That’s… an interesting use case.

Since we’re hijacking the thread to explain the weird reasons to own a Go, I have some egonomic requirements that make large and heavy handhelds a bit or a problem. I’m also the one person in the universe that thinks the Switch Joycon are fantastic and wishes more split controllers were available, for that same reason.

Unfortunately the Go controllers are… exactly what I want botched beyond recognition, is the best way to put it. They’re too large, you just can’t grip them correctly without accidentally pressing a bunch of buttons, the d-pad is mediocre at best… definitely not it.

I hate that I’m with you in kinda wanting to give them another chance with the Go 2, but man, is that a lot of money to sink into something that isn’t that much of a performance upgrade.

Frankly, for your use case I don’t know that the Legion Go would be my pick. There are a bunch of laptops I’d rather use instead, and compact mouse options aren’t that rare. That said, a tiny Linux tablet is a pretty unique proposition. If you’re thinking of an upgrade I’d still give some thought to the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 2025 edition, which has the newer Strix Halo AMD APU and Bazzite has started supporting explicitly (still in Beta, but hey). Definitely not the previous Z13s with dedicated Nvidia GPUs, but with explicit support it may be an interesting (if VERY expensive) choice for gaming and editing workloads. They also support the Minisforum V3, but that’s not that much more powerful than the Go. They seem to be heavily discounted now, though, so maybe there’s a next-gen incoming?

And that’s my surprising takeaway for Bazzite: They seem to be the only distro doing the legwork for these dedicated portable form factors. Not just handhelds but tablets and laptops, too. It’s a bit of a shame that it’s a bit of a quirky distro to daily drive. I think it shows that there is a bit of an untapped market for something like this that the mainstream desktop distros are not targeting well. I don’t necessarily need to go to Fedora’s page and pick between twenty versions with slightly different DEs, but it’d be nice to punch in the model of my old ASUS gaming laptop and get a download that I know will support my dGPU and do proper power management out of the box the way Bazzite does with its supported devices.