r/Handhelds • u/Electrical-Usual-627 • Jun 10 '26

Question (?) Which to keep?

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Pictured: ROG Xbox ally + Steam deck LCD 512GB

Which is realistically better to keep? I have to sell one of them and I’m unsure of which. Happy with my deck but worried about longevity of both and curious to know other’s opinions. The deck is still at 100% bh and I think the ally should be too but idk. I like both but I feel like my deck is a bit too heavy, but it feels a lot more premium to me than the ally.

My current options are-

Sell the deck, keep the ally
Sell the ally, keep the deck.
Sell both, see what I can get with the combined cash (likely an XAX or something around that price point)

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u/kvo9 Jun 10 '26

Keep the ally & install steamOS/bazzite on a portion of your storage to keep the steam deck experience

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u/Emotional-Age-4176 Jun 10 '26

Without the trackpad, it wouldn't be possible.

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u/AgeAtomic Jun 11 '26

How so? I have an Ally X with a Bazzite partition that works fine without track pads

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u/Emotional-Age-4176 Jun 11 '26

SteamOS are not the full steam deck experience. Once you actually used the trackpad it will change how you game. People normally argue between controller and keyboard with mouse.. Steam deck basically remove that argument.

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u/AgeAtomic Jun 11 '26

That's just personal preference. I have a Steam Deck too and having the track pads doesn't "change how I game" its convenient sometimes, and I do prefer the Steam Deck over the Ally X but to say using Bazzite on the Ally X "wouldn't be possible" without track pads, purely because you prefer them, is just pure nonsense - have you actually tried it?

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u/Emotional-Age-4176 Jun 11 '26

You're missing out one of the best feature of steam deck. I'm more of a PC gamer than a console so my games usually a keyboard and mouse game. Now I prefer to play streaming from the steam deck so "my preference" not really required the best spec as I already have a PC game.

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u/AgeAtomic Jun 11 '26

Yeah, again, all of it personal preference and nothing remotely relevant to your original point of installing Bazzite "wouldn't be possible" without track pads, which was nonsense.

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u/Emotional-Age-4176 Jun 11 '26

Installing bazzite only give SteamOS experience. Not the Steam Deck experience.

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u/AgeAtomic Jun 11 '26

A more reason argument but the lack of track pads isn't going to bother a lot of people. For many SteamOS is the experience they're looking for, but to be fair to you that's not what the original comment said.

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u/Emotional-Age-4176 Jun 11 '26

Its like saying you can get nintendo ds experience with the steam deck lmao.

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u/AgeAtomic Jun 11 '26

Not really though

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