said it straight faced makes me believe that he doesn’t actually tinker with much of anything.
I’ve heard that a lot of the Windows based handhelds don’t have all the kinks worked our yet, and that Windows doesn’t like to play nice with that format of device. Maybe that’s what he meant? Steam Deck just works out the box, but he wants to feel like he has to struggle to get the device to play nice?
That must be what he meant lol.
I’m a petrolhead, I like to “tinker” which to me means fitting parts that are designed to fit, tidying up some brackets and fittings. Maybe polishing or painting some stuff.
I used to enjoy swapping engines, grinding off parts, welding new ones in place and fitting shit that was never intended to go on that car.
Thats how I see Windows VS Linux.
I think you might have it the wrong way around. It’s not Windows vs Linux. It’s Windows( not designed for a handheld) vs SteamOS(a curated Linux based distribution designed for the steamdeck hardware). No one is compiling their own distribution from scratch.
Do we need anything more than the steam deck? Literally my only complaint is I wish the screen was brighter for outdoor play but other than that it’s a perfect piece of kit
The steam deck fails my asks in that I want an all-in-one emulation machine through the PS3 and it just doesn’t have the computing power for that.
The GPD Win 4 does and does it in a much better form factor in my opinion. The biggest knock against it is that it’s a windows machine, but bazzite is making improvements fast enough that I hope I can use it full time on the device soon
