I just bought the ROG Ally (RC71L) Z1E because it was massively discounted here (like half the price of Ally X). I’ll stick with Windows 11 until the free 3 months Game Pass is up, but it’s only been a week and Windows is really annoying me. Before I jump to Bazzite, is there any gotchas and genera…

One thing that hit me was that I didn’t have sound in speakers in Bazzite (I had sound if I plugged in headphones). I updated the BIOS on the ROG Ally, and that fixed the problem.

I am already making sure BIOS, firmware and such are updated on the default Windows install first, yes. Does dual boot work btw?

Yes, but follow our guide for dual-booting. I have an Ally X and there really isn’t that many gotchas today, but here’s the wiki page that I probably should update since it seems most of these issues are now squashed. I could confidently say that the Ally and Legion Go are probably our most suppor…

Nice - do update me when that’s updated so I can make a more informed decision. I think I’ll go with the Windows-to-Go route. I’ll just grab an SSD enclosure and connect it via USB-C while I’m at home. Thanks for the info!

here’s an update: most things work. check out digital foundry’s youtube video on bazzite running on the ally . the VRR issues that they critique here are also improved as best as it can be with valve’s implementation of VRR in gamescope.

Bought Ally X and it arrived this morning, after a few small kinks 1) small error in the installer that can be solved by a quick googling /troubleshooting 2) Decky plugins didn’t work initially but SimpleTDP finally worked. Now, I got 850gb of games almost downloaded on it. I flashed the latest bio…

I’m getting an Ally Z1E delivered on Friday. (!!) I’m planning on immediately installing Bazzite without a separate Windows boot partition. I saw that fwupd recently started supporting the ROG Ally , which (in theory) means that we can update the MCU without needing to go through windows. Does this c…

When you write “update MCU” are you talking about BIOS update? When I tried that, fwupd didn’t have any BIOS updates (this was for the ROG Ally), so I had to use a USB stick instead.

I also joined the Ally club a few days ago! I was already running bluefin on my framework 13 so it was clear before I got the device that bazzite will be my os of choice. So far I very much like the experience! Especially the good standby implementation! Just continue where I have left. I would …

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fenglengshun January 9, 2025, 1:42am 7

Thank you - it is reassuring to see most of it is gone. What about the Extreme Standby Mode issue in this report: Rog ally becomes stuck after waking up

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