Using Windows 11 for this just seems like an awful idea. They're using an already shaky OS that Microsoft has a tendency to force updates to that cause problems on desktop PCs - who knows what it'll do on something like this? Windows is also a resource hog, not what I'd choose for a presumably light-weight machine.
Windows is also not particularly great about sleeping / hibernating and resuming while games are running… that's really the greatest feature of the Steam Deck, in my opinion - just like a handheld console, you can turn it off at any point and resume your game flawlessly, in almost all cases.
Hopefully they're at least building a custom front-end for it. If they're expecting users to navigate using the normal Windows interface (or Windows' tablet interface, maybe), that's another huge problem.
Using Windows 11 for this just seems like an awful idea. They're using an already shaky OS that Microsoft has a tendency to force updates to that cause problems on desktop PCs - who knows what it'll do on something like this? Windows is also a resource hog, not what I'd choose for a presumably light-weight machine.
Windows is also not particularly great about sleeping / hibernating and resuming while games are running… that's really the greatest feature of the Steam Deck, in my opinion - just like a handheld console, you can turn it off at any point and resume your game flawlessly, in almost all cases.
Hopefully they're at least building a custom front-end for it. If they're expecting users to navigate using the normal Windows interface (or Windows' tablet interface, maybe), that's another huge problem.