Minisforum EM780 + Xreal Air 2 + Debian Testing - Lemmy.World

This thing is tiny and coupled with XReal or Viture glasses it makes for a very portable, very powerful game system that is much faster than many handheld systems without the weight and neck strain. In contrast, with the Steamdeck I found myself preferring a kb/mouse or pairing another controller and it was hard to find a comfortable position to play from without hooking it to a monitor. Debian Xfce testing (Trixie) [https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/] works really well though I had to install some packages such as joystick and blueman and a few steps [https://wiki.debian.org/Steam] to install Steam, the effort was well worth it. I did not want a SteamOS distro because I’d prefer Debian’s package management and I like the support and versatility this distro has. Weak points of using the XReal is that the edges are a little out of focus and one might need prescription inserts (I do not). Otherwise, they are very lightweight and I can be comfortable anywhere. They are also great for watching movies plugging into a phone that has display port capable usb-c (though I recommend a dongle that allows charging the phone while viewing). The glasses also have 3DOF that can be used to move your view (as a mouse or joystick would) while gaming but that requires a driver [https://github.com/wheaney/XRLinuxDriver]. Coupled with SideBySide 3D mode on the glasses and in Minetest [https://www.minetest.net/] it’s very immersive!