Nice, we can be submerged by notifications and other annoying popups on a handheld now.
It's exactly what I needed.
Do you want to pin this useless app I've installed without your knowledge on your screen?
The best is none of either
No more windows please, I'm sick of it.
Are we getting another windows 8 without start menu again?
I’m not a big Linux person, but the steam deck NOT being windows seems like a plus generally. >_>
I was using Lenovo's handheld a few weeks before release and was really impressed by the specs until I turned it on and it was windows and I made an audible laugh. They were saying I had no idea what I was talking about and how windows was the future of handheld gaming. Which made me laugh some more, guess who's making a SteamOS handheld now?
Get fucked. After all the shit I've seen them pulling with Windows 11 they'll never get a dime out of me again. I'll ride my win 10 until it's out of support then switch to Linux. Fuck monopolies, and fuck enshittification for profit.
I plan to use zero patch until eol then go Linux. https://0patch.com/
SteamOS for pc can't come soon enough.
Just install Mint Cinnamon. It’s super approachable and Steam works great on it.
Steam already runs fine on Linux, you don't need SteamOS to us the compatibility functionality, meaning anything you can play on the steamdeck already works on a Linux pc.
Amen. I'll trust that until Gabe dies and of course some shithead takes his place and ruins the company
Don't wait till support ends, it will make the switch more stressfull
Key quote:
Microsoft is looking at combining Xbox and Windows experiences together — and that we should see changes this very year, rather than needing to wait for an Xbox handheld that might still be years away
So there probably will be an xbox handheld, but don't hold your breath. In the meantime they actually are a little worried about how much SteamOS is showing Windows up.
I think the opposite is gonna be the case
the best of Xbox and Windows together
I am beyond thrilled
!Big fucking /s!<
Anything Microsoft built lately is dogshit. They turned Windows into a steaming pile of shit over the past 20 years. When you think it can’t get any worse, they somehow raise the bar on disappointment.
No doubt it will be loaded with a shit ton of tracking/telemetry to build new datasets and train LLMs. Mining data from kids/teenagers and building those ad profiles early on is key.
Repairability will likely be shit as well.
I think the timing of this news coming so close after Valve announcing the SteamOS beta shows that Microsoft might actually be afraid.
The timing is because CES is happening right now. Microsoft has been eyeing this use case since at least the launch of the Steam Deck.
probably started more around the switch. it takes microsoft forever to ~~invent~~ copy something.
Ah, that makes more sense.
And to think that this all started because Gabe was afraid that microsoft's "app store" would hurt Steam so he decided to fully embrace Linux to in preparation. I bet not even Gabe expected back then that the situation would be as it is today.
I was hoping I'd fly under the radar will they have their heads deep in llm ass, but Gaben basically mortally wounded Windows and it's bleeding out
The best of windows? Windows 11 is shit. Is there some better windows they are hiding somewhere?
Actually, yes there is! Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC. massgrave.dev
Yes, it's called Windows 7.
The best of Windows is running more than just games that got ported to Xbox, and at better settings.
So, some time ago I saw a video about Microsoft about how they had gotten their OS so bad that now nobody wants to use it by always going all in into the newest big thing (Vr and win 10 mixed reality, tablets and win 8) and i think the same is going to happen here. microsoft will try to make their whole OS just like steamOS, and fail hardly at both the normal consumers and the handheld market
Pass.
“Xbox” will just be Windows going forward, at least on handhelds.
We've come full circle, almost like a red ring of death.
I just don't get why they didn't think of quickly porting the Xbox interface over to desktop Windows. Should have been an easy fix to make handheld gaming on Windows more appealing.
It's a lot more than that. SteamOS isn't just Steam Big Picture Mode. There's some special sauce in there to capture the active window so that you never lose focus of the game window and such. If you just run a Windows machine set to boot into Steam Big Picture on startup, you'll find lots of times that you have to break out a keyboard to Alt+Tab for a variety of reasons that SteamOS never encounters. And given the other problems Windows has introduced over the past decade, that's the least of their problems now.
special sauce in there to capture the active window so that you never lose focus
All hail Gamescope!
Just chiming in to confirm you're correct. I use big picture mode on windows and I've got to keep an air mouse with me for moments like that.
RROD was actually 3/4ths of a circle. A full red circle was a different and less troubling error.
They obviously mean steamOS haha
So.... Are they selling a box full of hot air? That's the best marketing stunt ever
People think Xbox is shit at the moment. Making things more like xbox isnt received as positively as it used to be. When I was a windows user and I saw anything Xbox related come up I knew I was about to deal with some clunky bullshit that was not wanted and poorly implemented.
I haven't heard anything from MS on the subject of Xbox since the release of PS5. I think it's dead in the water.
Get an Xbox PC app for Steam Deck then, Microsoft.
I'm going to imagine Xbox would love to. But Microsoft is stopping them. They'd stop android and ios too if they still had windows phone.
You missed the part where Microsoft had better apps on Android and iOS during the W10M period. Satya never cared for Windows Phone once he became CEO.
This could be a snapdragon X handheld, and one day run an unofficial good OS.
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