• rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Bingo, I saw an ROG Ally(?) on display at Best Buy the other day and it was sitting on the Windows 11 desktop with a couple applications open like any demo laptop out on the floor - what dumbstruck me is that the scaling was set so the interface was absolutely tiny. Of course someone could have messed with DPI settings but it just looked like an interface for ants!

    Windows 8 or 10’s tablet mode would have probably gone a ways towards making it more suited for a handheld but that function is gone.

    At least the bottom edge swipe opens the start menu which I found by mistake. Maybe Big Picture mode would help.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t know why you’re being downvoted, you’re just being helpful

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          1 year ago

          I get that it technically is true but it’s dismissive and misses the issue that a device you drop several hundred dollars on, made by a massive company, and with successful competitors to benchmark against doesn’t have a cohesive UI option out of the box and I expect that it shouldn’t be up to the customer to need to figure out how to fix such a glaring omission out of the box.

          (I haven’t heard of Playnite until that comment mentioned it so I can’t comment on its effectiveness)

          I totally get that it’s a glass half full/empty difference though. (“why should I need to compensate for a massive company’s lack of care?” vs. “oh this fix is quick and good enough for me!”)