canis_majoris
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- Comment on Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system 3 months ago:
Not without tinkering, but isn’t that always the case with Linux?
- Comment on Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system 3 months ago:
Well, the problem is honestly just Windows. It’s not designed for mobile or touch interfaces at all, and all the telemetry and crap bloatware degrades the battery performance. If you get rid of all of that stuff it’s actually on par with the Linux equivalent.
I dual boot my Ally and I actually spent time messing around with different OSes. ChimeraOS was not ready when I had initially given it a shot (around March) and it crashed constantly and didn’t have full support for things like RGB. I also tried Bazzite at that time and it was a similarly strange experience. It’s gotten much better in the last few months. I’ve been running Bazzlite on my Ally since early July. HHD has progressed immensely and offers a lot of good control over the device.
If you start off with the IoT version of Windows, it comes with essentially nothing. The store app isn’t installed, but neither is Teams or Paint. You don’t actually have to spend time “debloating” it, since it comes more or less bloat-free. You actually have to spend more time installing dependencies and drivers than removing things. Run the telemetry disabling script and then you have a version of Windows that still sucks to use in general, but is much less awful on battery life.
- Comment on Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system 3 months ago:
Bazzite is fine. It’s serviceable enough to get the job done. The hardware is supported through a bunch of different emulation tools and bespoke applications like HandHeld Daemon for hooking into power draw and managing extra buttons.
Bazzite is based on the Holographic base that SteamOS uses, but opts for a Fedora-based immutable back-end over Arch. Running SteamOS itself is going to be better once Valve implements native support for all of these things that are covered by HandHeld Daemon, at least in theory.
Due to the non-optimal nature of both Windows and Linux at this stage, they tend to perform about equally.
- Comment on PSA: If you use Bazzite on your deck, you need to do a manual fix to get updates 4 months ago:
It’s an atomic variant of Fedora that satisfies all necessities for gaming with Linux, like coming with built in drivers and the option to install stuff like Steam and Discord during initial startup.
Atomic varieties of Linux are really cool, they are much less prone to breakage because all updates happen at once or not at all. They are just generally more stable and you can rollback easily if necessary.
Personally I just like Fedora, so my preconfigured options are either Bazzite or Nobara. I also prefer the stability of atomic variants. It’s just a solid base to work with, regardless of if you’re using a desktop or a handheld.
- Comment on PSA: If you use Bazzite on your deck, you need to do a manual fix to get updates 4 months ago:
If you use Bazzite anywhere, you need to apply this fix.
- Comment on Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not -GamingonLinux 4 months ago:
You betcha. Depending on what the next iteration of the Deck is like, I might just pick up an OLED when they go on sale.
- Comment on Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not -GamingonLinux 4 months ago:
A full install of Windows runs games fine. It doesn’t last long though. Bazzite was not working well when I tried it a few weeks ago. There are a few things that don’t work properly including no control over RGB settings.
I put the stripped down IoT version of Windows on mine. It doesn’t have anything preinstalled. No store, no teams, no xbox, no nothing out of the box. Combine that with a basic telemetry disabling script and you can have better performance. The Armory Crate app handles all of the firmware and drivers. I’m able to stretch the battery almost an hour longer.
Windows actually can run kind of alright when you get rid of all of the bullshit. It’s not going to be as efficient as Linux, and it’s sure as hell not going to be as efficient as a Linux built around a specific set of hardware. It remains to be seen what kind of optimizations MS may introduce when they build a handheld.
- Comment on The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops 5 months ago:
There are actually already a few projects that are for upcycling old Framework mainboards. You can definitely find a good case for the form factor.
- Comment on All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration 5 months ago:
It was the only way to get screenshots off the console without physically using the SD card. I had an account just for Animal Crossing screenshots.
Same with PlayStation; a lot of people had accounts just for getting screenshots they had taken off the console.
- Comment on Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers 5 months ago:
They tried it already with news media with Google and Facebook, and were basically told to pound sand. Facebook doesn’t provide news feeds in Canada anymore.
- Comment on Anyone having issues with Greenlight (xbox streaming)? 5 months ago:
As an alternative you can try using the streaming service through any Chromium browser.
Whenever I’ve used Linux to stream, it’s always been through the browser, and it’s generally worked fine for me.
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 5 months ago:
Yeah I tried it last night just to fuck around and so much stuff doesn’t work properly.
When you flip into desktop mode it just immediately crashes.
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 5 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.
- Comment on [Game] Ghost of Tsushima runs well on Steam Deck, making its PSN nonsense all the more annoying - RockPaperShotgun 5 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI 6 months ago:
I’ve always loved the pun, it’s such a great URL.
- Comment on The next Cortana: Copilot on Windows is no reason to buy a new PC 7 months ago:
They couldn’t figure it out for consumers, but their machine learning systems based around natural language processing are based on mostly the data they gathered from people using Cortana. They just pivoted her to be a business tool instead. She was also the basis for the chat bot AI tools prior to the LLMs.
They did eventually capitalize it, they just realized the consumer-facing version wasn’t working so they retooled it for corporate.
- Comment on Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours 11 months ago:
A few of my guildmates play SC as well and they try to get other people to play, but every time an open period happens, the servers always shit the bed with instability and the play experience for the new player is awful.
It’s so funny trying to hear them rationalize bad servers and inability to do basic things as just part of the experience.
- Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 11 months ago:
Did you even read my comment at all?
ROG Ally runs Windows.
- Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 11 months ago:
Xbox Gamepass games only install on NTFS. They don’t work on EXT4 or BRTFS.
- Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 11 months ago:
The Deck is incredible, and if I didn’t get the ROG two weeks before the OLED was announced, I would have probably gotten the OLED and eaten the loss of my Game Pass games.
- Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 11 months ago:
Personally I like my ROG Ally because with NTFS file system I can run all of my games, including the ones on my Xbox game pass, which is not something I can currently do with Linux-based handhelds.
That being said, I spent literally like three hours decluttering the OS because it ships with a stock Windows 11 which is full of bloat and bullshit. Spent a while with Win10privacy disabling/uninstalling all the useless crap. Why does my game console have Teams? Why does my enterprise computer have the Xbox app? Stupidity all around.
If Chimaera had better support for the ROG I’d look into dual booting, and with the chip being AMD, I have full confidence that eventually I can probably put Linux on that handheld and it will run better and last longer than it does with Windows, because of all the optimizations written into SteamOS being forked for other projects. Right now, there are some things that don’t work with Chimaera on other handhelds. I think there’s some gimmicky hacks I need to implement for the ROG for baseline things like speaker audio and bluetooth support.