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Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds (kotaku.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

We might not have the year of the Linux Desktop, but we can expect 2025-2026 to be the year of the Linux handheld.

I would argue that year of the Linux handheld has been since the deck dropped. There's been nothing that's anywhere near the solid experience of a Steam Deck. Every competitor is releasing with windows, and all I ever hear from the people I know who bought one of those is that they like it....now that they're running Bazzite. The ones that aren't releasing with windows are doing android, and while I get a whole bunch of gaming from my various android devices, until I can play pc games unported they aren't competing in the same space.