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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Cool, but the title is a big oversell.

    LookingGlass basically added a pretty fast software renderer for Windows guests. Which is nice, because it’s a pretty slick interface and works better than many of the alternatives, but it probably isn’t useful for gaming.

    The main strength of LookingGlass is for GPU passthrough setups, and this new feature doesn’t seem to be relevant for that. I’d say the stuff happening with Venus and native-context on Linux guests is more interesting (if quite new) since it doesn’t rely on a second GPU.











  • Looking at the specs:

    Positives:

    • Higher refresh rate (with VRR) and slightly larger screen (so smaller bezel), higher resolution.
    • Hall effect joysticks
    • Possibly better speakers

    Negatives:

    • IPS instead of OLED display (but a good quality one at least)
    • Only one touchpad, and its tiny
    • Seems to be only 2 back buttons instead of 4 on the deck

    Neutral / unknown:

    • Long term support compared to official Valve devices (hopefully Valve is handling this for third party devices similar to Bazzite).
    • Price seems to be the similar to the Deck OLED model (depending on region)

    Going by the Verge review of the Windows version of the hardware, it seems the SOC of this isn’t that powerful (and may even be outperformed by the Deck when rendering at 720p on both systems with some games): https://www.theverge.com/reviews/617613/lenovo-legion-go-s-review-feels-good-plays-bad

    They did see framerates improve with Bazzite, so presumably the Steam OS release will have similar improvements.