there’s also bazzite. (fedora based on uBlue, uses kde)

But I see no reason for myself to switch away from SteamOS.

I am using bazzite on my gaming desktop PC. It does a good job.

If you switch away from steamOS you may not find as many places with people to chat with for support.

tip: don’t install fish or whatever, change your default shell, THEN uninstall fish because you don’t like it.

Change your default shell back first.

I have seen way too many support posts where people paint their self I to a corner doing that.

or just don’t change the default shell.

run fish as needed, then exit back to bash when done.

I have

I am reminded of the ability MANY years ago to write the kernel file directly to a floppy disk, or start of a hard drive and somehow being able to boot that way.

I just can’t recall how I did it, or WHY I did it.

Back when the kernel would fit on a floppy disk. I am truly showing my age.

6 yr old grandson found a box of old floppy disks and was asking what they were. He started stacking them up making card houses and roads for his matchbox cars. Glad he got some use out of those recycled AOL floppies.

I have seen this used in school situations with 3+ seats per PC.

that can add up when dealing with a dozen+ PCs.

For home use, not much a benefit, but I did have it setup years ago for the grandkids.

there can be various file index services that run to allow faster searching of the system.

these typically run in a schedule, but in a new install they may run on the first boot.

after they run the first time, they will run occasionally on a schedule.

I am not sure if time shift does this or not, I never use that tool.

For mouse battery it may depend on the specific mouse and it’s drivers.

there are some enhanced mouse/keyboard utilities out such as that ‘libratbag’.

ProtonVPN supports the OpenVPN client , so you can import your proton VPN settings in to that, no need for the official proton VPN GUI client.

However you do lose some of the more advanced features of proton VPN.

you could use MXlinux and it’s remaster tools/feature to build your own custom USB/iso.

MXlinux makes such a task rather easy.

remove stuff you don’t need to get it as small as you desire.

I have seen a similar issue a few times, but not regularly, and I have not seen it since the last update.

I could see the game running, if I hit the menu/steam button, it would show up under the steam menus.

I could even hear the game sounds and music.

a reboot normally fixed things.

I have also had sleep issue where the deck would wake up, then go back to sleep after impressed the power button. I set the auto sleep timeout to be never, and have not seen this happen any longer.

it’s like the deck woke up, checked the clock, and decided it was idling for the proper timeout to auto sleep.

for testing, and no, no issues at all with the various dot files.

Cluttered app menus, and an occasional “default open with app” setting changed is about the only issues.

I have 5+ DEs on my pop_os install, you don’t lose files in your users home.

I just use in my Exec=

Exec=GDK_SCALE=2 steam

but that may differ in looks from the options you are using

I have a steam-big-ui.desktop that gives me the option to run in big mode, or I run normal steam for small mode.

You did right click and select ‘allow launching’ on the greyed out short cut icon?