As in SteamOS, a traditional desktop UI will reportedly still be available on the ROG Xbox Ally, but you have to specifically decide to launch it. Hopefully, any version of this interface that also rolls out to generic Windows PCs would also be able to save system resources by shutting the traditional Windows UI off entirely.

We’ve seen it teased, we’ve seen it leaked, but the first “portable Xbox” (those quotes are doing a lot of work, yes) was revealed last night during Microsoft’s latest Xbox gaming showcase. As expected,