A pleasant SteamOS replace has pushed the Steam Deck’s OS to a brand new model of KDE Plasma, which powers its desktop mode, and that provides a pleasant pile of helpful stuff you may prefer to make use of. It incorporates stuff from the February (opens in new tab), June (opens in new tab), and October (opens in new tab) updates for Plasma.
The largest options for the informal person are stuff like new swipe gestures to utilize the Deck’s touchscreen, with directional swipes from the display edge to open your desktop grid, overview, open home windows, and the desktop itself. You can even syncrhonize your desktop accent coloration to go alongside the dominant coloration of your wallpaper—fairly enjoyable mixed with the image of the day characteristic.
The opposite good factor is a bunch of recent help for system tray widgets, that are extraordinarily customizable below KDE Plasma. You may customise that to have stuff like higher battery implementation—or, nice for a cellular gadget, change textual content dimension and add textual content alongside icons.
The replace in any other case tweaked a sleep points with “a small variety of titles, the place particular video games can be frozen or exhibit glitchy habits after waking up.” Which is nice to see, since these are those that actually mess together with your expertise. There are additionally some fairly neat new efficiency tweaks, prefer to particularly permit display tearing so you possibly can decrease latency.
These of y’all who needed your Swap controllers to work once more, by the way in which, had your needs granted a number of days in the past: A hotfix made these get acknowledged, so go to city together with your Professional Controllers and all that. I assume you could possibly use joycons if that is your factor.
You’ll find the total patch notes on Steam. (opens in new tab)