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Whats the deal with this new playtron thing
Whats the deal with this new playtron thing
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Whats the deal with this new playtron thing
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:56 PM
startup trying to create a SteamOS competitor
, using Linux
+ non
-steam stores
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 5:56 PM
on the same fedora base as us
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:57 PM
i suspect they
'll do what valve does
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:57 PM
proprietary client
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 5:57 PM
Bazzite fork
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:57 PM
open source tools
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 5:57 PM
Lmao
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 5:57 PM
Their client looks nice but it
's useless right now
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 5:57 PM
But it looks nice
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 5:57 PM
I
'm conflicted
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:57 PM
no desktop mode is a bummer though
A
Aru
no desktop mode is a bummer though
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 5:57 PM
on god
?
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 5:57 PM
I didn
't see that in the announcement
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
The dude said he
's considering it
A
antheas
The dude said he's considering it
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
bruh
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
Join the discord it
's fun
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
oh
? i thought they said no desktop mode
K
Kyle Gospo
bruh
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
Consider adding it that is
A
antheas
Join the discord it's fun
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
nah I
'm gonna stay out
, trying to keep the hell out of this
N
NotMrToast
Custom hardware
N
NotMrToast
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
Other things too
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
I
'm just lurking
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
I get enough entertainment as it is
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
no desktop mode
= no modding or emulators
, etc
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:58 PM
well
, not easily at least
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:59 PM
immediately would kill any interest I
'd have in the project
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:59 PM
but i guess if they
're targeting the mainstream console audience
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 5:59 PM
Well we know their stack and it
's not much
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:59 PM
that doesn
't matter
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 5:59 PM
Supposedly they have some big names from Amazon for the ui
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 5:59 PM
it
's basically just all the same tools as bazzite
, steamOS
, etc
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 6:00 PM
The UI looks good
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 6:00 PM
but with their own client instead of steam
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 6:00 PM
I want my UI to look like that
K
Kyle Gospo
Click to see attachment
V
Valerie
•
3/19/24, 6:00 PM
Apparently the verge wasn
't supposed to share this
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 6:00 PM
Probably either of their vids
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 6:00 PM
Anyway what else he
's gonna say
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 6:00 PM
was kind of surprised that the legion go video showed up
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 6:00 PM
but the legion go is a good dev device
A
Aru
•
3/19/24, 6:00 PM
very few linux hiccups
V
Valerie
Apparently the verge wasn't supposed to share this
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 6:01 PM
yes
, please do not share the video on our youtube with fake title and description details that is a direct reupload of a russian guy
's work
K
Kyle Gospo
yes, please do not share the video on our youtube with fake title and descriptio...
V
Valerie
•
3/19/24, 6:01 PM
Yeaaaaah
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 6:02 PM
now I can be way less critical of that video tho
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 6:02 PM
very impressive they got witcher 3 even close to 30 fps on phone hardware
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 6:02 PM
not gonna make ARM PC gaming any less of a meme anytime soon
, but
damn
impressive
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 6:03 PM
Phone hardware specd for 13w
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 6:03 PM
People forget amd is neck and neck to apple silicon
A
antheas
•
3/19/24, 6:04 PM
It
's like within 20
% battery efficiency
A
antheas
People forget amd is neck and neck to apple silicon
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 6:04 PM
I can
't wait to see some of those power efficiency improvements AMD is promising
K
Kyle Gospo
•
3/19/24, 6:04 PM
x86 has a bright future
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