SteamOS puts the pressure on Microsoft’s Xbox-branded handheld

Microsoft's operation of Xbox and Windows for handheld gaming PCs can't travel soon enough. Windows connected handhelds is successful hopeless request of immoderate love, and Lenovo's Legion Go S is the champion grounds yet that Microsoft has a large Windows-shaped occupation it has to lick connected immoderate upcoming Xbox-branded handhelds.

YouTuber Dave2D managed to trial the Legion Go S with the caller SteamOS mentation alongside the existing Windows model. The hardware is precisely the same, but the operating systems are wholly different, and the results are eye-opening. Games moving connected the SteamOS exemplary execute amended than the Windows mentation astatine debased oregon mean settings, by astir 5 to 10 percent. These are games that are made for Windows, but Valve's fantabulous Proton compatibility furniture means they tally amended with the assistance of Linux and SteamOS.

The Legion Go S with SteamOS adjacent beats Valve's Steam Deck performance, and you tin get adjacent amended show if you're consenting to sacrifice the battery. Battery beingness connected a handheld gaming PC is simply a monolithic portion of the experience, and the SteamOS mentation of the Legion Go S conscionable wholly embarrasses the Windows exemplary successful Dave2D's tests.

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