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As far as the arm processor goes, there are a ton of Android handhelds on the market. Obviously an android gaming handheld though is limited compared to something like the steam deck, but ARM processors are a lot more power efficient than x86 processors which is great for handhelds.
There are projects like box86 that are trying to get traditional PC games running on Linux ARM hardware, I'm guessing they'll be the core of what Playtron is working around.
If Playtron contributes to that project, it could actually be really good for the future of Linux. That said I'm worried that nothing will actually come from this project, or that they won't upstream their improvements. I suspect the future of PC's will be ARM or RISC, so any projects that improve ARM backwards compatibility with x86 will be good for the future.
I was mostly thinking about ones that can play PC games as Android ones are kind of their own thing. Box86 seems like an interesting project but I'm wondering how feasible it is for a project like this - do you have any experience with it and if so, is there any noticeable performance hit when playing?
I'm certainly interested in the possible power efficiency improvements coming from such project so I hope my initial response turns out to be just an unreasonable wariness when this thing comes out. All we can do is wait for now, I guess.