I used it on a handheld gaming PC and for me it’s been pretty great mostly because the touch UI was easier for me to navigate than plasma (which I tried first). I figured since I can rebase back if I really want to it’ll be fine. I haven’t had any problems with it but I mostly use it for gaming with steam so obviously I’m not doing a whole lot of technical stuff with settings and apps.

I use gnome and I am curious about the specifics of how it lags?

Much more likely. I should have added the /s. This was a dig at their “graveyard” of apps and services.

So they can ax the projects and then blame it on staffing?

That’s reasonable. I use it because I got used to it, but I fully understand why others don’t. I miss the 2 button nav that came out right after 3 button nav but before we went full on gesture controls.

So it’s not useless and maybe some of you will use it!

It would be more useful to me with the new navigation. But I also only know one person with an android phone who still uses 3 button nav.

It’s the same way on the original Legion Go from Lenovo.

Well, while I love Bazzite, I wonder if steam os will run the built in controller on my rog ally x as a signal piece of hardware rather than 5 controllers in a trench coat. That and the fingerprint reader possibly getting a driver. But other than that I haven’t had any problems with Bazzite that I can think of off the top of my head.

I wonder if this will fix some of the built in controller issues (where the ROG Ally/x built in controls are considered 5-6 different controllers).

The problem is they are doing so in a way that is directly at odds with getting people to adopt Linux. A previous commenter on this thread already explained that this video picks “hard mode” installation with very little support after mentioning other distros that are much better suited, gives basically no sensical reason why, and basically concludes that they aren’t happy with the result. How does that help with adoption?

I paid $600 for a rog ally x on black Friday and they frequently enough go on sale that you absolutely aren’t paying $1100 for it. I also use Bazzite pretty much for everything on it (I have a windows partition but there’s on 4 games in my steam library that I didn’t manage to get working on steam OS). If you consider its use case to be more than just handheld gaming (media center docking etc), it quickly shows its versatility and use case.

I get exceptional battery life, great graphics with little to no tweaking, and while it’s not perfect I wouldn’t say the steam deck itself is perfect either.

I wish it had a differently styled D-pad. I don’t necessarily like the asymmetrical sticks (although the thumb sticks on it are some of the best I have ever used on a handheld of any kind). Once it’s got support from Valve out in the wild I’m pretty sure the rare input problem I have will go away altogether.

I really don’t like this article (it’s not very well put together and doesn’t talk about the Ally X in a way that’s fair to how good the steam deck is for its price point.

But I do really like the Ally X despite ASUS and their BS. Which I do think is something that should be mentioned more often here.

Bazzite basically is steam OS for the most part. You get generally the same experience. The only reason there is a Bazzite at all is because steam OS itself has t come to any other handhelds besides the steam deck.

They’re likely to get the same kind of benchmarks from games using steam OS or Bazzite on the same hardware.

Agreed for interface it was better but the windows 10 variant still works really well and I don’t know what the fuck they’re doing with windows 11.

I use gnome for my desktop experience and only when using the terminal or web browser do I have to use a keyboard and mouse. It’s not Android levels of perfect for touch screens, but it’s miles ahead of windows 11.

They have in fact gone backwards. Using windows 10 on my work surface in tablet mode is much preferred to the windows 11 BS involved in my ROG Ally X or the Lenovo Legion Go (which I’m gifting to my sister for Christmas). The Legion Go has a better screen but it’s still not great because windows 11 really isn’t made for tablets and they have regressed on tablet support despite selling a whole line of them.

As an alternative to thumbsticks for shooters and such. My understanding is when you get used to them they’re great for that. I was never able to get used to them on the OG steam controller.

I wouldn’t think so. They already sell the legion go at a loss and rumors of a legion go lite (which is what this device looks like) price it at around the same price as a steam deck.

The way it works with handhelds right now (Bazzite instead of vanilla steam OS), there’s certain things that have to be enabled to get the hardware side of things working (all the buttons and inputs etc), but it’s still really easy to both update and to use and I haven’t had any problems with the ROG Ally X or the Lenovo Legion Go running Bazzite. I dual boot windows (and have group policy edited pretty much all of Microsoft’s BS tracking and AI to banish it to that shadow realm) for windows only games that I couldn’t get to run reliably in proton, but I’m really happy with it and I’d imagine steam OS coming to such handhelds officially would benefit users rather than being a detriment as far as ease of use goes.

The matte screen is enticing especially with stylus support but it’s too big for what I’d use a tablet for. The pixel tablet I already have is too big, honestly.