{"id":2958,"date":"2026-05-29T23:01:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/acers-launching-a-linux-handheld-for-streaming-your-pc-games\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T23:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:01:48","slug":"acers-launching-a-linux-handheld-for-streaming-your-pc-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/acers-launching-a-linux-handheld-for-streaming-your-pc-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Acer\u2019s launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two Acer Nitro Blaze Links back to back in front of a white background\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Acer\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/acer-nitro-blaze-link-announcement-cropped.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The Acer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acer.com\/us-en\/handheld-gaming\/nitro-handheld-gaming\/acer-nitro-blaze-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nitro Blaze Link<\/a> might run on Linux, but it&rsquo;s no Steam Deck. Acer says it&rsquo;s a \u00ab\u00a0streaming-first handheld and companion device,\u00a0\u00bb like a PlayStation Portal for your PC. Announced ahead of Computex on Friday, it&rsquo;s launching in Q4 2026 with a 7-inch (1920 x 1200) display, Wi-Fi 6, just 1GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and 8GB of eMMC storage. That&rsquo;s technically not even enough RAM to run <em>Stardew Valley<\/em>, but the Blaze Link isn&rsquo;t meant for playing games locally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Logitech launched a similar handheld a few years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23405040\/logitech-g-cloud-gaming-handheld-review-game-streaming-android-xbox-nvidia-geforce-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Logitech G Cloud<\/a>, that cost $350, included 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, and ran on Android. It was a tough sell at that price consi \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/940091\/acer-nitro-blaze-link-linux-handheld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Acer Nitro Blaze Link might run on Linux, but it&rsquo;s no Steam Deck. Acer says it&rsquo;s a \u00ab\u00a0streaming-first handheld [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}