Handhelds and desktop PCs can perform differently. It's very possible for Proton to perform better for handhelds but worse for desktop PCs.

> Handhelds and desktop PCs can perform differently.

The handhelds we're talking about are -essentially- a low-power [0] laptop in a tiny case. Again, we're talking about exactly the same hardware, that provides substantially worse performance when Windows is the OS than when Linux is the OS.

For reference, here's one instance of the original coverage of the phenomenon about which I spoke: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp3UYj50Q>

[0] But higher power than one might naively expect!