The first console with AMD Ryzen Z1 APU released ASUS ROG Ally features Zen4 and RDNA3 architectures. The day has come, says AMD. ASUS has finally launched its ROG Ally gaming console based on AMD hardware. This is the first handheld console developed by ASUS and the first console to ever feature the AMD Ryzen […]
This is the main reason I won’t be getting rid of my Steam Deck for the Ally. Setup was super smooth, and for the most part everything just works. Barring a few issues with proton here and there, but I haven’t had many with the games I play. Windows on a handheld sounds like a craptastic idea to me.
Especially if you don’t want to log in with Microsoft’s spyware account. You need a keyboard to hit a cryptic keybind to get to a console to enter some stupid command to bypass the hard requirement of having Internet to set up the device, which purely exists to force you through the Microsoft account login process. It’s absolute bullshit. Windows 11 is a disaster. I plan to ditch Windows entirely on my Ally but need it just long enough to finish reverse engineering the RGB control.
the steam deck OOBE was genuinely fifty times smoother than this :|
This is the main reason I won’t be getting rid of my Steam Deck for the Ally. Setup was super smooth, and for the most part everything just works. Barring a few issues with proton here and there, but I haven’t had many with the games I play. Windows on a handheld sounds like a craptastic idea to me.
Especially if you don’t want to log in with Microsoft’s spyware account. You need a keyboard to hit a cryptic keybind to get to a console to enter some stupid command to bypass the hard requirement of having Internet to set up the device, which purely exists to force you through the Microsoft account login process. It’s absolute bullshit. Windows 11 is a disaster. I plan to ditch Windows entirely on my Ally but need it just long enough to finish reverse engineering the RGB control.