Ya know. Ive been a 1st, 2nd and now 3rd support tech in ms desktop and server operating systems for 19 years. I know it inside and out. And its a mess now. The telemetry, the control pannel changes, the inability to control what you want outside the box without messing with the registry or installing 3rd party tool's, ms taking stuff away then adding something else without your permission, the ads and now ai crap ... just to name a few. It used to be you paid for your software and it was yours, your computer, your os. It doesnt feel like that anymore. Its slowly moving little by little to a saas model. So i had enough. 16 months and counting i switched to linux for my home desktops and servers. I still use ms in work but thats it. And i am never going back. I bought a rog ally 3 days ago. Within 1 hour of it being out of the box it had bazzite on. I didnt even boot it in to windows. Ms has broken the pc industry with its greed and monopolistic stance. So fk em.
Amazing comment. Pinning this. Of all people you should know, my next video will be about debloating windows. Bloaty nosy has been my go to. What is your take on that?
@CyberDopamine never used it mate. I used something with Windows 10. Can't remember what it was though. I needed to kill the auto update and telemetry and basically create a dumb windows 10 os that ran blue iris for my cctv cams.
Finally someone touches on the EXTREMELY KEY FEATURE of sleep mode on a game! That was literally what made me get a Steam Deck, because using a switch that changed substantially how I play games and get on the habit of finishing them. Having that on a machine like the Ally is KEY for me
It’s so clutch having sleep/wake functionality. And with all the quality of life improvement made on the Ally X, it’s almost the perfect handheld device.
@@Will_Bx_NYC_718 yep! Im super happy ally folks are getting the true steamOS experience! I love my deck and had I known ally would end up getting that functionality I would have just gotten one when X came out
Happy to report that sleep works okay most of the time on my Ally. I say most of the time because I think it didn't work with Mafia: Remastered Edition, but everything else works including RDR2 and Hogwarts Legacy, which I'm playing now.
My only concern is that further down the line he will have a ton of subscribers and will then start acting like all of the other youtubers with their over exaggerated personalities and this over the top hyped up content. Cyber is at the moment thorough but to the point, which is what I like the most, hopefully that doesn't change.
The suspend feature is probably the most important feature, TBH. Especially for 90m+ playtime I used it all the time when I closed my 2DSXL and on my NS. Pretty much constantly Especially in my games that last me 6h-10h on average, having that suspend feature on my Steam Deck OLED has been the most prominent and crucial part of my experience. I'm not playing on my Deck for like 8h straight. I'm always turning it off when I take a shit or need to eat. And just turning the system off mid game and putting it on the charger is so nice Suspend feature should honestly be tippy top priority for handheld experience, 2nd only to Power Efficiency and Battery. If a handheld can't do this, there's honestly no value in it as a portable/convenient gaming device
Installing Bazzite was well worth the time it took. The sleep/wake function alone is worth the install. I shut down my Ally X last night at 1030pm and just picked up at 7am. The battery only drained 1%, and the game was exactly where I left it. On windows would’ve had to reboot the entire OS, open up Steam, wait for the game to load up again. Also an older video of you installing Bazzite on the legion go and OH Ally helped me reflash Bazzite back to Ally X. I did something to screw up my install and could renal Bazzite because it would fail due to having a Bazzite EFI already.
CD, ur vids are awesome, chill, and relaxing to watch I can’t think of any improvements u can make ur vibe is just awesome especially with the way you take ur time to speak and express your thoughts. Many content creators have scripts and all and regardless if you’ve got notes to read off of or not you make it sound real, other creators kinda lack the human aspect because of purely reading off a script with a different tone of voice. Keep at it man much love brother 🫡
Yes do it immediately. I installed a 4TB SSD in mines and dedicated 2.5 tb to Bazzite and the other 1tb to windows. Mainly for games that either don’t run on Linux or are too much trouble to get to work.
@@Hybrid225that’s what I want to do I hope we’ll get an update on it soon. had my steam deck lcd since it Launched and I’ve absolutely loved it expanded my gaming had so much fun emulation and expanded my 64gb to a tb ssd. Now I finally want to update to something stronger and longer batter life and I’ve being waiting and going back and forth on whether to just upgrade to and oled or an ally x til the update for steam os coming to other pc handhelds on its own
If anybody wants to stick to windows (for things like gamepass), you can use a launcher like Playnite to give you the console experience. You can also use something like Handheld Hardware Tools which gives you a bunch of gamepad shortcuts, like opening Steam Big Picture mode, opening a menu to control TDP, etc. The only downside still would be Windows hibernate being bad for games.
I see you took my advice on when to ask for advice and telling people to subscribe! Your flow was already better this video despite the lack of segments, and the clip at the end adds familiarity. You're getting it boss, keep it up!
If you have an Ally X, or other windows handle held install Bazzite. It’s worth the time and hassle it takes to install. Over all time from downloading the image, flashing a usb drive, and installing on your device takes about 1 and a half hours.
I like the idea of bazzite , also like the Ui from steam much simpler. Liked enough to install bazzite on my ally x I was let down once it came to it not as snappy. Games wouldn’t work out of the box. Yes windows isn’t the greatest but I don’t have to tinker with protons and experiment with all that just to play a game, with windows I just launch game and it works. And now after reinstalling windows my ally is a bit buggy so idk. I keep seeing all these videos of how great bazzite is unfortunately that wasn’t my experience
Yep, I think most people gloss over this when comparing SteamOS with Windows. They compare SteamOS at its best with Windows at its worst. For me, I have a Steam Deck OLED, and if I need to play a game that’s not verified, it tends to be more work on average to get it working.
Just a second. Why wouldn’t you have the game running and put Legion Go to hibernation? I have been using for 6 months, I use hibernation all the time, absolutely 0 problem. The only downside is those 13 seconds it takes to turn on. No battery draw, no bugs, works really well.
Great video. My Legion Go is in for repairs at the moment, but when I get it back I will try CachyOS handheld. Looks like a nice Bazzite alternative as well.
I'm gonna get the Zotac Zone. The battery life may not be as good as the Ally X's or the Deck OLED's, but I'm looking for pre-installed Hall Effect joysticks and triggers.
THIS is why I have consoles at home. If I truly wanted to game away from the house something I would want a little system like we had in the olden days before electricity…something like the PSP/Vita or DS/DSi/3DS/ Gameboy
If you connect your Lego make sure to put fan speed on full blast because it will overheat, once you disconnect it and it charges you can go back to normal fan speed, that usually solves my overheating issue.
CachyOS Handheld is what I use on my Steam Deck and I got around 20% boost just from swapping the system that looks and works exactly the same as SteamOS
I installed Bazzite onto my ALLY X, everything is working great except the HHD plugin to change TDP isn’t showing in the deckyloader in quick settings. It is only able to be used with the back buttons to enable, was wondering if that’s how it is supposed to be or I can get it into quick settings, great job on these videos absolutely love your content keep it up!!
Would love to see how you demonstrate the ally x full potential , e.g monitor / portable projector. On the go 2player experience , multitasking a game and watching sport in a seperate browser. Most importantly how a heavy keyboard controlled game like squad is possible on a handheld.
Keep doing what you're doing! Finally I've found a (tech) channel with humanity instead of these cold, over-produced and scripted guys talking without any kind of real emotions. Sure, I like facts and well-crafted sentences as much as the next guy, but you have a way of communicating that really stands out and is fully authentic - something that many other channels lack, unfortunately. You've got Real Personality, is what I'm trying to say, and that makes your videos a delight to watch! It reminds me of the early days of UA-cam, when people just uploaded videos made with heart instead of them all conforming to whatever is trendy. The era where UA-camrs like Chris Stuckmann or MKBHD just put the camera on and Made something, without all these flashy edits or perfectly scripted things to say. When they still were raw and real. (Not to badmouth other creators with millions of subscribers, they probably work very hard to make their videos - it's just that bigger channels often feel very soulless nowadays!) Keep doing you, it's really a breath of fresh air watching and hearing you talk about (tech) stuff in this passionate way of yours. Truly no other does it like you! Subscribed 🍻 Kind regards, Jerry
I think windows is perfectly fine and preferable for people who want to easily mod their games. It's also possible to set steam to automatically boot into big picture mode when it starts up. To each their own tho
Yeah its great on legion, very easy to use if you use it like a tablet with your fingers, boots into windows in 20 seconds and with lossless scaling can play every game at 144fps (this especially made bazzite pointless for me as i dont think you can use it)
Great video man! I'm definitely interested in trying out Bazzite. Just curious if I'm dual booting do I still have access to all the game in the storage or do I have to install them twice if I want to play the same game in Bazzite and Windows?
Windows allows you to use Lossless Scaling for frame generation which I use all the time on my Rog Ally Extreme. I love Steam OS it is just frame generation makes so much difference on a handheld….
Would have been better to go through BazziteOS platform and some comparaison from SD vs BazziteOS ROG in FPS. Honestly, I feel so cheated because ROG ALLY + BazziteOS is the ultimate combo rn and my oled feels a bit...lackluster without that exclusivity. I should have known :(
Loveee your content man 🫶 I think I agree with all the other comments, you make it feel very natural and welcoming to watch. Not that I don’t enjoy benchmarks and graphs lol, but the way you do it just feels very authentic. We can tell you put a TON of effort in your videos, you embrace the process of making them, and then you gladly walk us through it. You should be proud of your work 🫡🫡🫡
Hi. I have been watching your videos lately.. 800 is just way too expensive for me at this time for the Ally X (more like 900 to 1000 actually in my country). Will Steam Deck OLED suffice? I'm very concerned wirh the pixel density of the SD OLED though. It's much lower then even a Switch OLED.
I’m not sure about bazzite, but RDR2 mods run great on steam deck oled with a little tweaking. Rampage and lml work with a little tweaking and slightly different than windows.
Windows isnt hard to work with. What are you guys struggling with? And you can set steam to automatically open at startup and in big picture mode.. and this has been the case for at least a decade. The rest of your points are fair though
Ally guys have been gaslighting me into thinking Windows suspend/resume works just as well as on Steam OS. You confirming that no, it doesn't by a long shot, is very reassuring. I wish every handheld review didn't just completely ignore syspend/resume experience when reviewing Windows handhelds.
He gaslight you on that? The sleep/wake function on the Ally running windows abysmal once you press the power button it’s takes up to 39 seconds to get back into windows, and the game may or may not suspend correctly. But you just never know. Since windows isn’t design to be a console that was never a feature considered. Bottom line like he said Microsoft needs to step their game up. Or this will be yet another market they lose horribly in because they refuse to get with the times. With majority of handhelds running their OS, they need to create a light weight OS focused on gaming first.
Are you gonna cover the Zotac Zone too ? I was gonna buy a rog ally x when it goes on sale in 6 months but I just learned about the Zone and it sounds like a rog ally killer with these better ergonomics, adjustable triggers and the OLED screen It be interesting to hear your honest opinions when it drops , you are one of the very few handheld youtubers who is honest and not paid by other companies to say good things and no bad things
Hey bro! I really need an advice from you, what should I get, Steam deck or Rog Ally x ? I have a large library on Epic games and afraid i won't able to play them on a steam deck , but at the same time i am adraid of windows 11. Will windows glitch olin a year on Rog ally ? Do i have i to reinstall windows 11 ally 2 times in a year ?
Is the ally X worth the upgrade from the ally ? I've got the original ally and I'm gonna put bazzite on it but just wonder if I should wait for the ally 2 instead which will eventually come
I didn't own any handheld, but done some research because I want to buy SD OLED or ROG Ally X. From what I read and watch most people said that if you have Ally no need to spend another $$$ for the X, you better buy good brand powerbank with that money and get roughly the same batteries with less money, you also can upgrade the storage and still get some $ left. Unless you're the one who want to have and use the newest one, I think it's better to wait for the Ally 2. And I think ASUS seems to release a new handheld like very fast, like almost yearly. Sorry for my bad English, hope you can understand what I'm saying.
As an owner of the original Ally I can say the Ally X is a noteworthy upgrade. But it comes down to what important to you. For me battery life, storage, ergonomics were most important. The Ally X has a battery that last 1.5x longer the OG Ally, easier and more storage options. You can install a 2280 SSD up 8tb, the OG Ally can only install 2230 SSD, which max out at 2TB and are very expensive. I mean you can do some jackets to fit normal sized SSDs in the Ally if want to, but I’m not comfortable doing that. And it come with two usb C ports. Also has faster ram, and more ram which is paramount for handheld systems since they share ram for the cpu and gpu. Overall I’m happy with it, but it comes down to your budget.
No get the legion go, much much better screen, detachable controllers (i use all the time), stand to stand it up, these are all things you won't live without once you have tried it. Lossless scaling made the better battery on the x pretty much obsolete as you can play in battery saving mode and still get great fps (on plane i played for 3 hours on the go and it used 30% battery). Only tangible advantage on the x is the ram but again doesn't matter now with lossless and on paper i can't see it making much of a difference anyway
There is a decky plugin that makes it easy to run cheat trainers. And modding... well I never had a problem modding baldurs gate 3, minecraft, rimworld, factorio, isaac, risk of rain 2, stardew, etc... so I don't really know where the problem lies in comparison with windows
Bazzite is cool, but it's underbaked. As convenient as it can be. I still feel like we're better off with Windows for now. That should change once steam OS comes
For the best experience without installing bazzite, I just enable steam startup in big picture mode. On my OG Ally I even disabled the log in. Straight into it. No fingerprint. But I also use my Ally X as a laptop sometimes. So I'm leaving windows for now lol.
I have a 2020 Razer Blade laptop and that thing is frustrating. Every time I turn it on there are a ton of updates that make it run like a slideshow. I should never have updated it to Windows 11 since it got even worse after that. It also cooks, sounds like a jet engine, and needs a big honkin power brick. Can something like this run on and be easily installed on a windows laptop? I know it's basically Linux, but I've never tried it to see if it's a better experience than the hunk of poo I'm dealing with now or if it's worth it. Then there's all the bloaty garbage Razor needs to optimize itself, set fan speeds, lighting, etc.
Why does BazziteOS not support mods? I don't know about GTA but at least on the steamdeck i can mod games without problem and also use steam workshop. But again, I don't know how modding gta V works.
Bazzite might have been worth it before lossless scaling got as good as it is, but I'm playing everything at 144fps now on legion go. Also it does not take 5 minutes lol Legion is in windows within 20 seconds, and i had dark souls 3 loaded and lossless scaled by 1 minute 20 mark. Also let's not forget legion is basically a tablet as well, i use it for checking things quick on the web, UA-cam etc using 3 finger gestures and so on its very easy to use when you start using it like that, and of course can play any game which Bazzite or sd can't do
Hey so, Cyber, I got an important update for you. The newest Windows update bricks Dual Boot. Secure boot fucks it up. So you wanna avoid updating any Windows Handheld with Bazite until that's fixed. Microsoft does have instructions on how to fix it, and I assume you already know but just in case you don't, now you do.
Yo, loved your tutorial. Even saw it on the Official Bazzite website. So sick. What should i do if the built in BazziteOS update tool fails? Is there a manual way to grab the current build and apply it as an update?
I've tried it it was amazing the first time had to remove it because the suspend wake function and Wi-Fi disconnection on suspension wasn't working properly is it working properly for you?
There's just no way windows would change nothing for handhelds because of Linux's increase In popularity. They don't give two shits about valve and the handheld market, I'd go as far as to say that they don't care about Xbox as a whole to this point
But with dual bot (bazzite x windows) you can choose to play other games in windows when you want, right? (Asking bc I’m considering do this when I get my Ally x)
I dont know what I did wrong when I set up my dual boot on the ally x but for some reason my wifi card just refused to work with bazzite. It worked when I first booted it but after that I couldnt connect to wifi at all when on bazzite.
If only games like the new call of duty games worked on Linux. Want to buy my girlfriend a legion go but I think windows gaming might be overwhelming for her. Bazzite would be amazing for her but yeah we wanna play call of duty.
Get the legion dude its awesome, the software is much better now than it used to be, one click of a button and it boots into the legion software where you just select your game and your off, you won't regret it
if there was lossless scaling and afmf2 i would switch but till then nah.I use both my handheld as my main pc with onexgpu on1440p monitor or in the bed
This is true, i feel so many people still don't know about lossless so they are doing all this work to get a few extra frames while we are sitting here on windows playing at 120fps+ on every game lol
When steam realeases oficial steam OS support im ditching windows, windows aint that bad but I can use my laptop if I really need windows for some reason, a handheld experience is much better with steamOS
0:28 That's why mobile games are popular in asia, but PC gamers elitists don't think mobile gamers are real gamers. I used to play on PC, but i barely had enough will to sit again in front of my PC to play game after a long day in the office. That's why i really love to play game on my iPad mini. And with handheld gaming umpc more and more powerful, it's only matter of time before i finally ditched my iPad mini for gaming. I'm glad finally more people understand why handheld is great.
Ya know. Ive been a 1st, 2nd and now 3rd support tech in ms desktop and server operating systems for 19 years. I know it inside and out. And its a mess now. The telemetry, the control pannel changes, the inability to control what you want outside the box without messing with the registry or installing 3rd party tool's, ms taking stuff away then adding something else without your permission, the ads and now ai crap ... just to name a few. It used to be you paid for your software and it was yours, your computer, your os. It doesnt feel like that anymore. Its slowly moving little by little to a saas model. So i had enough. 16 months and counting i switched to linux for my home desktops and servers. I still use ms in work but thats it. And i am never going back. I bought a rog ally 3 days ago. Within 1 hour of it being out of the box it had bazzite on. I didnt even boot it in to windows. Ms has broken the pc industry with its greed and monopolistic stance. So fk em.
Amazing comment. Pinning this. Of all people you should know, my next video will be about debloating windows. Bloaty nosy has been my go to. What is your take on that?
@CyberDopamine never used it mate. I used something with Windows 10. Can't remember what it was though. I needed to kill the auto update and telemetry and basically create a dumb windows 10 os that ran blue iris for my cctv cams.
I'm i the only one buying Handheld, to watch more videos about the handheld than playing on it because im too tired.. LOL
- Tired Dad
its to find what others think or just new things about it that we don't know
nope, not alone... same here... kinda sucks :)
^buys handheld, get emulators running, watch UA-cam on a newer handheld.
are you me? Also, spending time going between pages in steam because I can't pick what I want to play.
32 year old dentist dad, have ally, deck and ally x bought a week ago never opened.. we 90s gen have money but no time.
Finally someone touches on the EXTREMELY KEY FEATURE of sleep mode on a game! That was literally what made me get a Steam Deck, because using a switch that changed substantially how I play games and get on the habit of finishing them. Having that on a machine like the Ally is KEY for me
It’s so clutch having sleep/wake functionality. And with all the quality of life improvement made on the Ally X, it’s almost the perfect handheld device.
@@Will_Bx_NYC_718 yep! Im super happy ally folks are getting the true steamOS experience! I love my deck and had I known ally would end up getting that functionality I would have just gotten one when X came out
Happy to report that sleep works okay most of the time on my Ally. I say most of the time because I think it didn't work with Mafia: Remastered Edition, but everything else works including RDR2 and Hogwarts Legacy, which I'm playing now.
@@HominisLupissorry for late reply, but you never mentioned if this was on windows or Linux, do you remember?
I really like your videos, I kinda cannot think of any improvements you could make because I already really enjoy your content
My only concern is that further down the line he will have a ton of subscribers and will then start acting like all of the other youtubers with their over exaggerated personalities and this over the top hyped up content. Cyber is at the moment thorough but to the point, which is what I like the most, hopefully that doesn't change.
I love the facts that your videos are outside, very relaxing and not much going no crazy cuts. keep it up
The suspend feature is probably the most important feature, TBH. Especially for 90m+ playtime
I used it all the time when I closed my 2DSXL and on my NS. Pretty much constantly
Especially in my games that last me 6h-10h on average, having that suspend feature on my Steam Deck OLED has been the most prominent and crucial part of my experience. I'm not playing on my Deck for like 8h straight. I'm always turning it off when I take a shit or need to eat. And just turning the system off mid game and putting it on the charger is so nice
Suspend feature should honestly be tippy top priority for handheld experience, 2nd only to Power Efficiency and Battery. If a handheld can't do this, there's honestly no value in it as a portable/convenient gaming device
Installing Bazzite was well worth the time it took. The sleep/wake function alone is worth the install. I shut down my Ally X last night at 1030pm and just picked up at 7am. The battery only drained 1%, and the game was exactly where I left it. On windows would’ve had to reboot the entire OS, open up Steam, wait for the game to load up again. Also an older video of you installing Bazzite on the legion go and OH Ally helped me reflash Bazzite back to Ally X. I did something to screw up my install and could renal Bazzite because it would fail due to having a Bazzite EFI already.
CD, ur vids are awesome, chill, and relaxing to watch I can’t think of any improvements u can make ur vibe is just awesome especially with the way you take ur time to speak and express your thoughts. Many content creators have scripts and all and regardless if you’ve got notes to read off of or not you make it sound real, other creators kinda lack the human aspect because of purely reading off a script with a different tone of voice. Keep at it man much love brother 🫡
So what you're saying is that I need to install Bazzite on my Ally X?
Yes do it immediately. I installed a 4TB SSD in mines and dedicated 2.5 tb to Bazzite and the other 1tb to windows. Mainly for games that either don’t run on Linux or are too much trouble to get to work.
Or wait for steamOs
@@Will_Bx_NYC_718I installed my 4gb ssd on my grenades.
@@Will_Bx_NYC_718what 4 tb ssd did you use for ally x
@@Hybrid225that’s what I want to do I hope we’ll get an update on it soon. had my steam deck lcd since it
Launched and I’ve absolutely loved it expanded my gaming had so much fun emulation and expanded my 64gb to a tb ssd. Now I finally want to update to something stronger and longer batter life and I’ve being waiting and going back and forth on whether to just upgrade to and oled or an ally x til the update for steam os coming to other pc handhelds on its own
If anybody wants to stick to windows (for things like gamepass), you can use a launcher like Playnite to give you the console experience. You can also use something like Handheld Hardware Tools which gives you a bunch of gamepad shortcuts, like opening Steam Big Picture mode, opening a menu to control TDP, etc. The only downside still would be Windows hibernate being bad for games.
I love the videos man you go so in depth with your installation video I just did it tonight. Keep up the great videos bro.
This vid inspired me to buy a 4TB SSD to try out Bazzite on my Ally X, thanks Dope! 🙌🤩
Seen a few videos about transferring to Bazzite but it took YOURS for me to finally consider it
this why i love your content brother you talk about the realest points in your videos please keep up the good work 👍
I like your videos bro. So chill and informative.
I see you took my advice on when to ask for advice and telling people to subscribe! Your flow was already better this video despite the lack of segments, and the clip at the end adds familiarity. You're getting it boss, keep it up!
Never heard of Bazzite.. until now.. Thanks Pal!
If you have an Ally X, or other windows handle held install Bazzite. It’s worth the time and hassle it takes to install. Over all time from downloading the image, flashing a usb drive, and installing on your device takes about 1 and a half hours.
Awesome video mate, good work dude
I like the idea of bazzite , also like the Ui from steam much simpler. Liked enough to install bazzite on my ally x I was let down once it came to it not as snappy. Games wouldn’t work out of the box. Yes windows isn’t the greatest but I don’t have to tinker with protons and experiment with all that just to play a game, with windows I just launch game and it works. And now after reinstalling windows my ally is a bit buggy so idk. I keep seeing all these videos of how great bazzite is unfortunately that wasn’t my experience
Yep, I think most people gloss over this when comparing SteamOS with Windows. They compare SteamOS at its best with Windows at its worst. For me, I have a Steam Deck OLED, and if I need to play a game that’s not verified, it tends to be more work on average to get it working.
Love ur work.
Very in details in minimal way
I'm watching your video on a rig ally x....this feels so weird lmao. Also great videos I love my new rig ally x!
You think I should install BazziteOS now on the Ally X or just wait for the official SteamOS by Valve? 🤔
You make great videos. I also really enjoy playing on the Steam Deck. More often than on the PC. Greetings from Germany.
Just a second.
Why wouldn’t you have the game running and put Legion Go to hibernation?
I have been using for 6 months, I use hibernation all the time, absolutely 0 problem.
The only downside is those 13 seconds it takes to turn on.
No battery draw, no bugs, works really well.
Great video. My Legion Go is in for repairs at the moment, but when I get it back I will try CachyOS handheld. Looks like a nice Bazzite alternative as well.
Love your videos dovahkiin
Keep it up 👌
I’ve been waiting on this one :)
I'm gonna get the Zotac Zone. The battery life may not be as good as the Ally X's or the Deck OLED's, but I'm looking for pre-installed Hall Effect joysticks and triggers.
THIS is why I have consoles at home. If I truly wanted to game away from the house something I would want a little system like we had in the olden days before electricity…something like the PSP/Vita or DS/DSi/3DS/ Gameboy
1:03 I mentioned this on my Ayaneo Kun Review. I'm super glad I'm not alone in this.
If you connect your Lego make sure to put fan speed on full blast because it will overheat, once you disconnect it and it charges you can go back to normal fan speed, that usually solves my overheating issue.
CachyOS Handheld is what I use on my Steam Deck and I got around 20% boost just from swapping the system that looks and works exactly the same as SteamOS
That's crazy
great video. i have deck but i wanted to go with ally. except windows. that was a big red flag.
also my PC also runs linux. soo no loss for me.
I installed Bazzite onto my ALLY X, everything is working great except the HHD plugin to change TDP isn’t showing in the deckyloader in quick settings. It is only able to be used with the back buttons to enable, was wondering if that’s how it is supposed to be or I can get it into quick settings, great job on these videos absolutely love your content keep it up!!
Would love to see how you demonstrate the ally x full potential , e.g monitor / portable projector. On the go 2player experience , multitasking a game and watching sport in a seperate browser. Most importantly how a heavy keyboard controlled game like squad is possible on a handheld.
Keep doing what you're doing! Finally I've found a (tech) channel with humanity instead of these cold, over-produced and scripted guys talking without any kind of real emotions. Sure, I like facts and well-crafted sentences as much as the next guy, but you have a way of communicating that really stands out and is fully authentic - something that many other channels lack, unfortunately. You've got Real Personality, is what I'm trying to say, and that makes your videos a delight to watch! It reminds me of the early days of UA-cam, when people just uploaded videos made with heart instead of them all conforming to whatever is trendy. The era where UA-camrs like Chris Stuckmann or MKBHD just put the camera on and Made something, without all these flashy edits or perfectly scripted things to say. When they still were raw and real.
(Not to badmouth other creators with millions of subscribers, they probably work very hard to make their videos - it's just that bigger channels often feel very soulless nowadays!)
Keep doing you, it's really a breath of fresh air watching and hearing you talk about (tech) stuff in this passionate way of yours. Truly no other does it like you!
Subscribed 🍻
Kind regards,
Jerry
Gosh Jerry. That means a lot dude thank you
ok so which pc handheld. do you recommend to get ? for all to play bop6. or warzone. its more comfort. thinking of selling my 3080 pc ..
Ally X then dude
I think windows is perfectly fine and preferable for people who want to easily mod their games. It's also possible to set steam to automatically boot into big picture mode when it starts up. To each their own tho
Yeah its great on legion, very easy to use if you use it like a tablet with your fingers, boots into windows in 20 seconds and with lossless scaling can play every game at 144fps (this especially made bazzite pointless for me as i dont think you can use it)
Great video man! I'm definitely interested in trying out Bazzite. Just curious if I'm dual booting do I still have access to all the game in the storage or do I have to install them twice if I want to play the same game in Bazzite and Windows?
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Windows allows you to use Lossless Scaling for frame generation which I use all the time on my Rog Ally Extreme. I love Steam OS it is just frame generation makes so much difference on a handheld….
well I'll be damned. you did it. you bastard. you really did it
Sir Lancaster I have
Would have been better to go through BazziteOS platform and some comparaison from SD vs BazziteOS ROG in FPS.
Honestly, I feel so cheated because ROG ALLY + BazziteOS is the ultimate combo rn and my oled feels a bit...lackluster without that exclusivity. I should have known :(
Don’t feel that way. Look at my last steam deck video. I still choose to play steam deck oled whenever I can and am not reviewing a product
Is Rog Ally X or Steam Deck Better? Since I have a Gaming PC
Dude you must have a badass mic. I cant hear any wind at all
Loveee your content man 🫶 I think I agree with all the other comments, you make it feel very natural and welcoming to watch. Not that I don’t enjoy benchmarks and graphs lol, but the way you do it just feels very authentic. We can tell you put a TON of effort in your videos, you embrace the process of making them, and then you gladly walk us through it. You should be proud of your work 🫡🫡🫡
Hey thank you so much!
Hi. I have been watching your videos lately.. 800 is just way too expensive for me at this time for the Ally X (more like 900 to 1000 actually in my country). Will Steam Deck OLED suffice? I'm very concerned wirh the pixel density of the SD OLED though. It's much lower then even a Switch OLED.
I’m not sure about bazzite, but RDR2 mods run great on steam deck oled with a little tweaking. Rampage and lml work with a little tweaking and slightly different than windows.
Windows isnt hard to work with. What are you guys struggling with? And you can set steam to automatically open at startup and in big picture mode.. and this has been the case for at least a decade. The rest of your points are fair though
Ally guys have been gaslighting me into thinking Windows suspend/resume works just as well as on Steam OS. You confirming that no, it doesn't by a long shot, is very reassuring. I wish every handheld review didn't just completely ignore syspend/resume experience when reviewing Windows handhelds.
He gaslight you on that? The sleep/wake function on the Ally running windows abysmal once you press the power button it’s takes up to 39 seconds to get back into windows, and the game may or may not suspend correctly. But you just never know. Since windows isn’t design to be a console that was never a feature considered. Bottom line like he said Microsoft needs to step their game up. Or this will be yet another market they lose horribly in because they refuse to get with the times. With majority of handhelds running their OS, they need to create a light weight OS focused on gaming first.
Hello Cyber Dopamine about being able to run Wemod on Bazzite, it is possible through PortProton, running in Donet mode, thanks for your tutorials
Are you gonna cover the Zotac Zone too ? I was gonna buy a rog ally x when it goes on sale in 6 months but I just learned about the Zone and it sounds like a rog ally killer with these better ergonomics, adjustable triggers and the OLED screen
It be interesting to hear your honest opinions when it drops , you are one of the very few handheld youtubers who is honest and not paid by other companies to say good things and no bad things
Hey bro!
I really need an advice from you, what should I get, Steam deck or Rog Ally x ? I have a large library on Epic games and afraid i won't able to play them on a steam deck , but at the same time i am adraid of windows 11. Will windows glitch olin a year on Rog ally ? Do i have i to reinstall windows 11 ally 2 times in a year ?
Is the ally X worth the upgrade from the ally ? I've got the original ally and I'm gonna put bazzite on it but just wonder if I should wait for the ally 2 instead which will eventually come
I didn't own any handheld, but done some research because I want to buy SD OLED or ROG Ally X.
From what I read and watch most people said that if you have Ally no need to spend another $$$ for the X, you better buy good brand powerbank with that money and get roughly the same batteries with less money, you also can upgrade the storage and still get some $ left.
Unless you're the one who want to have and use the newest one, I think it's better to wait for the Ally 2. And I think ASUS seems to release a new handheld like very fast, like almost yearly.
Sorry for my bad English, hope you can understand what I'm saying.
As an owner of the original Ally I can say the Ally X is a noteworthy upgrade. But it comes down to what important to you. For me battery life, storage, ergonomics were most important. The Ally X has a battery that last 1.5x longer the OG Ally, easier and more storage options. You can install a 2280 SSD up 8tb, the OG Ally can only install 2230 SSD, which max out at 2TB and are very expensive. I mean you can do some jackets to fit normal sized SSDs in the Ally if want to, but I’m not comfortable doing that. And it come with two usb C ports. Also has faster ram, and more ram which is paramount for handheld systems since they share ram for the cpu and gpu. Overall I’m happy with it, but it comes down to your budget.
No get the legion go, much much better screen, detachable controllers (i use all the time), stand to stand it up, these are all things you won't live without once you have tried it. Lossless scaling made the better battery on the x pretty much obsolete as you can play in battery saving mode and still get great fps (on plane i played for 3 hours on the go and it used 30% battery). Only tangible advantage on the x is the ram but again doesn't matter now with lossless and on paper i can't see it making much of a difference anyway
There is a decky plugin that makes it easy to run cheat trainers. And modding... well I never had a problem modding baldurs gate 3, minecraft, rimworld, factorio, isaac, risk of rain 2, stardew, etc... so I don't really know where the problem lies in comparison with windows
did they add amd fluid motions on bazziteOS yet? that's really want is holding me back
Bazzite is cool, but it's underbaked. As convenient as it can be. I still feel like we're better off with Windows for now. That should change once steam OS comes
Explain how it’s underbaked? Everything I can do on both my steam deck, and I can do on Bazzite.
Haven't had any issues on my end besides the slightly slow opening of the overlay menus. Good enough till the official SteamOS comes out for the Ally.
launch in big picture mode?
Correction: you CAN install mods when using a linux-based system. You just have to do it manually through desktop mode. :)
More of a playnite user but damn that thumbnail looks so sick 😢
You can do that with Steam Big Picture Mode + CSSLoader in windows
For the best experience without installing bazzite, I just enable steam startup in big picture mode.
On my OG Ally I even disabled the log in. Straight into it. No fingerprint. But I also use my Ally X as a laptop sometimes. So I'm leaving windows for now lol.
I have a 2020 Razer Blade laptop and that thing is frustrating. Every time I turn it on there are a ton of updates that make it run like a slideshow. I should never have updated it to Windows 11 since it got even worse after that. It also cooks, sounds like a jet engine, and needs a big honkin power brick. Can something like this run on and be easily installed on a windows laptop? I know it's basically Linux, but I've never tried it to see if it's a better experience than the hunk of poo I'm dealing with now or if it's worth it. Then there's all the bloaty garbage Razor needs to optimize itself, set fan speeds, lighting, etc.
One more question sir. When you dock the rog ally and play it with external monitor with 144hz,,, will it run in 120hz? And what thing i need to buy?
Why does BazziteOS not support mods? I don't know about GTA but at least on the steamdeck i can mod games without problem and also use steam workshop.
But again, I don't know how modding gta V works.
Bazzite might have been worth it before lossless scaling got as good as it is, but I'm playing everything at 144fps now on legion go.
Also it does not take 5 minutes lol Legion is in windows within 20 seconds, and i had dark souls 3 loaded and lossless scaled by 1 minute 20 mark. Also let's not forget legion is basically a tablet as well, i use it for checking things quick on the web, UA-cam etc using 3 finger gestures and so on its very easy to use when you start using it like that, and of course can play any game which Bazzite or sd can't do
Last time I tried to play my Ally on a plane I couldn’t play anything because they all needed an internet connection to start. 😢 Otherwise, I love it!
you have to boot the game online first before you go offline on steam. and for xbox there is a setting
@@CyberDopamine Had no idea. I’ll check it out. Thanks!
Hello, can you try to lower the audio AI enhancer impact? it makes your sound so robotic!
Yeah that’s super valid you’re right
I always gound Bazzite to give about 3 frame drop compared to Windows but the frame pacing is much more even.
There are a lot of choices I use cachyos handheld and the performance is awesome on my x
No mods though? I gotta admit the thought of Bazzite and its features made me overlook that. Gotta have the GTA 5 mods on deck...no pun intended.
just mod like on windows? I think KDE is pretty user friendly it feels like windows... I dont know about mod managers tho
Hey so, Cyber, I got an important update for you. The newest Windows update bricks Dual Boot. Secure boot fucks it up. So you wanna avoid updating any Windows Handheld with Bazite until that's fixed. Microsoft does have instructions on how to fix it, and I assume you already know but just in case you don't, now you do.
Awesome videos
Yo, loved your tutorial. Even saw it on the Official Bazzite website. So sick.
What should i do if the built in BazziteOS update tool fails? Is there a manual way to grab the current build and apply it as an update?
Yes it’s your easy
It’s like ostree~ update or something like that
@@CyberDopamine is that a terminal command?
I've tried it it was amazing the first time had to remove it because the suspend wake function and Wi-Fi disconnection on suspension wasn't working properly is it working properly for you?
I’m not sure when you installed Bazzite previously, but with the current version, everything is working 100%.
Can't wait for steamdeck 2. Not interested in other hardware handhelds
There's just no way windows would change nothing for handhelds because of Linux's increase In popularity. They don't give two shits about valve and the handheld market, I'd go as far as to say that they don't care about Xbox as a whole to this point
So, when Microsoft and Valve go to war over the handheld market, the consumer wins?
Exactly
On legion go running bazzite running games of the sd card runs great with 0 stutters/freezes.
Please try out CachyOS handheld version please
I use bazzite on my ally x i couldn't stand windows yes theres some games i probably can not play but im yet to find one in my library
But with dual bot (bazzite x windows) you can choose to play other games in windows when you want, right? (Asking bc I’m considering do this when I get my Ally x)
@TheKlaussoares yes you can switch between windows and bazzite just by resetting
can you make a day in a life kind video with one of these handhelds please brev.
I’m really tired of people calling Bazzite SteamOS. I know that the algorithm needs the clickbait but seriously, Bzzite is NOT SteamOS.
No I talk about steam is coming to the rig ally
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I dont know what I did wrong when I set up my dual boot on the ally x but for some reason my wifi card just refused to work with bazzite. It worked when I first booted it but after that I couldnt connect to wifi at all when on bazzite.
If only games like the new call of duty games worked on Linux. Want to buy my girlfriend a legion go but I think windows gaming might be overwhelming for her. Bazzite would be amazing for her but yeah we wanna play call of duty.
Get the legion dude its awesome, the software is much better now than it used to be, one click of a button and it boots into the legion software where you just select your game and your off, you won't regret it
Can u make a video how to boot fast in bazzite os. My ally takes 62 second to boot
if there was lossless scaling and afmf2 i would switch but till then nah.I use both my handheld as my main pc with onexgpu on1440p monitor or in the bed
This is true, i feel so many people still don't know about lossless so they are doing all this work to get a few extra frames while we are sitting here on windows playing at 120fps+ on every game lol
This is the first review I've seen that mentions you're unable to mod games with Bazzite. Why is that and is there no way to get around it on Bazzite?
It has to do with Linux bro. Mods are built on windows and can’t convert with proton like games can
@@CyberDopamine Got it that sucks. Appreciate the quick response tho
I think I will reinstall Bazzite but not dual boot this time. I want nothing to do with Windows.
Vrr on Bazzite working probably now?
Wbu windows 11 in the steam deck oled??😂😅😅
Yeah! I will make a video on this t
When steam realeases oficial steam OS support im ditching windows, windows aint that bad but I can use my laptop if I really need windows for some reason, a handheld experience is much better with steamOS
I still think the Odin 2 is great as well
I have a rog ally x and it took 53 seconds from booting up to playing a game. Lol.
Nothing perfect, actually I found if setup the windows properly, everything is easier than using bazzit
I don’t take my handhelds to work 🤣
Hi mate whats your main phone android or ios
Dude iPhone but I want the pixel so bad. I don’t know if I should switch
brave of you to assume we have girlfriends 😅
Ok I gota ask, why do u look like barnie before he was cool😅
0:28 That's why mobile games are popular in asia, but PC gamers elitists don't think mobile gamers are real gamers. I used to play on PC, but i barely had enough will to sit again in front of my PC to play game after a long day in the office. That's why i really love to play game on my iPad mini. And with handheld gaming umpc more and more powerful, it's only matter of time before i finally ditched my iPad mini for gaming.
I'm glad finally more people understand why handheld is great.
good content but your hair is bugging me please pony it. 😂
This sounds like your creating a problem that don’t exist.
I don’t have any of them problems.
I showed on the video fast motion