We were so close to seeing another gaming handheld ship with Linux out of the box that isn't the Steam Deck, but it seems AYANEO with the AYANEO NEXT LITE weren't convinced enough and so they've changed their minds.
Some players provided feedback indicating the continued preference for a Windows operating system.
Interesting that it wasn’t something like an “overwhelmingly majority” of player feedback calling for Windows that prompted the change, just some… At least they will continue to provide HoloISO from their website and officially support it.
Some players could mean the large majority. Without any quantification a meaningless metric.
Plus it makes sense. The type of person who wants Linux on something like this is probably more than happy to install linux on it. Vs the average Joe who doesn’t want to futs with the quirks of running games through proton/is just used to windows probably doesn’t want to or doesn’t even know how to.
But, why?
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Interesting that it wasn’t something like an “overwhelmingly majority” of player feedback calling for Windows that prompted the change, just some… At least they will continue to provide HoloISO from their website and officially support it.
Some players could mean the large majority. Without any quantification a meaningless metric.
Plus it makes sense. The type of person who wants Linux on something like this is probably more than happy to install linux on it. Vs the average Joe who doesn’t want to futs with the quirks of running games through proton/is just used to windows probably doesn’t want to or doesn’t even know how to.
Some players under the username PhilS_msft
Which users? Of the 20 devices/year they ship, they can’t experiment with any with a different operating system?
People don’t like what they don’t know. Put it in their hands and see what happens. No one buys them? Go back to Windows.
Believe it or not most people don’t know what they want until you show them.
I bet MS got in their ear. Perhaps that was the plan all along?
Oh well, HoloISO was a terrible choice anyway and would potentially do more harm than good.