Tired and curious.
The tech is around, its just expensive. Im in the process of building exactly this right now with a radxa zero (4gb ram), waveshare 4inch lcd, 4000 mah battery using pijuice ups, and an aluminum shell from shapeways. There are rails on either side to attach joycons, and you can just attach one and rotate the screen for gba/gbc etc. It also runs moonlight client for playing pc games pretty well.
Its barely thicker than the switch, maybe 3mm or so. Once I get a better battery and wire the hat myself instead of using the gpio, it should be equal.
Batocera os with some extra shenanigans for responsiveness on screen rotates, etc
All in all the project cost between 200-300 bucks, which I think is fair.(does not include the aluminum shell since Im still using plastic until I get the size down) It might struggle for the highest end ps2 games, but I got it to run armored core nexus and makai kingdom so Im happy.
Theres also that clamshell, retroid pocket flip. It runs android and can handle a lot of ps2 games pretty decently.
Yeah, it looks like they’ve tried to tone down the annoying 'touch’iness of Gnome and it has built-in support for themes, etc - but the screenshots give a very similar vine to gnome overall.
Rust-based DE from Pop OS folks thats in a ‘public alpha’ right now. https://blog.system76.com/
Unicorn is an xfce based thing for Rhino Linux fhat also looks interesting.
Not quite. The current PopOs DE is a gnome fork with ‘cosmic shell’, etc. The Cosmic Desktop Environment that has yet to be released is just a new DE written in Rust that will replace this Gnome variant in future pop versions.
They give regular progress updates here: https://blog.system76.com/
Every one here arguing about kde and gnome - Im just vibin, waiting for Cosmic to hit v1.
Still works for me on mobile and desktop.