Thursday, April 9th 2026 ASUS ROG Xbox Ally Gets Improved Desktop Navigation via Game Bar's Gamepad Cursor by Cpt.Jank Today, 16:07 Discuss (0 ) Aside from SteamOS being more tailored to the gaming handheld form factor, one of the Steam Deck's major differentiating factors is its trackpads, which make navigating desktop mode significantly less painful than it would otherwise be. While this trait is shared by the likes of the Lenovo Legion Go, it is not present on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X, making navigating Windows more challenging. Finally, though, as spotted by ROG Ally Life, the Xbox Game Bar has introduced an option to use the left thumb stick as a mouse cursor in desktop mode. [ 's note: Our in-depth review of the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X is now live] For the time being, this feature is limited to the Xbox Game Bar Insider Program, but it should make it to the mainline release version soon enough if no major bugs are spotted. After the toggle is enabled in Game Bar, players can move the cursor with the left analog stick and click with the A button on the controller. This is also only the latest in Microsoft's recent efforts playing catch-up with the competition on the Windows front, with the company recently announcing both a new initiative to improve the quality of Windows 11 and beginning to implement better RAM management across the operating system. Source: ROG Ally Life Related News Tags: ASUS ASUS ROG Xbox Ally Asus ROG Xbox Ally X Beta Controller Gaming Handheld handheld gaming insider Insider Preview Launch ROG ROG Ally Software test Update Windows Windows 11 Xbox Xbox Game Bar Aug 18th 2025 Microsoft Windows 11 24H2 Update May Cause SSD Failures (278) Oct 21st 2025 Windows 11 25H2 October Update Bug Renders Recovery Environment Unusable (170) Oct 17th 2025 Microsoft Breaks Localhost with Windows 11 October Update, Users Forced to Revert (105) Oct 1st 2025 Microsoft Releases Windows 11 25H2... With Zero New Features? (104) Aug 19th 2025 Phison Responds to Windows 11 24H2 Update Crashing SSDs (97) Oct 7th 2025 Microsoft Blocks Online Account Bypass on Windows 11 (162) Dec 14th 2025 Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted (144) Dec 31st 2025 Leaks Predict $5000 RTX 5090 GPUs in 2026 Thanks to AI Industry Demand (124) Sep 19th 2025 ASUS Proposes Reinforced PCIe Slot to Deliver 250 W of Power From the Motherboard (95) Feb 21st 2026 AMD Seemingly Stops Driver Updates for Ryzen Z1 Extreme Processor (119) Add your own on ASUS ROG Xbox Ally Gets Improved Desktop Navigation via Game Bar's Gamepad Cursor There are no yet.
