I Turned My ROG Ally X Into the Steam Deck 2, Here's How

[@baldlyrudy]

!!!!Update Below!!!! Sponsor: 🌏 Get NordVPN 2Y plan + 4 months extra ➼ nordvpn.com/baldlyrudy It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌ -------------------------------------- !!!!Update!!!! Hey all! I spoke with the developers of Bazzite about an error that users were getting, and this is what they said about the error: "btw that chmod should be `chmod +x` to add the executable bit to the script. i guess steam launches it through bash anyway without the executable bit since `+0` i dont think does anything, at least it didnt remove permissions 🙂" I hope that helps!!! ------------------- The ASUS ROG Ally with Steam OS (or Bazzite OS) is the best of both worlds. You don't have to worry about whether or not you lose any of the perks of Windows, because you can create a partition on the SSD and have both Bazzite OS and Windows ready to use. Hi friends! If you're interested in purchasing anything that I mentioned in the video then here are some affiliate links: 🔥ASUS ROG Ally X: howl.link/kz1tegfbg48jo 🔥ASUS ROG Ally (Old Model): howl.link/jizal5p51k98t 🔥ASUS ROG Ally (Old Model) (Amazon): amzn.to/48NY6c4 🔥Lenovo Legion Go: howl.link/kz1tegfbg48jo 3rd Party Docks: 🔥JSAUX Docking Station: amzn.to/3EyFAIJ 🔥JSAUX Omnicase 2: amzn.to/3JksBMW 🔥iVoler Docking Station: amzn.to/3khmRKN SSD: 🔥SABRENT Rocket 2230 NVMe 4.0 1TB: amzn.to/3JnQQtH 🔥Samsung - 990 PRO 4TB: howl.me/cmyJy2SS9S5 microSD Cards: 🔥Samsung 512 GB A2: amzn.to/3KFXXPs 🔥SanDisk 1TB A2: amzn.to/3lXjx7Y Handheld Wireless Keyboards: 🔥Rii K06 Mini Bluetooth Keyboard: amzn.to/468HKuH 🔥Gimibox Mini Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard: amzn.to/46p0JRZ 🔥Rii X8 Portable 2.4GHz Wireless Keyboard: amzn.to/3PgQ5GJ 65W Power Banks: 🔥Baseus Power Bank 20000mAh: amzn.to/3CBfByL 🔥UGREEN Power Bank 25000mAh: amzn.to/3qQyMSG 🔥Anker Portable Charger 24,000mAh: amzn.to/3Pmej2m USB Dongle: 🔥UGREEN Revodok USB-C: amzn.to/3BefYST 🔥UGREEN Revodok Pro: amzn.to/4f29O6e Tools: 🔥iFixIt Essentials Kit: amzn.to/3OCYyT6 🔥iFixIt Pro Kit: amzn.to/3ZknZ0p If you use these links to purchase anything, I may get a commission from the sale. It helps support the channel at no extra cost to you, so thank you! Source Links: Bazzite OS: bazzite.gg/ Installation Guide Setup: docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/index.html Documentation: docs.bazzite.gg/ Script to Launch Windows on Bazzite: overkill.wtf/digest-67/ Balena Etcher: etcher.balena.io/ ProtonDB: www.protondb.com/ DiskGenius: www.diskgenius.com/

[@kxss9889]

i have been waiting for a video like this before pulling the trigger on an allyx

[@baldlyrudy]

This all works so well. It takes a little bit of time to do, but it's so worth it.

[@kxss9889]

@@baldlyrudy honestly thank you, not really a discord or reddit guy so this is a big help

[@baldlyrudy]

@kxss9889 that's awesome! I'm glad I could help.

[@ujingan9697]

Hi ! A very good day to you and just to ask the Rog Ally X have the steam store ? Why do I still need to install the Bazzite Os ???? Hope to hear from you soon , because your explaination is so complicated ???

[@EntirelyTom1]

After having the original Ally running on Windows for most of its life until I switched to Bazzite towards the end, as soon as I got my Ally X I booted into Windows once just do to a bios update, then I wiped it and installed Bazzite. For me it makes the user experience infinitely better to the point where if Bazzite wasn't an option, I wouldn't have gotten an Ally X. There are no games that only work on Windows that I have any desire to play so this is perfect for me. The best thing about Bazzite is the sleep function though, which just doesn't work nearly as well on Windows.

[@chrizjenj3910]

Coming from playstation console my whole life I think its time to make the jump into the PC world. Great video. Ally X looks the best imo.

[@nelsonngu]

yeah, got ROG X with Bazzite OS installed. No regrets at all. I needed window and do not want to build a desktop PC but still be able to travel around with it. Besides, I have Quest 3. So linking that with my ROG X too. it's a win win situation for me. I no longer need to sit in front of my desk all day not getting out of my house. I can travel to other country and also travel to nearby cafe.

[@EspionageTV]

I studied for about three months to decide whether I wanted to steam deck or an ROG and a couple weeks ago I decided on the ROG basically because of the games that I play like Black ops six destiny, etc. I got the ROGZ one downloaded black ops six in modern warfare three which took some stress trying to figure out how to work the ROG but once I did and after two days of downloading, I played my first match. It ran great. Still prefer my PS five but my RG is awesome. Second choice.

[@AetherMomon]

Valve also seem to be planning to add official support for the ROG Ally with Steam OS in the future, which is very nice! Though the ROG Ally does seem to be a bit expensive and the extra performance seems to come at a cost in terms of battery life. Steam Deck has a better balance of performance, value, & battery life imo. If you want to be able to play your games at the highest frame rate, highest resolution, & highest refresh rate tho honestly I think you should just get a gaming laptop! Especially when the ROG Ally is like $7-800 usd.

[@Bonkerz743]

@AetherMomon I will buy a handheld even if it's 1.5k, the reason being i get time rarely, and thus, I would want my device next to me whenever I wish to play, especially on the go. I'll pay more price if it gives better performance, something close to a laptop.

[@hidden_name7469]

@@AetherMomon the rog ally x has better battery life than the steam deck however

[@astrovewlix]

Hey Rudy... If you use Drive Genius and follow all the default prompts and settings, it formats the other partition as NTFS, which Bazzite refuses to both write over and delete. You need to make sure the partition is "unallocated space."

[@richardgordon6653]

Been watching recently and amazed I was subbed. Done.

[@baldlyrudy]

Thanks, man! I appreciate it.

[@ZaberfangX]

On the last part, proton default to what ever proton set to with in the setting in steamos/bazzite, what you did is right on changing proton if a game is not working when it should for some reason, as for that game it maybe running the opengl linux port as don't default to windows port unless force proton on it.

[@baldlyrudy]

Awesome! Thank you for clarifying that. I was taken aback when I ran Portal 2. It was so choppy. Lol

[@gabru3712]

I'm watching this video on my new ally x

[@joystickblaze]

Hello, Rudy! New subcriber here! Nice video by the way. Just a little advice, the videos on gaming and hardware topics would look much better if you increased the resolution since the degradation of KZbin already does enough damage. 1080p content only looks good on a mobile. This is just a contribution on my part because I like what you do on your channel. Thank you so much!

[@LISTEDGames]

You didnt show any performance benchmarks, or whether bazzite is as efficient as steam os, running games on low tdp. I can run ac oddysey at 8-9 tdp.

[@hidden_name7469]

Because that's the actual processor it has not, steam OS. It doesn't work like that, the rog ally X is much more powerful but after 15 Watts.

[@astrovewlix]

Hey Rudy (again): You state that during the end of the Bazzite installation that the installer "will look online for updates," but you never call out directions to set up network connections during the Bazzite installation configuration...just disk and user stuff (which with the install isn't possible [as I previously pointed out] if you use Drive Genius with default settings). Couple of things I was able to recover quickly from, but I'm sure many watching this will be frustrated with...

[@sunku260]

I turned my Steam Deck to Rog ally x. seems like nobody is happy with what they got...

[@techzone2009]

@@sunku260 windows sucks. Steam os is 👌

[@HandheldGamingHQ]

so you turned your steam deck into a portable heater ? 😅

[@techzone2009]

@HandheldGamingHQ winter is coming 😆😆. I use linux over Windows 🪟

[@techzone2009]

@HandheldGamingHQ winter is coming 😅

[@absolutelyfookinnobody2843]

@@techzone2009 bots

[@Cheema-u7r]

Thank you for the detailed walkthrough. Is there an option to enable disable RIS, FRS,etc?

[@baldlyrudy]

Hi there! Thank you! Not yet, but I believe those options are in the works.

[@Spencerwalker21]

The modcase with just the back on will it fit in the steam deck carrying case I'm wondering if it'll damage the joy sticks

[@vitorbotossi]

Hi BalddRudy, would be possible to split the new SSD in 3 parts and have OSs in both and one partition only for the games? In that way, for those who have OG Ally and don’t want to try their luck with SD barbecue… would that be possible?

[@kalvin.]

Im pretty sure you can, you'd partition the main SSD to take out 1/3rd and do it again for the last 3rd. But obviously you'd want to upgrade internal SSD before splitting 3 ways

[@baldlyrudy]

Yup. 100%.

[@allenfrisch]

You definitely can, but you can also share your Steam library on a Micro SD card or thumbdrive.

[@richardgordon6653]

Do the onexfly f1 pro. Can’t wait for mine in the mail.

[@VeegovonDOOM]

How does this work with an eGPU, if at all?

[@OneQuarterLife]

It works, but AMD only

[@Jose-ue3bu]

SteamOS coming officially

[@baldlyrudy]

Yeah, with no release date.

[@BS1071M]

@@baldlyrudy I will wait, need a dad easy button.

[@__Itsshassan]

Is there anyway to make steamos the default boot because i have the window boot script setup on my steam deck too but whenever i turn on my deck it loads into the windows boot and not steamos

[@baldlyrudy]

If you have a partition, restart your handheld while holding down the volume down button. That'll get you into your BIOS. I'm the top right have corner, you should see a "Boot Priority" section. Make sure that your drive that has SteamOS/Bazzite is first. Save and Exit, Save Configuration, Restart.

[@__Itsshassan]

@baldlyrudy I think I done this before but I'll try again I think when I done this before the windows boot script stops working

[@markaznar1979]

Is the process exactly the same for the Lenovo legion Go??

[@Tucanazo69]

@@markaznar1979 Very similar but there's an specific ISO for Legion GO

[@christianp7571]

Hey i love your video. Almost everything worked for me. But the windows 11 Script Part seams not to work for me. When i lauch windows nothing happends. Do i have to enable something do make the Script work? Do you have some advice? Thnaks

[@julianf40ify]

Have used bazzite on my og ally and then ally x both times I eventually went back to windows currently my gaming has been either FC24 or BO6 so bazzite has just been ignored

[@baldlyrudy]

Nothing wrong with that. Having the option to go either or is awesome though.

[@brianscott5683]

How do u remove bazzite if u no long want it on your ally x sorry if that’s a dumb question???

[@baldlyrudy]

@brianscott5683 you can delete the partition so BIOS has no other boot option but Windows.

[@brianscott5683]

Nice thanks your videos are amazing

[@baldlyrudy]

@brianscott5683 thanks man!

[@777abk]

I appreciate the video help but you skipped the part of showing how to add the picture for the windows shortcut on the steam. Plus it doesn't even work

[@christianp7571]

Doesn’t work for me either 😢

[@geargone]

Same here didn't work

[@ryansummers9660]

wont work for me either

[@baldlyrudy]

Hey all! I spoke with the developers of Bazzite and this is what they said about the error: "btw that chmod should be `chmod +x` to add the executable bit to the script. i guess steam launches it through bash anyway without the executable bit since `+0` i dont think does anything, at least it didnt remove permissions 🙂"

[@clem9808]

These channels keeps ignoring the 100$ price increase of steamdeck, which mainly caused by their nonstop glazing.

[@lilrockstar77]

It’s not the power I wanted as a switch owner. I just wanted steam games..

[@Anyrhing77]

why not just using windows 11 and auto start steam with big picture mode? is pretty much like using a steam deck

[@emmanoelferreira8951]

@@Anyrhing77 I have the same question. What’s the advantage of Bazzite over running Steam in Big Picture mode?

[@LuisPerez-5]

It doesn't have all the background crap running that Windows has.

[@Nsfwstar]

@@LuisPerez-5 You can disable that crap yourself, the telemetry even lol

[@Anyrhing77]

@@LuisPerez-5 windows is optimized so the background stuff will not affect perfomance on gaming, is called gaming mode, at the end rog ally performs a lot better than the steam deck

[@robsauceda4087]

Also big picture mode on windows doesn’t always work as intended with sometimes steam showing in windowed mode

[@youngjordy8618]

Beautiful guide! Question though: I partitioned the hard drive and love bazzite… now I want to give bazzite more space and take from windows on the partitioned hard drive. Can I just follow the steps and expand (rather than redo whole process) it via the same process or do I need to follow a different path? Sorry, everyone on Reddit makes it sound like bazzite needs to be given extra space in a special way. Not sure if bazzite would accept such a simple expansion allocation

[@baldlyrudy]

Thank you! I believe it should. And I think the easiest way would be to simply go into Disk Genius and expand the Bazzite partition. Once I get back home from a work trip, I can try it.

[@youngjordy8618]

@@baldlyrudy That would be so helpful!! Thanks man!! You earned a new sub :)

[@Nsfwstar]

Use playnite or steam big picture mode on windows 11 and you will get almost the same experience with basically no downsides in compatibility terms

[@Y-jj7yt]

Still no trackpads..

[@enutrofdude]

Standard buttons + analog sticks + touchscreen + trackpads is truly a great combo for a handheld gaming pc. People will obviously have their own preferences in operating systems and overall performance, but having more input options is definitely a win.

[@robertcastanpn288]

@@enutrofdude trackpads ist just for tth some games have controller support but still need tracks pads to use the menu

[@hidden_name7469]

Good, hate the trackpads

[@ravenouspathogen]

I've seen so many videos do this and I keep wondering why that on these windows handhelds, just install steam, make "big picture mode" from the view tab be the startup and you have the steam os setup from the startup? I don't have a handheld, but playing on steam in windows 11 on my laptop, wouldn't big screen steam be the way to go instead of these roundabout ways?

[@baldlyrudy]

Not really, and that's my bad for not mentioning it in the video. Steam Big Picture Mode didn't always work 100% of the time. The Sleep/Wake functionality is miles ahead of how it functions in Windows, which makes it truly feel like a handheld instead of a PC that has a controller built in. Shaders caching before launch is nice for game performance, IMO. But yeah, a lot of it comes down to preference. Since most of the games that I play aren't tied down to having to work on Windows, I prefer this. Valve has said that they're releasing an official version of Steam OS for these handhelds, but in the meantime, this is what we have.

[@donniedarko4497]

The steam deck 2 would have rdna 5.

[@AkiRa22084]

Who cares about the OS? I need the trackpad.

[@lushlagoonbomb901]

I was about to return my Steam Deck on first day of getting it until i installed windows 11 on it. IT A GODSEND! So much better than Linux.

[@LuisPerez-5]

A bit late but OK

[@windows_98se]

Bazzite is still not good as HoloISO don't @ me on that, Bazzite is based on Fedora when HoloISO is based on good old Arch Linux

[@thomaszinecker1785]

Steam deck dropped with okder gen 2 hardware, it sucks. The deck is for poor people.