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[–] tonytins@pawb.social 23 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)
  • Fixed Legion Go S joystick lights turning off upon entering desktop mode
  • Fixed controller input occasionally disappearing on the Asus ROG Ally

I'm diggin' Valve beating Microsoft at their own game.

[–] Altomes@lemm.ee -3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

While I love Linux and truly believe in it's superiority, this isn't really a fair comparison, this distro has been tailored for like 3 machines, compared to Windows being for thousands of machines.

[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's the other way around, thousands of machines are tailored for windows. Don't manufacturers create their own drivers for windows all the time?

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

In terms of raw numbers, I agree. That being said, SteamOS is accomplishing everything Microsoft had planned for with the original Xbox and more.

[–] Altomes@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh yeah for sure

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How does a general purpose distro like Bazzite compare to Windows/Steam OS on the Legion?

[–] Altomes@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure for the legion but the bazzite install on the Ally is amazing, it is again scoped for a small handful of devices. But I doubt I'll leave Bazzite anytime soon, I run a Fedora shop at home and I prefer Gnome to KDE plus I like the TPM control in Bazzite a lot

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Why doesn't anybody bother with tailoring a Windows distro like this?

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

OEMs tailor windows as much as they can, but there's only so much you can do.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The non-S variant of the Legion Go is technically tailored for Windows, but the OS was never designed to fulfill this role. Only the Xbox version is capable of that.

[–] Altomes@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

I believe this is Microsoft plan with their fusing of Xbox and windows branding down the line

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