I’ve never had a Rog Ally, but couldn’t you wipe the whole thing on day 1, and install bazzite?
You can very easily downgrade to Win10 and there’s a sizable community on r/LinuxOnAlly but it’s also Microsoft/XBox so what else do you expect? Still beats giving Valve 45% more money so GabeN can buy another yacht company and sell kids gamble boxes.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sounds neat; I just wish they made an SKU where you didn’t have to pay for Windows (before removing it)
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Set your expectations accordingly. ROG Ally is only cheaper until they have to build more with today’s component prices (if they choose to). And it’s not like Microsoft executives don’t have yachts or sell kids gambling boxes.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s all fair but it just seems weird to me to say “company X jacked their prices up $300 and company Y might, therefore they’re both the same.” Wait until the Ally gets a price bump and see where the value is. As it stands today, the Deck is now a substantially worse value
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They will jack up their prices if they sell through their stock and decide that that demand will stick around long enough to justify another batch of them at higher prices. As it stands today, it is doing your fellow Lemming a solid to point out the current price discrepancy in favor of the Ally. When both of those devices are priced for stable market conditions, my recommendation leans heavily toward Steam Deck, but we are not currently in stable market conditions.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tbh I can’t be bothered to confirm who exactly is managing the Ally but XBox’s new CEO is on a goodwill-gathering streak right now. Brought down the price of game pass and seems to want to bring people back to the brand proper. MS certainly has the capital to subsidize console costs to gain market.
Again, all this is conjecture and came from me saying that right now, because Valve raised the price of the Steam Deck and MS hasn’t done so for the Ally, the Ally is a better value. Today.