It should be as universal as possible and without unnecessary functions
The young company Playtron, with $10 million in funding, presented an operating system of the same name, which may become a universal solution for portable game consoles.
Playtron is based on Linux and in theory allows you to run any launcher and any game. That is, it has the advantages of SteamOS and is devoid of its disadvantages. In fact, this is a platform for maximum cross-platform gaming, on which you can run anything conditionally, if this is possible in principle. Of course, we already have Windows as such the most universal OS, but Windows itself is not very suitable for portable consoles, firstly, because of its interface, and secondly, because of the gigantic number of functions that consoles do not required. Playtron is devoid of unnecessary software solutions that only hinder the gaming device.
At the moment, however, all this is at an early stage. Since Playtron currently does not cooperate, for example, with Valve and Epic Games, the system does not have the normal ability to install and update games through the corresponding launchers. But The Verge journalists tested the system (it was installed on a Steam Deck) on a number of games, including Death Stranding, Dave the Diver and Baltaro.
The developers plan to release a public alpha version in the next two months to allow the community to provide feedback and contribute to the code repositories. Also, the company is already negotiating with a number of manufacturers, and Ayaneo is even going to release a finished product with Playtron before the end of this year.