Comment by spartanatreyu
5 months ago
There's little point benchmarking a debloated windows 11 since:
1. There is no standard debloated windows 11 to compare against since Microsoft adds more bloat each month.
2. Users aren't going to be running a debloated windows 11 anyway
and 3: its also windows 11 on the handheld - its not comparing a desktop (edit- or many desktops for that matter) with steamos on it vs some windows. (though i can see somebody debloating 11 and dropping it on the device - why not?)
> We then installed Windows 11 on the handheld, downloaded updated drivers from Lenovo's support site, and re-ran the benchmarks on the same games downloaded through Steam for Windows.
You can be sure that gamers are going to install SteamOS onto their desktops once it supports more kinds of hardware.
Yes gamers could install Bazzite right now, but those that are open to switching away from Windows aren't going to if they don't have a large company that can fund the support focused primarily on the issues that gamers are going to experience.
Related to 1, Microsoft did announce a gaming-focused "debloated" Windows 11 experience especially for gaming handhelds to release "sometime next year". It will be interesting to see what it is like as a standard, but obviously it is not out yet.
So they are scared of the Steam Deck. Good, they need the competition.
And the Switch 2.
https://www.xbox.com/en-us/handhelds/rog-xbox-ally
2. Many are if this makes their game playable and there is an easy way to debloat
It's usually easier to just install Linux from what I've seen.