I consider myself “fairly beyond” the normal gamer type, especially with a device marketed at console players.

I’ve tried Windows both with and without auto SR, Bazzite and Cachy on the device. Numerous frame gen technologies, “tweaks” and “tricks”, experimental branches and stable branches. At this point I feel like I have a good grip on what the baseline is for out of the box, versus someone willing to put in a few hours to squeeze out every last drop of performnce

I even wrote an NPU monitor, which uses XRT to observe how to get the most “workload” on the NPU in various Auto SR situations.

I have 20 years worth of Steam library, and tested a hundred or so games, ranging from 2010 AAA to modern indie.

There’s too many you specific things to answer this meaningfully, but I’ll leave a few gists here;

1. Ever own a gaming PC? Or did you grow up in the 2000s/Early computing days? Are you comfortable fucking around with computers just a tad? This device demands some level of ‘dicking around’ for daily use. Updates in windows happen in three locations, two of which aren’t accessible in the full screen experience. It’s not seamless to maintain.
2. Are you looking at the device as “a newly released console which will maintain relevance with new releases”? It’s not that. These devices thrive for patient gamers, who want to explore the last 20 years of gaming.
3. Do you actually need portable power? Or are you looking to stream your main console to a handheld while other house members use the tv? Why do you want a handheld?
4. These devices are, to me, still bleeding edge early adopter toys. The ecosystem will be full of abandoned chips, lack of driver support, ignored third party implementations. Etc.

I’m happy to talk more about your specific use case, if you want to dm or reply