Feedback of bugs on the MSI Claw A8, also experience with it
The suspend animation in Bazzite is missing when pressing the button to suspend or resume the console, although suspension itself works perfectly.
When I first started using it, sometimes I tried to exit a game and the menus would freeze. It only happened a couple of times.
After about a week with Bazzite, vibration suddenly stopped working even though it had worked perfectly before. The only thing I did before the issue appeared was connecting the console (dock mode), and several times a Deck update popped up asking to download with the screen off (repetitive bug). Every time it tried, it gave an error, but the last time—right before vibration disappeared—it installed successfully.
I fixed this by updating Handheld Daemon to the test version, and then going back to stable.
The back buttons and button combinations for bringing up the keyboard or taking screenshots/clips don’t seem to work.
I would love improved speaker equalization. Out of all the PC handhelds I’ve tested with Bazzite, the MSI Claw A8 has given me the most satisfying experience—even more than the Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS or Bazzite. But although the sound quality holds up better than other consoles, there is still a big difference compared to Windows due to the lack of DTS processing, and the volume is also lower. For context: on Windows, the audio level and quality are at the same level—or better in some aspects—than the Xbox Ally X on Windows. On Bazzite it is noticeably worse.
Mouse emulation with the stick doesn’t work on the desktop; I had to use the touchscreen all the time.
I can’t type the “@” symbol on the keyboard (I’m Spanish).
Performance drops when the battery reaches 20–30%, and I can’t find an option like in Windows to disable this automatic battery-saving performance reduction.
After resuming from suspend, there’s a small echo for about 2 seconds, but without distortion—unlike the Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go S, where the echo and distortion were worse.
When I first started using it, sometimes I tried to exit a game and the menus would freeze. It only happened a couple of times.
After about a week with Bazzite, vibration suddenly stopped working even though it had worked perfectly before. The only thing I did before the issue appeared was connecting the console (dock mode), and several times a Deck update popped up asking to download with the screen off (repetitive bug). Every time it tried, it gave an error, but the last time—right before vibration disappeared—it installed successfully.
I fixed this by updating Handheld Daemon to the test version, and then going back to stable.
The back buttons and button combinations for bringing up the keyboard or taking screenshots/clips don’t seem to work.
I would love improved speaker equalization. Out of all the PC handhelds I’ve tested with Bazzite, the MSI Claw A8 has given me the most satisfying experience—even more than the Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS or Bazzite. But although the sound quality holds up better than other consoles, there is still a big difference compared to Windows due to the lack of DTS processing, and the volume is also lower. For context: on Windows, the audio level and quality are at the same level—or better in some aspects—than the Xbox Ally X on Windows. On Bazzite it is noticeably worse.
Mouse emulation with the stick doesn’t work on the desktop; I had to use the touchscreen all the time.
I can’t type the “@” symbol on the keyboard (I’m Spanish).
Performance drops when the battery reaches 20–30%, and I can’t find an option like in Windows to disable this automatic battery-saving performance reduction.
After resuming from suspend, there’s a small echo for about 2 seconds, but without distortion—unlike the Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go S, where the echo and distortion were worse.
