About four months ago, I ditched my Steam Deck for Asus’ ROG Ally. But with some distance, I’m going back to Valve’s handheld. Here’s why.

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    1 year ago

    @AnonymousLlama
    The Steam Deck and other handheld PCs also rocks for emulation, not only for light indie games.

    Here is a part of the article which bugs me a byte:

    By nearly all objective measures, the ROG Ally is better than the Steam Deck. It has solid battery life, a nicer screen, more power, and Windows 11

    Having Windows 11 on the device is not an objective measure to be better. If anything, this is a subjective matter. In my opinion Windows is far worse as an operating system for a handheld PC (or any PC at all). Sure you have more games to play with, but the usability and customization sucks, plus Microsoft is spying on you.

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      1 year ago

      The dumbest thing about that statement is that nothing stops them from installing Windows on the Deck. I would never want to, but if someone felt that Windows was truly better for the device they certainly have the option of using it.