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5 reasons Linux is better than Windows for gaming handhelds (www.xda-developers.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but that's only from technical standpoint. Adoption is king and right now we're pretty far away from ARM or risc being commonplace. Hence, a handheld with a non x86 chip does not make sense now or in the near future. Not to mention that people tend to want to run emulators and old games with these devices and those will never be "compiled natively" for either arm or risc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The major advantage of RISC is drastically lower power consumption compared to x86. One of the biggest complaints people have with mobile is that the battery runs dry quickly when playing games. Significantly increasing battery life would be a huge win.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Agreed. However, why would I be happy about having more battery in a device that doesn't let me run the games/programs that I want to use?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

I find there are more games than I have time to play already out there, so the actual question is whether the device would have enough games to make it worth it. I mean this is exactly the same problem people have when choosing a game console. Despite consoles having strictly less games than PCs, plenty of people still buy consoles and are perfectly happy with them.