I'm also surprised people have so quickly gone to ASUS...has no one been watching the seriously anti-consumer stuff they've been doing with the motherboard fiasco?
@gamingonlinux I think people are totally numbed to "Company X does things that are Bad for you", because you can literally put in 99.9% of companies for X and it'll be true.
@gamingonlinux Well thanks for sharing, I somehow didn't know about that and have a Strix B650E-E with a 7700x and EXPO enabled. 😅 Set the VSoC to 1.25v to be safe. A shame that we don't have proper sensors for this on Linux by the way. 😕
@gamingonlinux I wonder if the negative press they've got lately (Jayztwocents posted a video too dropping them as a brand they'd endorse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ-QVOKGVyM) affected the Ally price at all? Make it competetive to get people talking about Asus in a more positive light? (probably didn't affect it, just a thought...)
@NO_PULSE_XBL@gamingonlinux could have been, I haven't really been paying attention, just saying it was a thought, nothing more
With how Asus has been playing a sneaky bad-faith game with trying to keep customers from letting independent people cover the issues (as per Gamers Nexus video) I wouldn't have put it past them
@brunty@gamingonlinux gotcha. Yeah. I’ve got my own Asus issues, but the FOMO kicked in when the best buy email came saying it was available for preorder. We will see which device gets my time in Two months.
@gamingonlinux I have also been quite surprised that (other than The Verge's review) there has been essentially no mention of the lack of track pads in any of the reviews. I use them loads on my Deck.
Also as The Verge pointed out, while Windows and faster CPU does open up more compatibility for new AAA games, it's not always true for older stuff (even if it was originally released on Windows). As a result the Ally seems more console (modern gamepad compatible games only) like then the Deck.
@matt From multiple reviews that didn't just dote on it because they got a review unit...there's lots of downsides. No trackpads, ASUS' software is quite rubbish, some buttons get stuck etc.
@gamingonlinux No surprise really, I'm very interested to see what people think when it comes out and all the hype dies down. I would like a more powerful handheld but I doubt the Ally will be it.
@gamingonlinux I don't really understand why anyone would want the Ally tbh. Nearly every review has pointed out its largest failing - the poor user experience.
It can't even do the basic console thing of suspending your game when you suspend the console. It doesn't pause the game when you go into a menu etc...
They seem to have missed the point of a portable console.
@gamingonlinux My dad had recently bought a laptop from ASUS and swears by them, so I'd been focusing a lot of my laptop researching on ASUS laptops, but now I'm starting to have my doubts that I should give them my money.
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Ive heard two youtubers complain about the same hardware issue on the retail ASUS: sticky buttons, specifically the X button. This issue was also there on LTTs pre-production device.
ASUS are poised to be in a really good position selling this but if their QC and support cant keep up, they'll be dead in the water.
@gamingonlinux I feel like there are always YouTube reviewers who gloss over really important things when comparing products, and one of them is customer service. ASUS has a terrible reputation in the industry, even before the recent fiasco, so much so that some of their partners have cut ties. Valve has quite the opposite reputation.
@gamingonlinux I'm not so much sticking with the steam deck as I am sticking with valve and the steamdeck OS. I'd dearly love to see a new suitably-more-powerful desktop from Valve. Not to have to run windows is a good thing. Not to be forced to fiddle around too much to make things work, but still be able to open the hood, is a great thing.
@gamingonlinux You mean to say that @gamingonlinux is going to keep using the #Linux device with a better HID and a better UX instead of switching to a Windows machine? Whoda thunk? ;)
How long before someone optimizes #holoiso for it to make the "we have one at home" version of a #steamdeck?
@gamingonlinux well when you can’t buy a steam deck and they get denied ad importing but the ASUS will be available in your country you’re going to go for the ASUS.
@gamingonlinux The Verge's observation that there are actually more games on the Steam Deck to play than on the Ally due to the Ally's lack of Steam Input was super interesting. The controller adjustments are far less robust, there's no way to bind the gyro to mouse, and the lack of community made controller configurations is a huge blow to the thing. Also, no one is really talking about it all that much, but the lack of touchpads is a huge issue for anything running a desktop OS.
@gamingonlinux Same. I love the creativity Valve put into building it, the stability of Linux, the touch pads as my mouse. The ally on the other hand seems to be the generic downgrade. Back to windows, Armoury Crate was already a buggy mess on my desktop pc, so getting it to work reliably will be quite the challenge I think. And the specs do in my opinion not look thaaaaat good to make me accept the drawbacks :/
Honestly, I can't imagine Windows on a device like this.
Game Mode is almost perfect for gaming, no interruptions, no Windows Update randomly restarting the machine, no random prompts to log into services that you don't need. Push the power button and it sleeps, push it again and you can keep playing.
Desktop Mode could be better, MS has had a long time to make a tablet-style OS.
@gamingonlinux Steamdeck for the win 🤘 (not windows 😄). It always surprises that peeps put Windows on it. 🤮 The (gaming) experience and tweakability is amazing as is. 💪 Based on SD availability in some geos I can understand that peeps don't want to wait anymore and go for an alternative.
@ianmorrison@gamingonlinux What is it that you’re missing? I kind of hope the #SteamDeck to have an almost Nintendo Switch like life time – becoming a stable target for devs to target and thus introducing some predictability in the PC performance space
@voxpelli I'd like a bit more power. Right now I run a Nobara Linux PC connected to my TV for gaming. I'd quite like a SteamDeck that is slightly more powerful, so that I can use it as an upgraded replacement for that PC but also have the added bonus of handheld. Although, I was tempted to buy a SteamDeck in the recent sales.
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