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No idea about handhelds as I'm an exclusive PC gamer - what OS do these devices come with if not SteamOS? Aren't other OSes far inferior?
ROG Ally comes with windows and it's very usable, I don't have any of the usual windows chicanery
Oh I didn't know there was still something like a "Windows mobile" around. Interesting!
There isn’t. It’s regular desktop windows shoehorned into a handheld screen.
That doesn't sell it to me, the opposite actually
Hence the desire for SteamOS.
Or Bazzite. Apart from the xboxness, the hardware isn't half bad in many of these devices. Windows just makes them completely unusable. Which means there's quite a few on the used market.