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The Linux coders turning the ROG Ally and other handhelds into Steam Deck clones (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/the-linux-coders-turning-the-rog-ally-and-other-handhelds-into-steam-deck-clones/

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Coders? Isn't all that it takes is to load holoiso into a flash drive and install it on the ally?

[–] Batbro 4 points 1 year ago

hackerman

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There are firmware fixes and such that need to be implemented, so yes, coders.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I bet some of the things in the Ally need new drivers that aren't in the Kernel yet.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Yup, as a software dev myself, I doubt anyone is really putting any development effort into it. Maybe a little config to map the controller properly or something, but it's close enough hardware-wise that there really shouldn't be much work involved.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

TLDR;

Handheld PC is a PC so you can install Linux aka HoloOS and it works as we'd expect.