Windows Was The Problem All Along
Windows Was The Problem All Along
Dave2D reviews the legion steamOS version compared to the windows version, and talks about the differences in performance and user experience
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Look I know I am kicking a hornet's nest here. First of all I am a Linux supporter, I have used the green Ubuntu since 2012, and I have been gaming on it since 2022.
But I am really curious about how the new ally 2 with the Xbox tweaked version of win 11 is going to turn out. Not that I would use it, if I get a handheld it will probably run Bazzite. But since Bazzite is basically a purpose built Linux OS for handhelds, I think the best comparison would be the Xbox team's purpose built Windows 11 for handhelds.
I still believe Microsoft will take the loss even with the tweaked version, but just like how we will cry if they put for example Hannah Montana Linux and Microsoft beats it somehow in certain examples with their new Xbox win 11 mobile.
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I don't think that's entirely unreasonable, I'm curious to see how those will compare too!
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The issue is that you are comparing david to goliath. Its okay to compare the two but lets not act as if we're not comparing the homemade go kart to a ferrari that has gotten trillions in funding over the years.
Linux could be half as good and still be the unbelievably better choice. With them trading blows is like the only time in history where david actually has a chance at winning.
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Sorry if this has already been posted, this video is from a couple weeks ago, but I just saw it in my recommendations and thought folks might enjoy the win for Linux :)
It HAS been posted a bunch. Unfortunately I haven't seen more thorough testing from more technical outlets since (all of those seem to be too busy with the Switch 2 to spend time in the Go S).
I did see a much smaller channel do a three way comparison between Windows, Linux and Bazzite on the Legion Go 1 and claim some better performance, but in normal use definitely not the 2x battery life Dave2D is reporting, which is consistent with my own experience owning a Legion Go 1 with the Z1 extreme and dual booting Windows and Bazzite since pretty much day one. From that experience I'd say performance is also heavily game-dependent. Gonna guess it has more to do with hitting memory limitations than anything else (incidentally, if you happen to own a non-Deck handheld, particularly one of the more niche ones built from laptop parts with a bunch of RAM, make sure to check how much VRAM is being allocated, it can make a big difference).
It'll be interesting to re-run some of those checks more rigorously when the ASUS Ally with the trimmed-down Windows build drops.
It's an interesting talking point to me because I suspect this has much bigger reach than the devices themselves. I wonder if anybody here owns a non-Deck device, and how many Decks are even owned. The Switch 2 ended up outselling the Deck in like a week, and best guess it'll have outsold the entirety of the PC handheld segment by the end of the summer, definitely before the holidays.
I have lots of thoughts on where PC handhelds are at the moment, many of them not particularly positive, but it really feels like at this point in time nobody is talking about them as real products you may want to use and instead more as some proxy in online debate about PC software and hardware opinions.
A fellow LeGo owner! Yaaayyyy!!!
I've been rocking Bazzite consistently for a little over 6 months now, having switched between the big three Linux distros for a while. Other than the benefit of "it ain't Windows," I'm incredibly impressed by how hooking up my eGPU to the LeGo on Bazzite just works.