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“It took 12 years of work to get here”: interview with Pierre-Loup Griffais, developer of SteamOS, the flagship OS of the Steam Deck
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this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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I only play games in my living room. I can't stand Big Picture mode. It's awkward and has a lot of useless stuff in it. Just make the regular UI controller usable, Valve. That's all you need to do. There's no reason to have two different UIs.
Is this a new version of BP though?
Edit: looks like they have changed it a little. It's definitely more useable. But there doesn't seem to be a way to access the workshop. Why is everything so freaking big? Do they not know that TVs aren't CRT anymore? They don't need giant icons for everything anymore.
Edit2: Big picture doesn't show nonsteam games. Not using it. Half my games are not from steam.
In case it is helpful: Big Picture Mode does show non-Steam games. Go to the library and there is a tab for them. They'll also show in the recent games list on the home page.
There's a tab for non-steam games in Big Picture.
I didn't see it. I'll check it out some other time. All the other issues with it still remain though.
Valve completely redesigned Big Picture Mode for Steam Deck and SteamOS. They've been porting those changes over to Desktop Steam and even changing Desktop Steam's UI slowly to match and make everything more consistant.
Non-Steam Games:
Steam Workshop:
Disclaimer: I have a theme mod installed which changes the color of some elements. Layout is the same though.
Interesting. Guess it's not on desktop.
Not sure what's not on Desktop for you. I'm on the Steam Desktop Beta and this all shows up on my Desktop Big Picture.
PS: These screenshots were made on a Windows PC which is why the Compatibility tab isn't in the Game settings.
You answered your own question. You're using a beta version.
Yeah, but they're coming to Desktop stable soon. Or you can switch to Beta and try them out. It's up to you. Just wanted to show that Valve is addressing the issues with Big Picture Mode.
I'm happy they are. I might actually use it. Thank you
DPI scaling of the regular steam GUI can also be wonky if you have different monitors. For example, I mainly use steam on my lower DPI secondary monitor, but it wanted to scale based on my 4k main one. Could be fixed with an override though.