…Why Manjaro?
Manjaro has been bizarrely good at getting hardware partners on board. Pine64 (think pinephone, pinetab, SBCs), MinisForum, Slimbook, Tuxedo, etc.
If only they were properly run in other areas.
It’s literally the distro that stopped my distro hopping. Manjaro’s freaking fantastic.
Lower everyone’s expectations so that when it performs better than expected it can be racked up as a win?
Honest question: why not?
Letting their SSL certificates expire that many times is definitely a no-go for me
just set your clock back!
Manjaro constantly winds up having really weird issues, they hold packages back in order to make it more stable, but it honestly just broke things far more often then upstream arch did for me. Manjaro and it’s community is also riddled with really weird issues. It was pointed out to me a while ago that manjaro did some updates that broke grub customizer, and when people were trying to figure out what broke and how to fix it, Manjaro instead not only removed grub customizer, but made it conflict with the grub they had so people working on trying to fix it got a shovel full of go fuckyourself in the face
Because Garuda exists.
I’m glad steam deck propelled a new wave of handheld consoles that actually has decent specs
I even saw an article yesterday indicating Sony is developing something as well. 2 years away, but still, I never thought they were going to try again after the psp and Vita failure (failure is subjective, I still love my psp). I fully believe the success of the steam deck has revived there interest in it as well.
Is this something new? 'Cause they had that remote-play screen for the PS5 a while back that seemed to come and go without anyone noticing.
There’s the Playstation Portal, which only streams games from a PS5, and does a worse job than a Steam Deck… Which probably explains why so few people care.
Because it’s not the same class of device. The PS Portal is very niche. It’s a $200 device that basically just runs the PS Remote Play app.
I’ve used PS Remote Play on my phone and laptop, and it’s just not good in the cases I actually want to use it: when traveling away from home. Even with a good Internet connection it’s only “okay”. It’s utterly useless when in transit (trains, places, etc.), and 99% useless in any public place (e.g. cafe or library WiFi).
These are all cases where the Switch, Deck, and similar devices excel. The PS Portal addresses a much smaller market.
Soon, Only Not Yet.
Yeah hopefully we can get something decent in the 300 dollar range. I haven’t looked too much into these but they all seem to be 6-800.
Sooo it doesn’t run on an Orange Pi SBC? Well that’s confusing…
I mean, Orange Pi never made the SoCs to begin with, so it could well be they’re designing the SBC and just using an AMD laptop chip for this one
Now that you mention it, that is the same logo as the SBC manufacturer. I though Orange Pi was just the name of the SBC but it appears to be both. Still confusing, given the clear reference in the company name, but I digress.
Still think Manjaro is a dumb choice.
You and me both. Could’ve gone with ChimeraOS or HoloISO or even just Arch and it would’ve been better.
I welcome more linux based handhelds to the space but I’ll stick with the steam deck myself. At least I know that will be supported for a long time.
Did I miss the cost?
They never say it on these articles and videos. They’ll say it’s cheap and then the price will be $1000
Right‽ The brand new Steam Deck Killer! Better in every way, except it costs 3x as much and weighs more because it’s got a giant battery (or conversely the battery life sucks).
Like, no shit you can make something more powerful, finding the happy medium of performance to battery life and then making it cost effective AND actually portable are the most difficult parts of what Steam did and those are the things the competitors just seem to completely ignore.
Why Mandingo and not SteamOS?
That is a VERY Freudian slip
The auto correct just prefers words you use a lot on that keyboard
Computer-assisted Freudian slip then.
Maybe it’s not a pure gaming device. Orange Pi usually makes SBC’s like rpi. Manjaro is a pretty good OS for gaming.
I want this to be a thing so much…
But I cannot overlook the fact that this “website” is composed entirely of images and none of the text is properly aligned.
It’s properly aligned with the joysticks
😢
Finally a competitor that has Linux and uses trackpads.
Too bad they didn’t use a layout similar as the Steam deck. It’s the best layout for a handheld with trackpads. These trackpads are really far down.
Even the steam deck’s touch pads could be moved up more imo however, these look to be pretty much unusable.
And the joysticks are Xbox style and not ps style. If that makes sense.
I wouldn’t call the Deck’s sticks PS style, because PS has them on the bottom. Wii U style?
I mean like, in line with each other instead of thumbs tick left and abxy right
Manjaro… yeaaaah…well just make sure to stay away from the AUR.
I’m sure it’ll get a Bazzite port within weeks.
Funny enough we just finished our website yesterday lmao
Great! Bazzite.gg will point to it soon then? It still redirected to the GitHub for me.
Edit: cached result! The new site loaded on my phone! Very swish :)
Why?
one of two things, or maybe both, manjaro has a really weird issue with the AUR where they repeatedly pushed updates to pamac that have crippled the AUR.
there are also often times where AUR packages inexplicably break on manjaro so using the AUR while running is is fairly sketchy
I think I understand your latter point. I had no time to invest in another arch build last time I did a reinstall. This was before arch had a gui install. So I went Manjaro. I’ve noticed this problem where sometimes I install direct from aur and it messes stuff with pamac. Now that there’s a gui install for arch I’ll just go back to that next time.
Similar numbers to the z1 extreme but on lighter software. It could be a good balance. I remember travelling through Europe with a gaming laptop and an Android tablet. The efficiency of that tablet had me using it for games and browsing so much more. Anyway, this could be gaming performance and clos to Android/arm efficiency (vs the windows handhelds)
I understand the issues with Manjaro. But I am super excited with handhelds making a major come back. I think the next couple of years we are going to see major breakthroughs. Battery life is currently a big issue but this should be solved with more RND.
I currently play on Switch but I am getting very tempted to cross over to another device. But I will wait to see what Nintendo does next before I decide. A buddy of mine has the Asus ROG Ally which is also pretty impressive on its own.
What’s the GPU?
Likely 780M
Linux preinstalled
two touchpads
7840HS
aw yeah, its gamer time
Manjaro is weird but I wonder if they’ll make it some kind of Manjaro spin? IMO I’d be interested to have Bazzite or something similar on it
