Portable Linux distro winesapOS v4.1.0 out now with dual-boot support - good for handhelds

By Liam Dawe - 19 August 2024 at 4:02 pm UTC

While most people generally talk about ChimeraOS, Bazzite and at times HoloISO, another choice for your handheld Linux gaming is winesapOS that just had a huge new release.

There's a lot of big upgrades in version 4.1.0 with one one of the major changes being dual-boot support that was tested across Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, macOS (Intel only - both on Apple hardware and Hackintosh hardware), Windows 10 and 11, and winesapOS.

Pictured - winesapOS desktop, KDE Plasma

Lots of other improvements like an upgraded Linux kernel using patches from Bazzite and Nobara, KDE Plasma 6, NVIDIA Wayland support, more file systems supported and of course expanded hardware support to include the likes of:

ASUS laptops
ASUS ROG Ally 1 and X handhelds
AYANEO handhelds
Framework 16 AMD and Intel laptops
Framework 13 AMD laptops (previously only Intel was supported)
OneXPlayer handhelds
Valve Steam Deck OLED handheld

That's in addition to everything it already supported.

See more about it on GitHub.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Distro News, Misc, New Release, Open Source

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Solarwing Aug 24

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Great!I'm just installing almost all my games into my external Samsung 1 Tb ssd drive.It's very convenient to boot winsapos up from external drive when I start up my computer. All the games will be ready to play there. WinesapOS seems very handy. For example, I can temporary turn my aunt's computer (which has windows 10 installed) into a Linux machine using this ssd drive. Ofc all the games don't work but most of them will.A big thank you to devs!

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