This is a port of SteamOS, Armada is not.

FYI: I changed the link of this post to the beta 2 hotfix because beta 1 had a booting bug.

I’m sure if AMD or Intel don’t get their act together and produce something that more efficient than whatever Qualcomm have in the pipeline, that’s what’s going to happen.

I just hope Valve will have stated by then to entice ARM native games instead of wasting performance on emulation.

I don’t think the emulator targets this game in particular.

I think you’re right. Initial SteamOS 3.0 release as shipped on the first wave of Steam Decks was broken trash by today’s standards. Even the first 3.0.xx updates made a world difference.

I’m not the developer but my guess is that they want to distinguish this from Armada which is something like Bazzite but using Arch Linux where everything is recompiled.

They take the binary SteamOS image and add a different kernel and some other auxiliary stuff to port Valve’s image to new devices.

That’s broadly similar to what Linux Mint does to Ubuntu or Bazzite does to Fedora. Sometimes this is referred as a remix instead of a fork.

Edit: typo from wrong autocorrect

From the headline alone I would have thought it’s a VR capability Wii emulator.

He doesn’t want others to think he’s as poor as those guys who cannot afford to pay these taxes.

Edit: typo

One of those paywall removers is basically Perplexity summarizing entire articles.

the Gnome dev in that thread mentions that Gnome bans AI usage, but I haven’t been able to find anything that confirms that

You can bet your behind that the developers employed by IBM Red Hat are 100% using LLMs to code. Chances are they are even mandated by corporate higher-ups to do so.

They’re welcome imo

Not without protecting their southern border first, preferably by making the southern neighbour pay for it.

I’m old enough to remember Transmeta processors. I know what they did.

That’s not correct. For one, I did not say they were more efficient.

“Look at the new Intel handhelds, they just operate on a whole new level of efficiency.”

So the “whole new level of efficiency” isn’t better efficiency, it’s worse efficiency and the need for bigger batteries. Got it!

Yes and the small, shitty ones that only sell on AliExpress don’t and because Device Tree is a terrible concept, you still need to get distributions with explicit adaptations to each specific device.

True but emulating specific extensions is less costly than emulating everything through FEX. Basically a slimmed down version of what Transmeta tried all those years ago. Especially Nvidia would be big enough to also come up with their own extensions.

Not saying that this will happen, just that there are feasible ways for competitors

You claimed that the Intels are more EFFICIENT than ARM processors, so the devices need to be lighter and faster but so far I’m not aware of any x86 handheld that manages that.

I’d totally be in favor of that happening. Device Tree is a clusterfuck and as long as the cast majority of consumer ARM devices don’t support the SystemReady specification, x86 is more flexible but that’s not the point you were arguing.

Processor start-ups need to make their own x64 processors now that the patents are no longer valid.

I have yet to be aware of any Intel Arc G3 handheld that manages to come down to the 540g in weight of a Switch 2 console. The Acer Atlas 7 has a smaller screen and yet weighs a bit under 700g, so 150g more while it has a smaller screen.

Manufacturers literally CAN NOT closed-source fork the kernel, because of its licensing. They HAVE to release the exact kernel sources used for the device.

Legally aren’t allowed to, may not care anyway. Chinese legal system doesn’t enforce this.

I wouldnt be surprised if the Steam Frame 2 ran on x86.

Chance is higher that Steam DECK 2 will be ARM/Snapdragon. So far nobody seems to capitalize on the fact that x64 ran out of patent protection this year.