I think AyaNeo was going to ship a device with HoloISO and then just…changed their mind. They make 100 new devices/year but can’t even try a Linux version to see how it might go…
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JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I’m not fanboy but Windows just sucks for anything portable. At first I was exited to see how manufacturers would pivot to adopt linux for their portables. Now it’s just watching flop after flop.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
bitwolf@lemmy.one 4 months ago
I read they pivoted berceuse of community complaint
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
That should tell you all you need to know about who their community is 🤣
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They’re all scared to piss off Microsoft by bringing out a Linux device.
dditty@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I’m following Bazzite’s development closely because I feel like that’ll be the saving grace for all the gaming handhelds that are windows-only at the moment. If Bazzite matches or supplants SteamOS then I might consider a device like an ROG Ally.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I would definitely consider Bazzite as a good upgrade for those devices, but until Asus fixes their warranty issue, hardware issues, and adds track pads, I’m not really interested in their hardware.
I really appreciate knowing that valve will fix any issues that come up.
averyminya@beehaw.org 4 months ago
but until Asus fixes their warranty issue,
Since before 2011, I don’t think this is happening anytime soon.
Especially with their responses over the last ~5 years/ So many controversies. So many horrible responses. I wish so dearly that people would stop buying from ASUS because they do not deserve our business.
natecox@programming.dev 4 months ago
I used bazzite on my ROG Ally for a couple of days before I went back to windows because it didn’t reliably work. Crashes abound and some games that work fine on my Steam Deck just refused to open.
Hopefully one day it gets ironed out.
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
How long ago did you try this?
I’ve been keeping up with Bazzite and Chimera, and it looks like they’ve made some progress.
The ROG Ally is listed at gold level compatibility, denoting it requires a few workarounds and has some caveats. I would not be able to get over having no control over the LEDs, so I’ll keep an eye out for a bit later as well.
rotopenguin@infosec.pub 4 months ago
I just tried installing Bazzite on a desktop, and its installer is a hot mess. The most I could get out of it was an error screen at the end, and an unbootable OS. Grub’s config file was just an error message. I couldn’t make heads or tails of how its ostree mess was ever supposed to boot, so I moved on to Debian.
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I run Bazzite on my laptop, and have no complains other than getting cunfused sometimes on the terminal, but that’s on me for forgetting it’s not Fedora per se.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 4 months ago
Same. I just can’t imagine using anything other than Linux for this kinda handheld. Like, I’m mainly a Windows user and I can’t imagine trying to use windows on my steam deck. When you want to make a gaming-focueed handheld like this, you want as much performance as you can squeeze out of the hardware. You’re not doing that with windows.
Meansalladknifehands@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I understand what you’re saying, but that doesn’t have to be true. Many of the games are made to be run on windows, windows is still a effecient os, it’s just a lot of bloat, which can be disabled. Also a lot of optimizations in nt has been done for gaming, features which are missing in the linux kernel, but there are RFCs to add nt like synchronization primitives, in the linux kernel.
Opafi@feddit.de 4 months ago
I like that contradiction.
Pretty sure it can’t, especially not “officially” by the device manufacturer and certainly not in a way that keeps those debloat settings in place over the next few large updates.
Meansalladknifehands@lemm.ee 4 months ago
How is it a contradiction, theres bloat software installed on windows, which can be disabled? Ubuntu to me is also bloated but that doesn’t mean that the OS is slow.
Yes they can be disabled, do you think governmental entities would run windows without being able to disable a lot of the features?
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 4 months ago
A) as someone else pointed out, “bloat” and “efficient” are exclusive to one another. Now, you can argue that windows is efficient in some areas and bloated in others, but “bloat” and “efficiency” are mutually exclusive when applied generally.
B) yes, most, if not all of it, can be disabled through registry edits and 3rd party hacks. However, in my experience, the more you try to debloat windows, the more unstable it gets. Then, it will all come back eventually via updates, which means you get to disable it all again. Finally, again in my experience, the more you try to debloat windows, the less stable it gets, and this carries over even when the OS reinstalls/reenables bloat you tried to get rid of. Seriously, my experience is that even after windows updates rebloat everything, the OS remains unstable, and becomes even more unstable after you debloat again. Granted this was with windows 10, but I imagine the same is more or less true for windows 11.
C) and yet, iirc, recent Linux vs Windows 11 benchmarks show Windows games running on Linux via Proton/Proton-GE anywhere from slightly slower to slightly faster than Windows, despite requiring translation layers to run; while the Linux-native games typically run faster than their Windows counterparts.
Windows is just that bloated.
Meansalladknifehands@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Bloat is in the form av pre installed software and services that can be turned of, Windows is not slow or resource hungry.
You’re the one contradicting yourself when you’re saying that linux requires a Translation layer. And the translations are not always 1:1. Please show me the benchmarks.