![]() ![]() I did not get that far during a period of more than a month where I had a review unit and nobody who actually understands hardware drivers had an Ally. And it's impressive enough, given you can hold it in your hands. Is that so bad? I wanted the big game squares, and you click the square with your game, the game plays, and Steam does a bunch of stuff in the background to make it work. But, like the many Linux developers who see the Ally as the Steam Deck's potentially beefier cousin, I wanted to leave the comforts of the Start menu for wilder lands. It's a weird feeling, ignoring almost everything Asus has done to set up this device with gaming and power management software and starting over at the storage level. With effort, you can get into the BIOS, disable Secure Boot, plug in a USB stick, and boot a USB stick with a live Linux distribution on it. ![]() The ROG Ally ships with Windows (Home) installed and a bunch of Asus software, but it is still, at heart, a PC. Windows is, of course, the main highway to most PC gaming, but it's also (as detailed in the review) not yet built to work well on a 7-inch gaming handheld. As soon as I was done with my review of the Asus ROG Ally, I grabbed my best USB stick and started looking for ISOs to download. ![]()
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