[Forgeties79]

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.

[Rohansi]

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?