Latest Verge article about their review of Asus ROG Ally X (and this is why gamers are preferring Steam Deck)

I was in a computer shop a couple of weeks ago and it seems the windows handheld makers are doing the same shit they have on their laptops - it was filled with pre-installed bloat, including some shit Norton antivirus 1 year subscription.

Something you never see reviews mention, which is crazy.

For those brave enough, this year I finally took the plunge and went with Linux on my desktop.

I went with Pop OS, and after a few days decided to try the cinnamon desktop env. since it's a little more familiar. Some things took about a week to get figured out, but now I don't ever want to go back.

I know logically that people can do whatever they want and it doesn't affect me in any way so I shouldn't care, but I do still get a visceral eye-twitching feeling whenever someone talks about installing Windows on a Steam Deck. It's like someone buying a sports car and using it to tow a caravan or something.

They just can't help themselves, lol.

All that bloat is bad enough on a laptop, but its the absolute last thing a handheld needs, both for performance/battery and ergonomics.

User Experience matters. And Valve knows that very well.

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Someday, Windows might be as good at gaming as Linux.

Windows is cancer

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP HANDHELD

Hopefully articles like this get more companies contributing to steamos/proton

If you want Steam Deck experience on these handhelds, take a look at Bazzite. It already supports the Ally X. Runs like a dream on my Legion Go.

Just 45 minutes for windows updates? Must be a bitching internet connection.

Eventually Microsoft is going to be forced to adapt and make an operating system that doesnt use 20% of your system resources, right?

surely they wont continue to make the same bloated, sluggish OS every year since windows 7 right?

Uncomfortably rare Windows L

I just wont consider other hardware until its fully supported by something as seamless and smooth as the steamOS experience.

After the Stephen catastrophe, I can never read the Verge without thinking how utterly inept they are.

Windows/Xbox needs a handheld specific OS for these devices.

But my guess is if it they ever do have one, it's first going to be on their own handheld.

After that other companies can pay a steep price to have it on their handhelds, I bet.

Ordered mine. Unfortunately Steam doesn't sell those officially here. Had to order through third party seller and pay more than what muricans pay while earning less. 😭

I have the original Ally and a Windows laptop for one reason: I can't play Destiny on Linux. That's my main game. I don't want to get my account suspended for playing on Linux. So, I deal with Windows, even though it sucks.

I get that windows sucks, but having used both the screen on the ROG is just sooooo much better. Text looks much more crisp and I do have the option to run some other launchers and games I couldn't on the deck. Also the download speeds are way faster for some reason.

I mean I have the original ROG Ally and just threw Bazzite on it, I was able to pick it up for close to $300 used

I can sympathize but I hate using the controller setup, I'm definitely a mouse and keyboard person. For better or worse I'm stuck with Windows unless Steam comes out with a desktop or something.