6mo ago

HP are interested in making a SteamOS handheld as the Windows experience sucks

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6mo ago

HP are interested in making a SteamOS handheld as the Windows experience sucks

www.gamingonlinux.com /2025/03/hp-are-interested-in-making-a-steamos-handheld-as-the-windows-experience-sucks/

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6mo ago

HP are interested in making a SteamOS handheld as the Windows experience sucks

www.gamingonlinux.com /2025/03/hp-are-interested-in-making-a-steamos-handheld-as-the-windows-experience-sucks/

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6mo ago

HP are interested in making a SteamOS handheld as the Windows experience sucks

www.gamingonlinux.com /2025/03/hp-are-interested-in-making-a-steamos-handheld-as-the-windows-experience-sucks/

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"Your printer is low on magenta."
"Fuck you, HP, I'm not printing. I'm playing my Steamdeck"
"Not without replacing the magenta ink cartridge in your printer, you're not"
- drink magenta verification can to continue.
Fuck HP forever
- Our fucking corporate HP printer requires every single employee to make a separate fucking HP account in order to scan anything on the stupid piece of shit.
  Not to mention in CONSTANTLY freezes and crashes.
  We are replacing it. Fuck HP.
ITT: people that don't understand that more OEMs ditching Windows for Linux on flagship gaming handhelds is an incredibly good thing for Linux gaming overall, and would instead rather make the same joke over and over about ink cartridges.
- My take is that Windows experience sucks so bad that even HP won't touch it. But "HP sucks" is a very valid point.
  This can go one of two ways:
  More devices running SteamOS/Linux means more support, and helps Linux
  HP manages to make a device so bad that it makes SteamOS look bad, and hurts Linux
  The second way shouldn't even be possible, but never underestimate HP's ability to make something worse than you thought possible.
  
  I think with your second point, that if SteamOS was being launched with HP as an OEM partner from the start, similar to the way Valve launched the Steam Machines, that it would be a valid worry. But with the Steam Deck being several years old, and HP not even being an original OEM partner with Lenovo just having launched a SteamOS device, that the likelihood of HP fucking things up at this point is incredibly low. Never say never though.
- While good in the way you outline, you are underestimating HP's fuckwhittery.
- I'd read your comment, but I can't because my yellow ink is low.
What a coincidence, so does HP
Someone should tell him they already made a non-Windows handheld experience that doesn't suck! It's called the Steam Deck, and it doesn't nickel and dime you like HP products do...
- Competition is good... Let them compete with the steam deck. Competition is good, even if it just highlights how much better the existing option is
  Lack of competition is why capitalism fails - competition is literally the only good part of capitalism. Cheer it on when it actually happens
- Your gaming cartridge is running low. Subscribe to HP Gaming Express to save 10% on auto renewal orders!
- Their best product is the sauce.
- I had to support HP Personal Page back in the day. HP can't write software.
Hello is this HP Support? I have an issue with Cyberpunk. It doesn't start and when it does it crashes. The error message says no more ink in the yellow cartridge.
- Hello valued customer, please provide 59.99 a month for your new HP+ Subscription or kindly go fuck yourself.
  -HP Support
  
  Hi HP Support! Thanks for your reply! Does that 59.99 a month include the ink and paper? That’s actually a decent deal if so!
2025 will be the year of the Linux ~~desktop~~ handheld
People mock and make jokes. Of course HP is known for being shit. But don't people consider that valve also has third part guidelines that directly prevent such shenanigans. After all, valve wants to push Linux and use steam deck + third partie handhelds with certified hardware to ensure that games with anti-cheat at kernel level etc. work without any problems and that publishers can expect a trustworthy system. So that publishers can no longer get away with the bullshit excuse or have one less. I hate HP but all new competitors other than MS are welcome.
Fortunately, people don't have to buy it, but it would still have a positive effect just because it would be on the market.
Fuck HP.
Will it come with ink?
- No, only a free trial for their ink subscription service.
  *Ink subscription service required for color video output on all HP handheld devices
  
  I don't know why I want this to be real. Lmao
HP following through on this would be the funniest shit ever, IMO.
Now when replacing ink cartridges your handheld bricks too
The charging port will only be accessible after loggin in through HPSMART
the buttons will only depress a certain number of times then it will brick until you subscribe to more presses.

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