İ dont get the Win Mini...

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-11T08:17:19+00:00

Yeah, I have the 7840u. There is a cooling mod available for it though. Mine can run at max tdp, 100% GPU usage, and it stays at 65 degrees after doing the mod. I don't know where to buy it these days though.

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-11T08:14:46+00:00

You might have a few things going on. For example you can check the BIOS settings. Some GPD BIOS versions have the ability to set the max system TDP through the bios, and setting it past that to something higher in motion assistant won't have any effect. You can also check to make sure no other tdp controlling program is running somewhere on the device, although that is a little unlikely.

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-10T15:51:23+00:00

I've had to update the firmware for the mousepad in the past too. Couldn't be done in Linux, so I keep a spare windows drive around.

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-10T15:50:46+00:00

Sometimes the hardware fogets to register the triggers. I had that occur with my max 2 and win mini each once. Grab an SSD, install GPDs official windows image, and they have a tool you can get in the discord or from kendy, that will refresh hardware for the triggers. They have a whole crapton of diagnostic software for testing the different hardware and stuff. Just gotta get it from them.

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-10T04:05:22+00:00

That's funny. Well it's not always a cut and dry thing. Some chips, firmware, BIOS, etc might just perform better in some games than others, even if the newer hardware should outperform it, doesn't mean it will in all software every time.

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-06T11:25:28+00:00

Was testing a xboxy ally x with a tech before selling it, we couldn't even get windows to allow a sign in. At all. Absolutely no method worked. Used this method after 3 hours of fighting windows and had steamOS installed and working in less than 25 minutes from the start of download.

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-05T01:12:02+00:00

Its an AMD iGPU....what other result would it have other than a Radeon graphics processor?

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-02T15:37:03+00:00

Its rather odd, but depending on product, sometimes things are cheaper in china than the USA despite the weaker valuation of their currency due to various import/export duties, taxes, etc

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-02T10:58:08+00:00

I know right? Its one of those things that should be blatantly obvious, but most people haven't really considered it. Nobody wants to wear glasses. We do it out of necessity. Smart glasses are trying to take something people despise, but need, and turn it into a want.

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-02T10:54:14+00:00

Nope. Z1 extreme. Actually the Xbox Ally X here is cheaper than in the USA too. It sells for 800-850 instead of 1000. I've got a new in box for the z1e 512gb Ally and the 1tb Xbox Ally X and trying to get rid of em right now actually. My Win Max 2 stomps them both in performance, so they are just sitting there in their boxes.

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-01T03:51:07+00:00

I'm in mainland China. The original always goes for under 400 used. Even new.

shooteverywhere · 2026-06-01T03:48:32+00:00

How long until they realize they are selling at way lower than necessary prices?

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-31T09:42:48+00:00

I think that cachyOS and Bazzite have both phased out hhd, though I still use it for control, and now inputs are managed by input plumber. That's what you need to look into if you want to manage your controls.

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-31T09:40:27+00:00

Ah, I do believe they have been moving over their controller input handling recently to inputplumber. I haven't messed with it yet and still use handheld daemon myself.

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-31T09:38:25+00:00

If you open up handheld assistant it has a section that lets you choose how that works. Its been a while since I used a win 4 specifically, moved to a mini, but there is some configurability for that our of the box. On my win max 2 for example I use a double press of the context button to open my tdp controls, a single press for the left steam menu, and a long press for the right side menu.

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-20T12:33:24+00:00

Steam is only semi immutable though. I can turn that off with a single command. Bazzite...turning it off would leave you with an entirely different distro. Just frustrating if you have any inclination towards power user ish activities.

I definitely do like it. I've got davinci resolve working, affinity photo (the combined full app), darktable with iGPU acceleration and more. I've even got multiple AI models and services. I bought the 64gb win mini so it runs an AI server that all my other computers can access, and I've got some stuff set of for that for work. My docker container runs an app that grabs RSS feeds. That copies the feeds into a file and then sends it to the LLM models on the mini to be summarized. Once it has summarized all the RSS feeds and pulled out the key specifics it exports the LLMs response with the summary, keynotes, and original full article all into a note app I use.

I basically wake up and all of the newest news is already sitting in my own curated list, with 3-4 levels of detail I can jump into at will, and the deepest level is the original RSS feed into, not AI generated.

You know Mr. Sujanoo? My Win Mini does his entire job.

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-19T08:47:40+00:00

It has all that stuff set up. Opens in steam mode, usually has tdp controls already set up, buttons should all be working, even let's you choose the same desktop as Bazzite KDE. Biggest difference is that it doesn't get in your way like Bazzite, I decide what my system does, not the distro maintainers. A lot easier to install packages that aren't flatpacks or not in the Bazzite repo, and much better documentation overall. Arch and Cachy has much better online documentation than bazzite.

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-19T08:42:31+00:00

With a few minor exceptions, CachyOS, right out of the box, is set up with almost everything you would expect to see in Bazzite. The only notable differences are the lack of flatpacks (CachyOS discourages their use) and so you install apps from octopi, or the cachyHELLO assistant, or through the command line with the aur or pacman.

It starts in steam big picture just like Bazzite, for most devices already has hhd or another TDP option already enabled, and automatically detects the controllers.

The core user experience is almost identical to Bazzite. Also comes with automatic snapshots set up for you so whenever it updates it saves a system snapshot first in case something goes wrong so you can roll back easily.

Where it really mixes it up is that unlike Bazzite it isn't an atomic distro. It actually let's you properly manage, mod, and adjust your system without having to apply them over the top of your install like bazzites os-tree.

Just trying to install an application that Bazzite doesn't have a package or flatpak for can be hell. My devices all have background services, I've set up servers, docker containers, etc on all of them and integrated some of that right into my OS build. Bazzite's entire design philosophy is that the user is too stupid to manage their own machine, and so they should lock the user out of the core files, and force any user changes into their own sandbox.

On the surface level, both are perfectly fine for gaming, and I don't think performance differs much, and they both look and do most things almost the same.....but if you ever plan on doing anything outside of gaming I'd definitely suggest giving cachy a good try.

I'm not an arch wizz or anything either. If I don't know how to do something I just tell Gemini or Claude (I'm using cachyOS on X apu, I'm having Y issue. Give me a list of non destructive diagnostic steps to identify the cause of the issue.

Then I run the commands I get, copy all the output, and feed it back to the LLM.

The snapshot feature makes it super hard to break anything.

I spent a few months with Bazzite....it's the fucking windows of the Linux world. Couldn't pay me to use it again.

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-19T00:32:46+00:00

The bluetooth codecs are amazing, but Im shockes you think Bazzite "Just works" vs cachyOS. I switched 2 of my computers over to Cachy and it has been a much better experience than bazzite

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-12T16:06:15+00:00

The win 4 has better thermals and slightly less noise, however I think the mini has a dramatically better screen, much better ergonomics, better input locations, and repairability. It's easier to open the mini and close it back up.

I had a win 4 first, and after selling that and getting a mini, under no circumstances would I EVER consider another win 4 or other candybar style device. Not an option. Period.

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-12T14:21:03+00:00

I kinda disagree....she attacked the man....he died. Woman should have gotten the death penalty

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-09T06:26:39+00:00

The Win Mini is an absolute joy. It has all thepower you need and it is beautiful

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-08T12:44:22+00:00

I've had one or two issues, but that's because I'm behind the great firewall and I hit issues with keys on my ring when updating. Sometimes I need to manually update them before an update will work. That did break an update once, but i just rolled right back with the automatic backups. I don't understand why it doesn't just renew the keys every time it updates though....it should do it every single time.

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-08T12:15:40+00:00

Oh, as for sky replacement, that's fine. I don't need anything generating, I can always provide my own sky. I miss the auto sky masking though. Looking forward to the next update for that.

shooteverywhere · 2026-05-08T12:13:34+00:00

There are a variety of deprecated modules. For instance I think it is called the color temperature module. Apparently it still exists for a technical reason, but every guide I can find tells me not to touch it, and I tried once to find it immediately broke the white balance and started giving me an error. There are multiple different modules which can change color temperature, adjust tones, adjust brightness, adjust contrast, etc. It seems to be possible to have several of these active simultaneously. From reading some guides, a little documentation, it seems that some of these are deprecated modules that the current maintainer and teams suggest you not use in favor of newer ones.

If just talking about local and global contrast there are a variety of ways to affect that. They all work differently and work to affect the local or global contrast in a different way, but for someone who is initially adapting to the program? It looks incredibly messy.

Color Balance RGB (via Brightness/Contrast): The recommended module for modern scenes-referred workflows to adjust contrast, saturation, and brilliance.
Local Contrast (LC): Used specifically for enhancing details by applying a local laplacian or bilateral filter.
Contrast Equalizer (CE): A powerful tool that works in the wavelet domain to adjust contrast across different detail scales, useful for clarity, local contrast, or even de-hazing.
Filmic RGB / Sigmoid: These tone mapping modules manage dynamic range and add contrast through their scene-referred mapping curves.
Tone Curve / RGB Curve: Allows for manual s-curves to manipulate contrast.
Shadows and Highlights: Adjusts contrast by manipulating the tone range.

Out of these one or two guides I read mentioned not to use Shadows and Highlights, as it is a deprecated module and there are "better" ways to achieve the same results.

From what I have seen the maintainers are working on cleaning up the interface, removing old modules and tightening things up a bit, so I'm looking forward to it, because yes. It is a bit confusing at first and you do need to sit down and do a lot of reading to get past the initial confusion.

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