{"id":100715,"date":"2025-10-28T20:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=aa1e4c36eea674c62e373a50c78051ac"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:37:50","slug":"say-it-with-me-windows-is-the-problem-with-windows-handhelds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=100715","title":{"rendered":"Say it with me: Windows is the problem with Windows handhelds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/807711\/xbox-ally-sleep-fail-bazzite-fix-performance\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: After at least a decade of \"yEAr Of ThE lInUx DeSkToP\" and \"But muh gaming\" memes about Linux, this state of affairs is hilarious. \nTurns out the Windows APIs running on a Linux host are better than either :\/<\/div><figure>\n\n<img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/sean-hollister-verge-xbox-ally-bazzite-331A1423.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n\t<figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It's been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar company, shipped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/799698\/xbox-ally-x-review-asus-microsoft-full-screen-experience\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a $600 handheld \"Xbox\"<\/a> that can't be relied on to sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep in my tests. Neither Microsoft nor Asus would admit there's a problem with the white Xbox Ally or offer a timeline to fix it after repeated requests by <em>The Verge<\/em>. (Asus tells me it needs more time to test.)<\/p>\n<p>But if you want your white Asus handheld to start working reliably, you <em>could<\/em> do what I did: I installed the latest build <a href=\"https:\/\/bazzite.gg\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">of Bazzite<\/a>, a SteamOS-like, Linux-based operating system that works properly with gamepad controls, and sleeps like a dream. I didn't need to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/807711\/xbox-ally-sleep-fail-bazzite-fix-performance\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly two weeks since Microsoft, a multi-trillion dollar co&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=100715\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}