In the interest of grabbing data points to plan for some tools for you all, I’m curious what the ratio of users are around here.
How many of y’all are strictly Game mode users, and how many of y’all use it like a laptop?
A lot of what I do on the Deck requires Desktop mode, mainly to get at a terminal and to configure Steam for pirated games. However, that doesn’t mean I couldn’t devise a tool that launches from Game mode to do the same things.
I suspect the latter is going to end up being something that I need to build to be the most useful to a wider audience, but for being pirates I’m sure most of you have entered Desktop mode numerous times for one reason or another.
Not me so idk if this counts, but I got my gf a Steam Deck precisely so that she can daily drive it. We only used desktop mode in SteamOS to set up dual boot initially. Now it defaults into Ubuntu on boot for daily use. Gaming in SteamOS is the more occasional use case.
It counts! Interesting use-case, for sure.
What made you land on dual-booting Ubuntu?