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[-] reflectedodds@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago

This is what I was thinking. For a first iteration to get out the door immediately it could just be windows with a "game browser" that launches full screen when you turn it on 😂

[-] kadu@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I mean, that's what all Steam Deck competitors really are. They're Windows 11 with atrocious launchers on top, some of which acceptable and some very buggy, plus a literal standard AMD APU that AMD is selling by the bucket, and half of them share board designs sold by Chinese suppliers pretty much ready made.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

That’s literally what the original Xbox was

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

They at least did the courtesy of deleting the Windows UI, though.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago

It wouldn't be Windows, it'd probably be a variant of Astra Linux.

The year of Linux may finally be among us.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

It would have to run steamos or something the complexity of all the always-online launchers that modern triple a games has is something that steam handles well, and likely a huge trip up point on any frontend slapped on a windows pc

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Essentially just Playnite then?

[-] Woozythebear@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

So? That's literally an Xbox...

[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago
[-] meathorse@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

That is literally what the first Xbox was. It's internals was a custom mboard running a Celeron 700 and 3.5" HDD (can't remember what the graphics was based on, maybe a GeForce MX?) with a customised Win2k OS.

All approx. It's early and I can't be bothered confirming those specs are 100% accurate :p

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