What if a handheld gaming device could deliver a seamless experience with a demanding title like Doom: The Dark Ages? The ROG Ally X, paired with SteamOS 3.8, comes tantalizingly close to achieving ...

What if the future of handheld gaming didn’t revolve around Windows? Imagine a sleek, high-performance device that ditches the familiar Microsoft ecosystem for a bold, Linux-based alternative, one ...

Here at Ars, we have been writing about rumors of a portable Xbox for literal decades now. With the ROG Xbox Ally, Microsoft has finally made those rumors a reality in the weirdest, most Microsoft way ...

The more expensive version of the Asus handheld now has access to Auto SR, an upscaling system reliant upon an NPU.

Bazzite, a Steam-like Linux-based operating system, was installed on a ROG Xbox Ally X. It appears the OS may offer better gaming performance than Windows. Bazzite also wakes faster, offers more ...

A new contender has entered the increasingly crowded field of handheld gaming PCs, and by virtue of its name alone, it's sure to make waves this fall. The ROG Xbox Ally X is the high-end variant of ...

SteamOS is a Linux-based operating system designed for handheld gaming PCs. Up until now that’s largely meant that it’s the operating system that powers Valve’s Steam Deck handhelds. While folks have ...

I've long suspected that SteamOS is more efficient than Windows, and I'm far from the only one. The moment the original ROG Ally launched, comparisons between SteamOS and Windows started cropping up.

Question - is there a reason why everyone says "go with Bazzite" instead of CachyOS? To my limited knowledge, both are gaming oriented distros, the former being Fedora-based, the latter being ...