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> No exposed screws on the body This is phrased like a feature, but it's absolutely not. Why would anyone want this when the Steam Deck is super easy to repair
by Etheryte 3y ago
> No exposed screws on the body
This is phrased like a feature, but it's absolutely not. Why would anyone want this when the Steam Deck is super easy to repair and has a lot of spare part options?
- squarefoot 3y agoGamers. But having now two major Linux gaming devices means competition which is always good from the consumer side.
- bjord 3y agoyou'd actually be surprised how much competition there seems to be in the chinese SBC gaming space it's mostly emulation, though (see https://www.reddit.com/r/SBCGaming/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SBCGaming/)
- jhot 3y agoI recently went down this rabbit hole. I bought a controller and mount for playing emulated games on my phone and then started seeing references to various handheld emulation devices. The amount of options from $50-200 is insane and I think my kids will love one of the switch-like devices that can play a ton of retro games.
- bjord 3y agoI've also recently fallen into (reading/watching about) it, and from what I've seen, some of them have really impressive levels of community software support e.g. https://onionui.github.io https://onionui.github.io
- ensignavenger 3y agoAsus and Lenovo both make a handheld gaming device that competes with the Steamdeck now. Though the Orange Pi Neo looks like an interesting entrant. Manjaro is pretty similar to the Steamdeck OS, which Valve has failed to release for other hardware (they said they were going to). In fact, Manjaro is what Valve recommends to developers looking to test their games ona "steamdeck like" OS if they don't have a Steamdeck.
- squarefoot 3y ago> Asus and Lenovo both make a handheld gaming device that competes with the Steamdeck now. They both run Windows natively, though; that should place them in an slightly different market.
- pjmlp 3y agoFor playing Windows games, mostly.
- giantg2 3y agoThese aren't mutually exclusive. My phone doesn't have exposed screws, but it's relatively easy to pop off the back cover and access them.
- prmoustache 3y agoIt is usually ok for the first repair but having replaced 3 times the screen of my significant other (!) the plastic casing tabs do not like repeated access. Even worse if the stuff is not documented correctly you can break those plastic tabs by mistake. I did so when I converted my vintage polaroid camera to battery-less I-type films.
- _chu1 3y agoHow old is your phone to have a back cover?