But if you wanted to justify wiping your $700 gaming handheld because you’d rather never see a Microsoft Teams notification again
That’s reason enough. I won’t even try to list the other reasons why windows should be listed as malware, because they’re too many at this point, so wiping any device that comes with it and installing something sane is, IMHO, a civic duty.
Yah, I know, I’m preaching to the choir…
If I were to get the RoG Ally, it would have to work with either ChimeraOS or SteamOS 3 out of the box. I’m probably not going to get one since I have a SteamDeck that already fills the need of handheld gaming.
There are good things to be said about the Ally, but I find the soon-to-be-released GPD handhelds more interesting. Both are officially stated to support SteamOS (which means plain Arch and possibly other distros should also work great) and offer something different from the Deck and Ally in that the GPD Win4 is much more compact, and the GPD Max 2 has a much larger display.
I’ve got both the Max 2 and Win 4 in the 6800U versions and I use the Steam deck substantially more than either of them simply because I actually cannot stand Windows
Why not install SteamOS or plain Arch Linux on the GPD devices then?
