You can see some hardware information at https://store.steampowered.com/account/hardwareused. There's an example here: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-find-steam-deck-hardware-specifications/.
zelmon64
joined 1 year ago
There are lots of useful programs that can be installed through the Discover Software Center as flatpacks. Some of my favourites are Gimp, Kdenlive, Kodi, Blender, LibreOffice, CoreKeyboard, Discord, Flatseal, KDiskMark, MComix, Calibre, and Pidgin.
Some fun ones are Space Cadet Pinball, Prism Launcher (for Minecraft) and Heroic Games Launcher (for GOG, Epic Games and now also Amazon Games).
I agree that this needs to be an option but unfortunately I haven't seen any solutions either.
I don't think there's a significant performance difference but I haven't tested it. One difference is that Desktop mode still uses X11 whereas Gaming mode uses Wayland. That can effect some programs but I don't think any games mind which is used.
Last time I checked Shift+Tab would bring up the overlay in Desktop mode but nothing worked in Gaming mode.
I really like this Shiekah Slate one: https://steamdeckrepo.com/post/nv4lN/botw_shiekah_slate_boot_video
Another method is to save the config as a template. The whole situation is so frustrating because before the switch to the Deck UI there was another tab which listed your configs for other games. I hope they bring that tab back at some point!