[leetharris]

I have the Xbox Ally, Steam Deck, and original Ally.

The original Ally software launch was a disaster. Unbelievable amount of bugs and overall terrible user experience. After 6+ months of updates it was decent.

I figured, hey, maybe they figured it out in advance this time? So I pre-ordered an Xbox Ally.

It is a complete disaster in terms of software. It took 90 minutes to setup and download initial updates on a Google Fiber connection. Things break constantly.

The other day, I got a new error, "Something went wrong and your PIN isn't available." When I try to click anything, it just goes black. After 6 or 7 restarts, it randomly glitches out and takes me right to desktop without any PIN.

It is just constant bullshit like this. The entire experience breaks over, and over, and over. I hate it so much. Back to Steam Deck.

[rocmcd]

I don't mean to be rude, but why would you give them even more money after screwing it up so bad the first time? You're just rewarding bad behavior at this point.

[rjh29]

OP explained that. The original was stable after 6 months of patches. The Xbox Ally should in theory have that stability baked in. Everyone deserves a second chance. Not so much a third.

[pjmlp]

Unfortunately that is what happens when they keep laying off people, and the new interns have hardly done any Windows development.

See the mess on Windows development experience since Project Reunion reboot, or how WinRT transition was completely mismanaged.

But hey Satya got his bonus.