News Zotac Zone 2 demoed with Manjaro Linux and an AMOLED panel — 12-core Zen 5 CPU and 32GB RAM under the hood

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Zotac's latest handheld boasts a vibrant 7-inch AMOLED panel, AMD's Ryzen AI HX 370 APU, and a custom Manjaro Linux Operating System.

Zotac Zone 2 demoed with Manjaro Linux and an AMOLED panel — 12-core Zen 5 CPU and 32GB RAM under the hood : Read more

 

[-Fran-]

Track Pads! YES!

Sorry Zotac, but I'll still use my Steam Deck. It does look great to me though. Specs and visual fetures look nice. Battery though... I hope they try and pack the biggest battery they can get away with.

Regards.

 

[hushnecampus]

Track Pads! YES!

Sorry Zotac, but I'll still use my Steam Deck. It does look great to me though. Specs and visual fetures look nice. Battery though... I hope they try and pack the biggest battery they can get away with.

Regards.

Agreed - having trackpads at least moves it out of the instant-no category.

Wonder why they want with Manjaro rather than Steam OS? I mean OK, you can still have Steam launch the Deck UI when you turn it on, but that does add an extra layer of fiddlyness, having to have a binding for alt-tab, risk of pop-ups/alert/notifications interfering, etc.

 

[ezst036]

Guess it looks like it will be people playing games who will lead us out of Windows.

Which makes sense. All of the bloat in Windows does not really negatively affect someone using Adobe Acrobat or Office 365. But all of the bloat reduces frame rates and Windows also does not fit very well on those smaller screen form factors.

PewDiePie moving to Linux and being so public about it probably is helping too.

I see a lot of articles these days that Linux is indeed fully game ready but there's only one final frontier and that's anti-cheat. Once anti-cheat is overcome that's it, Linux will indeed be equal with Windows. Windows will have the legacy edge but Linux will have the performance edge.

 

[hushnecampus]

Guess it looks like it will be people playing games who will lead us out of Windows.

Which makes sense. All of the bloat in Windows does not really negatively affect someone using Adobe Acrobat or Office 365. But all of the bloat reduces frame rates and Windows also does not fit very well on those smaller screen form factors.

PewDiePie moving to Linux and being so public about it probably is helping too.

I see a lot of articles these days that Linux is indeed fully game ready but there's only one final frontier and that's anti-cheat. Once anti-cheat is overcome that's it, Linux will indeed be equal with Windows. Windows will have the legacy edge but Linux will have the performance edge.

It's not the bloat that bugs me most about Windows, frankly I doubt it's having a significant effect on my FPS or simulation speed. For me it's the UX, specifically the way it keeps trying to sell me things and nagging me to change my mind when I've already said no. Windows essentially makes me go back through the setup wizard again every time there's a major update, and tries to get me to buy subscriptions to things.

Regarding anti-cheat though, let's not pretend that's a small hurdle. Making kernel level anti-cheat work on a system where people can use many different versions of the kernel, including bespoke ones, sounds like a big blocker to me (I don't know much about how Linux kernels work though so I could well be wrong).

 

[-Fran-]

Agreed - having trackpads at least moves it out of the instant-no category.

Wonder why they want with Manjaro rather than Steam OS? I mean OK, you can still have Steam launch the Deck UI when you turn it on, but that does add an extra layer of fiddlyness, having to have a binding for alt-tab, risk of pop-ups/alert/notifications interfering, etc.

Probably an early version of it, or perhaps they're waiting on Valve to be added as a supported vendor and going through the paces, so on the meantime, they're getting used to Linux?

Regards.

 

[MobileJAD]

I want this so bad, but for now I'm stuck with my cheaper and older Win600. And I'm perfectly fine with running a full blown Linux distro rather than SteamOS as I currently run OpenSuSE Tumbleweed Linux on my Win600 as launching Steam as a app and running my games with Proton works perfectly fine, no issues with controllers or buttons or anything. But while I'm just using my Win600 as a fun way to work through my game backlog, I wouldn't mind some more horsepower too.