Especially since one of the best features is basically unmentioned. Turn on your steam deck and before you sign in for the first time, you can boot straight to the desktop. Just wish there was a toggle in Plasma to boot to desktop by default.
For all intents and purposes, you don’t need to log into steam to play games on the steam deck which is honestly shocking where most new hardware basically requires you to agree to sign in to begin using your device.
Looking at you Windows 11
Just to make sure you noticed, when you’re in “gaming mode”, you can switch to desktop mode easily by going to power menu (either by pressing the power button, or gui power button) and it’ll offer you to switch.