- HP says he now plans to make a portable game pc thanks to Valve’s Steamos
- Steamos will soon be available on other pocket computers such as the Lenovo Legion Go S
- The reason for which HP has not yet done is because of Microsoft Windows 11
Portable game PC sales continue to grow from year to year, with a constant flow of new versions of Lenovo, Asus and MSI, but a PC manufacturer has failed in action – and the reason why not surprise.
As reported in Notebookcheck (via an interview with XDA), HP now plans to make a portable game PC propelled by the Steamos of Valve, as confirmed by its main vice-president and president of the Division of Game Solutions, Joséphine Tan. And if you were wondering why it took so long, it’s because of Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system.
Tan suggested that she had trouble using Windows 11 and also hinted at the lack of simplicity of the operating system, in particular for laptop owners when taking over the games – a feature that devices like the Nintendo switch and the steam bridge benefit. This meant that there were no HP plans for a pocket computer.
However, now that Valve Steamos will be available for other pocket computers in addition to the steam bridge (such as the Lenovo Legion Go S), Tan clearly indicated that it was open to the idea of making a portable game PC. While Steamos still has disadvantages, including its inability to launch games with cooked anti-trickered software, and no official functionality management such as the generation of frame, the user experience is undoubtedly much better than when using Windows 11 on a laptop.
Microsoft should take this as a head …
If it was not already clear enough, Windows 11 has not been one of Microsoft’s best outings in recent years: I would say that this is one of the worst that I have seen in terms of bugs and apparently endless problems (especially with its 24:2m update), and for a portable game passionate, it is simply not up to it.
Aside from the 24 -hour frustrating bugs, Windows 11 is compared to Steamos for pocket computers – and although it is understandable that there is no portable mode ” for Windows 11, because Microsoft focuses on PCs and office laptops, this is another reason why many are moving away from the operating system.
It has become so bad that I planned to install Bazzite (a steamos clone) on my main desktop pc – and test it on my ally Asus Rog for months suggests that it may not be a bad idea. In the end, this should be alarm clock for Microsoft. Windows 11, in addition to its current 24H2 problems, simply does not work for pocket computers, and with the popularity of portable game PCs showing no slowdown sign, this would be the perfect time for Microsoft to try to improve its better operating system on these devices – otherwise, it could really start to miss.
