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MSI might be announcing a steam deck competitor (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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The more competition the better (:

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[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 53 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is this gonna be another winshit handheld?

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Big chance. But more competition is always a good thing in my opinion.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

As long as they don't interfere with, say, Bazzite, all's good.

I heard somewhere Microsoft is making a gaming UI for Windows 11 for devices like the Steam Deck, but dunno if there's any progress there.

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Last time I heard that, it was that it was the object of a hackathon they ran amongst employees. So not sure if they are actually still working on that.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember them saying it was shelved.

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Not surprised, in my experience, like 99% of hackathon projects never get picked up as actual priorities

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

I would be thrilled if they sponsored Bazzite and used it with a non-deck skin. Win-win-win situation (funding for Bazzite, better device and FOSS competition)

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

In general, yes, but I'm largely against giv8ng MSI money for the shady shit they've pulled

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right?! Like Value is giving away so much work for competitors to make good competing devices using FOSS and no one has really jumped on it yet.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Windows is a selling point for these companies. Never mind the absolute shithole that is Windows UX without a keyboard and mouse, little Timmy can use it to play Roblox and Forkknife!

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

For sure, and tbh to really take advantage of FOSS they would need to be tech companies in the first place (i.e. know how to hire developers and manage software projects). The next company that can actually value add on software to the product will have a real contender, till then it's just hardware manufacturers filling in the shrinking niche of games that don't run on the steam deck yet.