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+title: "Anbernic Win600 First Impressions"
+date: 2022-07-14
+series: reviews
+---
+
+Right now PC gaming is largely a monopoly centered around Microsoft Windows.
+Many PC games only support Windows and a large fraction of them use technical
+means to prevent gamers on other platforms from playing those games. In 2021,
+Valve introduced the [Steam Deck](https://www.steamdeck.com/en/) as an
+alternative to that monopoly. There's always been a small, underground market
+for handheld gaming PCs that let you play PC games on the go, but it's always
+been a very niche market dominated by a few big players that charge a lot of
+money relative to the game experience they deliver. The Steam Deck radically
+changed this equation and it's still on backorder to this day. This has made
+other manufacturers take notice and one of them was Anbernic.
+
+[Anbernic](https://anbernic.com/) is a company that specializes in making retro
+emulation handheld gaming consoles. Recently they released their
+[Win600](https://anbernic.com/products/new-anbernic-win600) handheld. It has a
+Radeon Silver 3020e or a Radeon Silver 3050e and today I am going to give you my
+first impressions of it. I have the 3050e version.
+
+A review of the Steam Deck is coming up
+soon!
+
+One of the real standout features of this device is that Anbernic has been
+working with Valve to allow people to run SteamOS on it! This makes us all one
+step closer to having a viable competitor to Windows for gaming. SteamOS is
+fantastic and has revolutionized gaming on Linux. It's good to see it coming to
+more devices.
+
+## Out of the box
+
+I ordered my Win600 about 3 hours after sales opened. It arrived in a week and
+came in one of those china-spec packages made out of insulation. If you've ever
+ordered things from AliExpress you know what I'm talking about. It's just a
+solid mass of insulation.
+
+[![The console siting on my desk with its charging brick and included cable](https://cdn.xeiaso.net/file/christine-static/img/FXozAEjUsAQEg9d-smol.jpeg)](https://cdn.xeiaso.net/file/christine-static/img/FXozAEjUsAQEg9d.jpeg)
+
+The unboxing experience was pretty great. The console came with:
+
+* The console
+* A box containing the charger and cable
+* A slip of paper telling you how to set up windows without a wifi connection
+* A screen protector and cleaning cloth (my screen protector was broken in the
+ box, so much for all that insulation lol)
+* A user manual that points out obvious things about your device
+
+One of the weirder things about this device is the mouse/gamepad slider on the
+side. It changes the USB devices on the system and makes the gamepad either act
+like an xinput joypad or a mouse and keyboard. The mouse and keyboard controls
+are strange. Here are the controls I have discovered so far:
+
+* R1 is right click
+* L1 is left click
+* A is enter
+* The right stick very slowly skitters the mouse around the screen
+* The left stick is a super aggressive scroll wheel
+
+Figuring out these controls on the fly without any help from the manual meant
+that I had taken long enough in the setup screen that [Cortana started to pipe
+up](https://youtu.be/yn6bSm9HXFg) and guided me through the setup process. This
+was not fun. I had to connect an external keyboard to finish setup.
+
+This is probably not Anbernic's fault.
+Windows is NOT made for smaller devices like this and oh god it
+shows.
+
+## Windows 10 "fun"
+
+There is also a keyboard button on the side. When you are using windows this
+button summons a soft keyboard. Not the nice to use modern soft keyboard though,
+the legacy terrible soft keyboard that Microsoft has had for forever and never
+really updated. Using it is grating, like rubbing sandpaper all over your hands.
+This made entering in my Wi-Fi password an adventure. It took my husband and I
+15 minutes to get the device to connect to Wi-Fi. 15 minutes to connect to
+Wi-Fi.
+
+Once it was connected to Wi-Fi, I tried to update the system to the latest
+version of windows. The settings update crashed. Windows Update's service also
+crashed. Windows Update also randomly got stuck trying to start the installation
+process for updates. Once updates worked and finished installing, I rebooted.
+
+I tried to clean up the taskbar by disabling all of the random icons that
+product managers at Microsoft want you to see. The Cortana button was stuck on
+and I was unable to disable it. Trying to hide the Windows meet icon crashed
+explorer.exe. I don't know what part of this is Windows going out of its way to
+mess with me (I'm cursed) and what part of it is Windows really not being
+optimized for this hardware in any sense of the way.
+
+Windows is really painful on this device. It's obvious that Windows was not made
+with this device in mind. There are buttons to hack around this (but not as far
+as the task manager button I've seen on other handhelds), but overall trying to
+use Windows with a game console is like trying to saw a log with a pencil
+sharpener. It's just the wrong tool for the job. Sure you _can_ do it, but _can_
+and _should_ are different words in English.
+
+Another weird thing about Windows on this device is that the screen only reports
+a single display mode: 1280x720. It has no support for lower resolutions to run
+older games that only work on those lower resolutions. In most cases this will
+be not an issue, but if you want to lower the resolution of a game to squeeze
+more performance out then you may have issues.
+
+## Steam
+
+In a moment of weakness, I decided to start up Steam. Steam defaulted to Big
+Picture mode and its first-time-user-experience made me set up Wi-Fi again.
+There was no way to bypass it. I got out my moonlander again and typed in my
+Wi-Fi password again, and then I downloaded Sonic Adventure 2 as a test for how
+games feel on it. Sonic Adventure 2 is a very lightweight game (you can play it
+for like 6.5 hours on a full charge of the Steam Deck) and I've played it to
+_death_ over the years. I know how the game _should_ feel.
+
+[![The starting screen of City Escape in Sonic Adventure 2, with the console propped up with a Steam Controller](https://cdn.xeiaso.net/file/christine-static/img/FXpIjhwUIAUEujg-smol.jpeg)](https://cdn.xeiaso.net/file/christine-static/img/FXpIjhwUIAUEujg.jpeg)
+
+City Escape ran at a perfect 60 FPS at the device's native resolution. The main
+thing I noticed though was the position of the analog sticks. Based on the
+design of the device, I'm pretty sure they were going for something with a
+PlayStation DualShock 4 layout with the action buttons on the top and the sticks
+on the bottom. The sticks are too far down on the device. Playing Sonic
+Adventure 2 was kind of painful.
+
+## SteamOS
+
+So I installed SteamOS on the device. Besides a weird issue with 5 GHZ Wi-Fi not
+working and updates requiring me to reboot the device IMMEDIATELY after
+connecting to Wi-Fi, it works great. I can install games and they run. The DPI
+for SteamOS is quite wrong though. All the UI elements are painfully small. For
+comparison, I put my Steam Deck on the same screen as I had on the Win600. The
+Steam Deck is on top and the Win600 is on the bottom.
+
+[![The game overview for Sonic Adventure 2 on both the Steam Deck and Anbernic Win600](https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/christine-static/img/FXqSz_tVsAAU0wf-smol.jpeg)](https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/christine-static/img/FXqSz_tVsAAU0wf.jpeg)
+
+Yeah. It leaves things to be desired.
+
+When I had SteamOS set up, I did find something that makes the Win600 slightly
+better than the Steam Deck. When you are adding games to Steam with Emulation
+Station you need to close the Steam client to edit the leveldb files that Steam
+uses to track what games you can launch. On the Steam Deck, the Steam client
+also enables the built-in controllers to act as a keyboard and mouse. This means
+that you need to poke around and pray with the touchscreen to get EmuDeck games
+up and running. The mouse/controller switch on the Win600 makes this slightly
+more convenient because the controllers can always poorly act as a mouse and
+keyboard.
+
+When you are in KDE on the Win600, you don't get a soft keyboard at all. This is
+mildly inconvenient, but can be fixed with the moonlander yet again. Here's a
+screenshot of what my KDE desktop on the Win600 looks like:
+
+[![My SteamOS desktop on the Win600, showing Crossette from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 center frame](https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/christine-static/img/Screenshot_20220714_144655-smol.jpg)](https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/christine-static/img/Screenshot_20220714_144655.png)
+
+Overall, SteamOS is a lot more ergonomic in my opinion and will let you play
+games to your heart's content.
+
+The D-pad feels really good. I love how it responds. When I did a little bit of
+Sonic Mania I never felt like I was inaccurate. There were some weird audio
+hitches on Sonic Mania though where the music would cut out randomly. Not sure
+what's going on with that. I could play through entire Pokemon games with that
+D-pad.
+
+## Conclusions for now
+
+Overall I'm getting the feeling that this device is _okay_. It's not great, it's
+not terrible, but it's okay. I need to get some more experience with it, but so
+far it seems that this device really does have a weight class and oh god if you
+play a game outside its weight class your UX goes to shit instantly. The battery
+life leaves _a lot_ to be desired so far. However it does work. It's hard to not
+compare this to the Steam Deck, but it's so much less in comparison to the Steam
+Deck.
+
+I don't know how I feel about this device. I'm not sure it's worth the money. I
+need to get more experience with it. I'll have a better sense of all this when I
+write my full review. Stay tuned for that!