I turned the Asus ROG Ally X into a Steam Deck — it proves Windows 11 kills power and battery life

[admin]

SteamOS is officially coming to the Asus ROG Ally X, but I got impatient and installed it early. Here are the results, and why it proves Windows 11 should not be used on any gaming handheld.

I turned the Asus ROG Ally X into a Steam Deck — it proves Windows 11 kills power and battery life : Read more

 

[mistawankas]

lol. Anyone with both a Steam Deck and Rog ally knows this article is nonsense to get clicks. If somehow you are breaking the laws of physics and watts are magically higher on windows, you would win prizes. Linux isn't there yet. Not even close. It might be in another decade but not yet. Windows 11 is leaps ahead and only those tech illiterates could make it not the best option for handhelds.

 

[Siruker]

lol. Anyone with both a Steam Deck and Rog ally knows this article is nonsense to get clicks. If somehow you are breaking the laws of physics and watts are magically higher on windows, you would win prizes. Linux isn't there yet. Not even close. It might be in another decade but not yet. Windows 11 is leaps ahead and only those tech illiterates could make it not the best option for handhelds.

While gaming on linux has its issues it has come long way on steam deck and if you are any bit more technical minded you can get gog and even epic games working on linux without major issues or hurdles. No linux does not increase wattage but because it doesn't have as much background stuff going on it can dedicate more power and system resources to the game thus improving both performance and battery power. Personally havent run into anything that cant run on linux. But I wouldnt play competitive shooters on steamdeck anyway.

 

[colossusrageblack]

lol. Anyone with both a Steam Deck and Rog ally knows this article is nonsense to get clicks. If somehow you are breaking the laws of physics and watts are magically higher on windows, you would win prizes. Linux isn't there yet. Not even close. It might be in another decade but not yet. Windows 11 is leaps ahead and only those tech illiterates could make it not the best option for handhelds.

I agree that Linux isn't there yet. However, it's very plausible that Windows uses more power considering it's running the CPU and utilizing more memory for background tasks. Windows 11 is not leaps and bounds ahead either. It's maybe two or three steps.

 

[Nikfra]

lol. Anyone with both a Steam Deck and Rog ally knows this article is nonsense to get clicks. If somehow you are breaking the laws of physics and watts are magically higher on windows, you would win prizes. Linux isn't there yet. Not even close. It might be in another decade but not yet. Windows 11 is leaps ahead and only those tech illiterates could make it not the best option for handhelds.

What laws of physics and what magic? Anything but a higher wattage on windows would be a miracle, everyone knows that the overhead on windows is massive compared to pretty much any Linux distro and it has been for years if not decades.

 

[jams3223]

Bazzite is on the latest bleeding edge Kernel and Graphics driver and the Steam Deck is still on a old one, the performance difference won't be this big in real life if both devices are running the same OS, if both devices are running windows it's only a 1.3x performance improvement on the ROG Ally X.

 

[Bruh8]

What laws of physics and what magic? Anything but a higher wattage on windows would be a miracle, everyone knows that the overhead on windows is massive compared to pretty much any Linux distro and it has been for years if not decades.

We already have stats on it. Steam os provides no performance or battery life uplift with these handhelds, sometimes it is less due to no driver support.

View: https/youtu.be/xzQjaTScWsM?si=1P8dI43Q0fHbZF8e

 

[Bruh8]

I agree that Linux isn't there yet. However, it's very plausible that Windows uses more power considering it's running the CPU and utilizing more memory for background tasks. Windows 11 is not leaps and bounds ahead either. It's maybe two or three steps.

The battery life is negligible on both, the limiting factor is the chipsets themselves, not “windows”. The biggest issue is the z1 extreme is designed to go from 15-28 watts whilst the steam deck is designed for 3-15.