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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Oh, I hope they don’t though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

I don't know that valve needs to bring steamOS to other devices. Pretty sure Bazzite is good enough for most folks.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

TIL Microsoft has a handheld gaming platform.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

They effectively don't. Several of the hardware OEMs saw the Steam Deck and rushed copies to market that run desktop Windows with some launcher they slapped together, and they don't hold a candle to something someone thought about for a few minutes.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Microsoft flamed out of the mobile OS space precisely because they insisted that Windows not fork, but be identical software running on all devices.

So now, there is no such thing as a windows phone, but every time I wake up my computer I see a vestigial lock screen that I have to dismiss before I log in.

They designed their phones like a company entitled to 85% of the market share. Something tells me they're not going to reform just to capture that mobile game space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

What does the login screen have to do with mobile? They've had them since at least Windows 95 (I forget if 3.1 had one), and they've been evolving every release.

If you mean the screen before the login, that's been around since at least Windows 95 too, though it didn't used to be default and required you to press Ctrl+alt+del to dismiss (which before win95 would reboot your computer)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That Lock Screen is not vestigial, it still loads and displays bing ads. You are the product, not the customer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have never seen an ad on my lock screen. Possibly because of all the stuff I have disabled and the fact that I use windows 10. I have some questions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

To answer your question this is a Windows 11 thing. Windows 10 will be my Windows 7 which was my Windows XP, which was my Windows 98.

Tldr skip every other one.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago

No they really dont. Let windows die thw death its always deserved.

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