Curious about this too. Desktop Mode is horrible on Deck. You can’t install apps from the command line because they just get deleted on every update, including CUPS which made printing a huge hassle. You have to jump through hoops to get it to mount an external hard drive automatically. I could never get Discord voice or video chats to actually work. But if you install a separate distro, you lose out on the performance settings that are locked to Game Mode.

I’d love to use this as a dedicated desktop PC too, so I’m hoping Valve will finally fine-tune Desktop mode so people can actually use it. Maybe they could even let us boot directly into Desktop Mode this time?