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[cwoody63]

Been using it on my Ally docked to a tv. Pretty nice! Still not perfect though. Hopefully they keep iterating before whatever the hell Magnus is gonna be releases.

 

[Topher]

I bought a Surface Pro 8 off of ebay earlier in the year. Got it pretty cheap and use it primarily as a tablet, which isn't great, honestly. Suffers from the same problems that handhelds do with the interface being tailored for keyboard and mouse.

FSE to the rescue. Seriously. FSE is making Surface a much more enjoyable tablet experience for Surface. It could use some tweaking to bring in more apps that can be launched from the interface, but for right now, just having easy access to the web browser is a good start. This isn't threatening iPad at all, but I was going to put the thing back on ebay before FSE came out. Now I'm keeping it. That's something I guess.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I bought a Surface Pro 8 off of ebay earlier in the year. Got it pretty cheap and use it primarily as a tablet, which isn't great, honestly. Suffers from the same problems that handhelds do with the interface being tailored for keyboard and mouse.

FSE to the rescue. Seriously. FSE is making Surface a much more enjoyable tablet experience for Surface. It could use some tweaking to bring in more apps that can be launched from the interface, but for right now, just having easy access to the web browser is a good start. This isn't threatening iPad at all, but I was going to put the thing back on ebay before FSE came out. Now I'm keeping it. That's something I guess.

Does it have a web browser?

 

[reinking]

Those using, or have used, FSE and Steam. I am going to be migrating away from my Windows based PC for daily use and will be using it for gaming only. Is it better to just use FSE as a launcher and go to Steam games? Or would it be better to dual boot? I am asking mostly out of convenience over performance but if there are significant gains I am not opposed to one way over the other. Most of my PC games are through Steam.

 

[Fess]

Those using, or have used, FSE and Steam. I am going to be migrating away from my Windows based PC for daily use and will be using it for gaming only. Is it better to just use FSE as a launcher and go to Steam games? Or would it be better to dual boot? I am asking mostly out of convenience over performance but if there are significant gains I am not opposed to one way over the other. Most of my PC games are through Steam.

It may improve but for now, just use Playnite instead. You can boot directly into the Playnite full screen mode. You see 5 seconds of Windows desktop, then it swaps. After that you have all games from literally all your launchers on a very customizable menu. There is an extension so you can see the complete Gamepass library as well. And everything on Steam. Uninstalled and installed games can be browsed.

I've been using it for probably a year now. There is some jank but all in all I'm extremely satisfied with how it works.

9/10

Playnite - video game library manager

Video game library manager with one simple goal: To provide a unified interface for all of your games.

playnite.link

Xbox App Full Screen Experience doesn't give you access to uninstalled games outside of those on your MS account. That's it's biggest problem for me. It only scrape the discs like an emulator and add games already installed on the menu. Means that you have to go to Steam/Epic/GOG to install new games. And app switching can be janky, I've experienced sound issues, Xbox App menu popping up when you're in Steam, games started in the background from an invisible menu, or games not started at all, etc…

4/10



Steam Big Picture Mode is 1000 times better and if you only use Steam it's pretty much perfect. No need to do anything at all in Windows or Xbox App FSE. But if you use other launchers it needs some extra work and you can't browse Gamepass or other launchers uninstalled games. You could app swap into Xbox App FSE though but two apps competing for full focus can lead to issues.

You should try it if Steam is your focus. It's how I started my living room PC journey, felt like having a console.

8/10

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

What's the primary use case here?

Is this used to stay in the windows environment but get a perf boost from disabling non-core windows resource usage?

Is it to have access to other windows based game launchers (gog ea ubi gamepass etc)?

Or do we get both? Using the Xbox ally version of this was not impressive to me at all…almost instantly installed steam os/bazzite on the one I got.