Orange Pi Neo is new handheld powered by AMD and comes preinstalled with Manjaro
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11418105
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11418103
...Why Manjaro?
Lower everyone's expectations so that when it performs better than expected it can be racked up as a win?
Honest question: why not?
Manjaro constantly winds up having really weird issues, they hold packages back in order to make it more stable, but it honestly just broke things far more often then upstream arch did for me. Manjaro and it's community is also riddled with really weird issues. It was pointed out to me a while ago that manjaro did some updates that broke grub customizer, and when people were trying to figure out what broke and how to fix it, Manjaro instead not only removed grub customizer, but made it conflict with the grub they had so people working on trying to fix it got a shovel full of go fuckyourself in the face
Because Garuda exists.
I'm glad steam deck propelled a new wave of handheld consoles that actually has decent specs
I even saw an article yesterday indicating Sony is developing something as well. 2 years away, but still, I never thought they were going to try again after the psp and Vita failure (failure is subjective, I still love my psp). I fully believe the success of the steam deck has revived there interest in it as well.
Yeah hopefully we can get something decent in the 300 dollar range. I haven't looked too much into these but they all seem to be 6-800.
I welcome more linux based handhelds to the space but I'll stick with the steam deck myself. At least I know that will be supported for a long time.
I want this to be a thing so much...
But I cannot overlook the fact that this "website" is composed entirely of images and none of the text is properly aligned.
It's properly aligned with the joysticks
😢
One could think they forgot about a product page and needed someone to quickly cobble together something. The truly funny thing is that they include fonts and a heavy css framework for three images that don't use any of that.
Did I miss the cost?
They never say it on these articles and videos. They'll say it's cheap and then the price will be $1000
Right‽ The brand new Steam Deck Killer! Better in every way, except it costs 3x as much and weighs more because it's got a giant battery (or conversely the battery life sucks).
Like, no shit you can make something more powerful, finding the happy medium of performance to battery life and then making it cost effective AND actually portable are the most difficult parts of what Steam did and those are the things the competitors just seem to completely ignore.
Finally a competitor that has Linux and uses trackpads.
Too bad they didn’t use a layout similar as the Steam deck. It’s the best layout for a handheld with trackpads. These trackpads are really far down.
Even the steam deck's touch pads could be moved up more imo however, these look to be pretty much unusable.
Manjaro... yeaaaah...well just make sure to stay away from the AUR.
Apparently it is a real device and not fake or a scam like some were suggesting. It is currently being featured at Fosdem at the KDE booth even and it seems to be featuring the SteamOS interface but seemingly on a Manjaro based os.
I assume this means they have taken the HoloISO bits like the gamescope session and interface but rebased it on Manjaro but it could also just mean they forked and rebranded it as Manjaro (and possibly delay updates for two whole weeks in the name of stability).
It's the first linux first handheld device next to the Steam Deck and even comes with two touchpads that look strikingly similar to the Deck ones but never would I have imagined it being featured by Manjaro. The specs look impressive though the design reminds me of the early Steam Deck prototypes Valve showed once that equally featured a glossy finish.
Let's see whether it earns another entry on the list of Manjaro fuckups.
Edit: Formatting
Linux preinstalled
two touchpads
7840HS
aw yeah, its gamer time
Manjaro is weird but I wonder if they'll make it some kind of Manjaro spin? IMO I'd be interested to have Bazzite or something similar on it
I understand the issues with Manjaro. But I am super excited with handhelds making a major come back. I think the next couple of years we are going to see major breakthroughs. Battery life is currently a big issue but this should be solved with more RND.
I currently play on Switch but I am getting very tempted to cross over to another device. But I will wait to see what Nintendo does next before I decide. A buddy of mine has the Asus ROG Ally which is also pretty impressive on its own.
What's the GPU?
Likely 780M
Similar numbers to the z1 extreme but on lighter software. It could be a good balance. I remember travelling through Europe with a gaming laptop and an Android tablet. The efficiency of that tablet had me using it for games and browsing so much more. Anyway, this could be gaming performance and clos to Android/arm efficiency (vs the windows handhelds)
Does it use free software drivers and firmware?
AMD's CPU and GPU firmware is non-free.
I should have specified the other components, as that's sadly a given.
This stirs my loins!!!
Consider my jimmies rustled.
really cool, I like orange pi, I will hwve to switch majaro out as soon as I get it thiugh if I get it
Orange PI is competitor to Raspberry PI... so is this meant to be a "case" for a similar priced SOC board? With GPIO pins?
Says on the image that its a 7840HS system, so same SOC as top end handhelds like the GPD Win 4, Aya Neo Kun, ROG Ally etc.