@Lightkey: Yes, I wasn't talking about Pyra specifically. I was answering to @kingu who said that "Desktop Linux|GNU isn't geared towards 480px vertical resolution, on a screen too small for comfort". I.e. of course you shouldn't try to fit desktop UI on a small screen. It's counter productive.

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Deep Silver never managed to release Linux versions of their Metro games on GOG. So I kind of don't care by now.

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@kingu: I don't see a point in trying to use a desktop UI on a mobile device. Just make a mobile UI. Linux doesn't limit you. That's what Sailfish and Plasma Mobile are doing. And they are using Wayland compositors for that.

And as for small / portable computers, while it's not a handheld, it's one portable beast mini PC:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10343/the-intel-skull-canyon-nuc6i7kyk-minipc-review [External Link]

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You can find cheaper computers with keyboards which you can fit in your pocket that can also run proper glibc Linux :) For example Sony Ericsson XPERIA Pro (you can run Nemo / Sailfish / Plasma Mobile on it)

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Quoting: LinasEven if it powerful enough to run games, what exactly could you run on it? A few open-source games maybe. Gaming on ARM CPU on Linux is so niche that it's not even quantifiable. A low power i386 CPU would have made this way more useful.

I suppose you can play games that have open source engines. That includes anything playable in ScummVM, AGS adventure games (there are quite a bit of recent ones), and various open engines reimplementations. So it's not nothing. I wonder how playable is Full Throttle or Loom on such device with its controls.

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Reminds me of my Nokia N950 with Harmattan Linux.

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I'll buy it probably. Flashback was a pretty good game.

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I think this driver looks more promising completeness / features wise: https://gitlab.com/dennis-hamester/scd [External Link]

It would be great if someone would add a GUI for configuring the controller with it.

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As I commented before - I'm not that impressed by the fact of Steam client running there, because fail0verflow already did all the heavy lifting and even enabled 3D acceleration (not sure though if they already switched to amdgpu or still use radeon). So basically any Linux application would possibly work.

But what so far is missing are benchmarks of demanding games. Bastion isn't the best example. Something like Witcher 2 or Shadow Warrior running on PS4 on Linux with acceptable performance would be really impressive.

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Quoting: coesetaDoes anyone else experienced the problem when moving the mouse/camera that it kind of stops at the window frame? Doesn't even matter if I use window mode or full screen, same problem in both modes.

It started happening to me when I changed InputUpdateInterval from 8 to 4 to reduce UI lag. Setting it back to 8 fixed the turning issue.

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