All I saw was "bought a Steam Deck 2" and got really excited for a second!

I usually put it to sleep unless I know it will be off for longer than a day.

Always use sleep mode with the Steam Deck. The suspend feature gets a lot of use out of me.

The point of the thing for me is frictionless access to games. Even more than the portability.

If i can switch it on and play a game while the water boils, then the deck has made my life better. If i had to turn it on full boot + launch the game and wait for 3 loading screens with promts to continue in the middle. I would not ever bother playing it.

Just let it sleep. Booting up will require more and you miss out on the instant wake feature to continue where you left off. 7% is a bit excessive, maybe reinstall it fresh from a factory image to be sure.

Started off putting it to sleep all the time, but would sometimes not play for a few days and find the battery drained. Switched to shutting it down most of the time, except for when I am out/traveling or know I will be picking it back up to play within the hour.

I almost never shut mine down. I have never had a problem.

It depends. If I know I’ll be picking it up to play again from where I left off in a few hours, I will put it to sleep. But if I’m done for the day, I will shut it down.

I’ve had some issues getting it to turn on from sleep mode though, so tend to shut it down more than put it to sleep.

i've been having issues where the device would be unresponsive when waking it up from sleep (either during a game or in desktop mode) and the only option would be a hard shutdown, so i've become wary of sleep mode.
i'm still using it 90% of the time, but i make sure to save my progress beforehand.