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Steam Deck

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This article includes sales estimates for different handhelds from market research firm IDC.

They place total handheld PC sales of the Steam Deck, RoG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and MSI Claw at almost 6 million units for the past 3 years. It's estimated that the Steam Deck makes up between 3.7 to 4 million of those sales, more than all the other major handheld PC manufacturers combined.

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[โ€“] drmoose@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Having arch based os become mainstream would be huge for linuc gaming. Steamdeck already is and it just showing how much better linux is for gaming when approached with proper resources.

I was just reading the Verge's review of legion go s and Bazzite was giving like 10-40% performance improvement over windows - that's just crazy.

[โ€“] penquin@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

Absolutely. Linux is open and has less overhead and background garbage that runs at all times. Linux is also very modular and you can strip all the things you don't and add only what you do need to it.