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Playtron plans to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based OS for gaming (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To be clear, this is just an alternative Linux OS. The hardware shown in the thumbnail and article is just a mockup meant to represent a potential handheld. Part of their goal is to offer equally good support for all PC game stores (epic etc) vs the "steam first" experience of the deck.

Dedicated builds for the Steam Deck and other handheld PCs are to come later this year.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Linux and user base fragmentation, name a more iconic duo. No one is gonna use it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Linux and user choice? Even if it flops it's always good to have more people trying out stuff like this!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Touché. Though the fragmentation brings more issues than user choice solves, IMO. I think people should focus on making SteamOS available everywhere instead of everyone making their own Linux handheld gaming distro.

But who am I to talk, around 5 of my projects were started because I couldn't be bothered to contribute to other projects and instead opted for a rewrite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Choice of Linux distro has always been very fragmented though, and in my very limited knowledge it doesn't really seem to be that much of a problem. They all basically do the same thing using the same core technology, so if both this and the Steam Deck are making use of Linux to be the OS and Proton to actually play the games then the rest is just a nice bit of user choice, right?