As far as the arm processor goes, there are a ton of Android handhelds on the market. Obviously an android gaming handheld though is limited compared to something like the steam deck, but ARM processors are a lot more power efficient than x86 processors which is great for handhelds.
There are projects like box86 that are trying to get traditional PC games running on Linux ARM hardware, I’m guessing they’ll be the core of what Playtron is working around.
If Playtron contributes to that project, it could actually be really good for the future of Linux. That said I’m worried that nothing will actually come from this project, or that they won’t upstream their improvements. I suspect the future of PC’s will be ARM or RISC, so any projects that improve ARM backwards compatibility with x86 will be good for the future.
As far as the arm processor goes, there are a ton of Android handhelds on the market. Obviously an android gaming handheld though is limited compared to something like the steam deck, but ARM processors are a lot more power efficient than x86 processors which is great for handhelds.
There are projects like box86 that are trying to get traditional PC games running on Linux ARM hardware, I’m guessing they’ll be the core of what Playtron is working around.
If Playtron contributes to that project, it could actually be really good for the future of Linux. That said I’m worried that nothing will actually come from this project, or that they won’t upstream their improvements. I suspect the future of PC’s will be ARM or RISC, so any projects that improve ARM backwards compatibility with x86 will be good for the future.