Don’t think so. Big Picture mode still let’s you alt tab out to other applications. Essentially it’s a full screen window. Game mode seems to unload the desktop environment. This is quite handy for longer battery life.
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K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months agoThe steam game mode is just big picture mode which can be enabled on steam on any distro
takeheart@lemmy.world 7 months ago
tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
i might be wrong, but setting up the steam client as an option in whatever display manager (‘login screen’) one useswould likely work. i’ve done that with renoise the music tracker.
c10l@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Game mode is Big Picture running on a gamescope-only session.
You can get that on other distros, like ChimeraOS does [0] but it takes a bit of work and some options will probably not work the way you expect them.
Particularly anything to do with Networking config or Bluetooth will probably not be present at all.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Not exactly, the UI is the same, but game mode doesn’t have a DE running in the background using resources and some other changes.