• reflectedodds@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This is what I was thinking. For a first iteration to get out the door immediately it could just be windows with a “game browser” that launches full screen when you turn it on 😂

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      7 months ago

      I mean, that’s what all Steam Deck competitors really are. They’re Windows 11 with atrocious launchers on top, some of which acceptable and some very buggy, plus a literal standard AMD APU that AMD is selling by the bucket, and half of them share board designs sold by Chinese suppliers pretty much ready made.

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      7 months ago

      It wouldn’t be Windows, it’d probably be a variant of Astra Linux.

      The year of Linux may finally be among us.

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      7 months ago

      It would have to run steamos or something the complexity of all the always-online launchers that modern triple a games has is something that steam handles well, and likely a huge trip up point on any frontend slapped on a windows pc

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          7 months ago

          That is literally what the first Xbox was. It’s internals was a custom mboard running a Celeron 700 and 3.5" HDD (can’t remember what the graphics was based on, maybe a GeForce MX?) with a customised Win2k OS.

          All approx. It’s early and I can’t be bothered confirming those specs are 100% accurate :p