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by justinsaccount 1 day ago
> You can't use many of the features it's capable of in gaming mode

It is trivial to switch between gaming mode and desktop mode. I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here.
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Forgeties79 15 hours ago
It didn’t used to be, just to be clear. It crashed constantly during the transition until about a year or so ago.

But anyway, they’re talking about resource usage in desktop mode and saying it doesn’t matter. I think it matters.

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Rohansi 5 hours ago
If you're playing games only in desktop mode then you're throwing away most of the benefits of SteamOS. You could install Steam on any Linux distro and have the same experience.

Gaming mode skips running the entire desktop environment and runs games in a minimal environment. KDE is fairly lightweight already but come on, how can it compete with something that just displays one window filling the whole screen?

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