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[–] d3ceived 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are good things to be said about the Ally, but I find the soon-to-be-released GPD handhelds more interesting. Both are officially stated to support SteamOS (which means plain Arch and possibly other distros should also work great) and offer something different from the Deck and Ally in that the GPD Win4 is much more compact, and the GPD Max 2 has a much larger display.

[–] chanunnaki 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got both the Max 2 and Win 4 in the 6800U versions and I use the Steam deck substantially more than either of them simply because I actually cannot stand Windows

[–] d3ceived 1 points 1 year ago

Why not install SteamOS or plain Arch Linux on the GPD devices then?