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HP are interested in making a SteamOS handheld as the Windows experience sucks
If you look at nearly all reviews of handheld gaming PCs that run Windows, the major problem is Windows itself. So with Valve opening up the door to SteamOS Linux for more devices, it seems HP are interested in jumping in too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
AlexTECPlayz
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Aho
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •I know there are many fantastic Linux devices produced by smaller producers and I do eye on some of them, just not time to replace those I have already Linuxfied
OtterCynical
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Not that I'm arguing against more choices, but isn't the Steam Deck already exactly that, while also being first-party?
Also HP is a bloatware company, not a gaming company. What is our level of trust in them to appease the gaming community's interests, or at least not be hostile toward them as consumers?
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
in reply to OtterCynical • • •@ottercynical i get what you're saying, but you can apply that to literally anything
"why do x when y exists"
OtterCynical
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Is that what I typed? No, I can see that it wasn't.
What I asked (more between the lines I suppose) was:
1. What is the difference? As in, in what way would HP differentiate its handheld device from Valve's first-party device, let alone appear more appealing to both consumers and shareholders? What is your opinion on this (and not a fallacious handwave with the implication that it's too extreme a question to entertain)?
2. Can a reader of this question, for the sake of hypothesis, imagine and describe for us (the "forum") a scenario that they feel constitutes a realistic vision of a handheld gaming device manufactured by Hewlett-Packard? Do we maybe even have any examples?
Instead, the response I got was the literal rewriting and reduction of my entire line of questioning to "why would we do new thing when we have old thing" — or actually, come to think of it, you didn't even bother being generous enough to preserve that much of the original context, reducing it all the way to its fundamental "x"/"y" components like that's not the literal definition o
... show moreIs that what I typed? No, I can see that it wasn't.
What I asked (more between the lines I suppose) was:
1. What is the difference? As in, in what way would HP differentiate its handheld device from Valve's first-party device, let alone appear more appealing to both consumers and shareholders? What is your opinion on this (and not a fallacious handwave with the implication that it's too extreme a question to entertain)?
2. Can a reader of this question, for the sake of hypothesis, imagine and describe for us (the "forum") a scenario that they feel constitutes a realistic vision of a handheld gaming device manufactured by Hewlett-Packard? Do we maybe even have any examples?
Instead, the response I got was the literal rewriting and reduction of my entire line of questioning to "why would we do new thing when we have old thing" — or actually, come to think of it, you didn't even bother being generous enough to preserve that much of the original context, reducing it all the way to its fundamental "x"/"y" components like that's not the literal definition of a straw man, when all I even wanted was other people's actual opinions.
Very interesting choice.
So now I spell the whole thing out in excruciating and impossible-to-misinterpret detail, just so that you can then go ahead and (in before) laugh and say "I can't read all that bro go cope".
Very interesting indeed.
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
in reply to OtterCynical • • •@ottercynical "Not that I'm arguing against more choices, but isn't the Steam Deck already exactly that, while also being first-party?"
Literally what you're saying, and now you're sending me a wall of text acting really silly about it
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •deregon
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Not a fan of HP generally speaking, but more choices and more manufacturers adopting Linux is always good.
Also, nice to see people in the field acknowledge how terrible the Windows experience is on those devices !