Fuckin nuisance

Desktop mode is good.

Big Picture Mode is good.

Why it's so easy to accidentally switch between the two makes no fucking sense.

Why it's easy is because the window control buttons are slightly different on steam then on every other window on the PC, putting the big picture mode button right behind where the minimize button usually is. Why Valve did this? No fucking clue.

It is news to me that people feel this strongly about steam big picture mode.

I actually love BPM, but the button to enter is right next to the steamvr button so I usually pull a "this little maneuver is gonna cost us a minute" whenever I misclick and it's often when I'm late for a VR social event.
I have never even heard of steam big picture mode.
- It's about a decade old but it's the couch version of Steam, completely navigable with a controller. If you've ever seen a Steam Deck, that's just Big Picture Mode.

Steam big picture mode enjoyer here, I generally just use it on my steam deck though. I get the vr misclick thing as I never use VR but I’ve never accidentally opened it

Why would you need to use big picture mode on your steam deck when its entire gaming UI is designed for it?
- I mean the gaming UI is big picture mode, essentially, that’s what I’m referring to

for REAL. all my homies hate steam big picture

edit: I mean on PC when you're not using a controller, it definitely has a use.
though tbh I don't think the UI design is that great tbh. The switches homepage is better imo

I love big picture mode for my use case - my living room PC boots it automatically for couch gaming with a controller. That being said, the button to launch it from the steam desktop client is very poorly positioned and I also understand the complaints about the Xbox button causing it to launch.

Big picture mode is great, how easy it is to start it up accidentally isn't

I've had this happen maybe 3 times in my life. Skill issue fr

Yup. If I want to turn off my controller I have to hit what would be the Xbox button on an Xbox controller, and that also opens BPM. Really annoying.

Alt + Enter to exit big picture mode.

Neat, I never knew that

Big picture mode runs like shit on my computer, it takes like 3 minutes for it to fully open before I can even close it

Back on my potato computer days I knew it as "turn steam into a PowerPoint presentation" button

What is big picture mode?

Makes steam full screen and fully usable with just a controller
- Thanks!

First time I did it I thought I seriously fucked up

I do this so much by accident in desktop mode on the Steamdeck with a Steam controller. I dunno why big picture mode is apparently bound to pressing the Steam button on the controller (not every time, just sometimes!), but why is it even bound to anything when I've just switched intentionally to desktop mode? Why would I switch away from gaming mode just to enable big picture? What's the use case that they're catering to here by making it so easy to accidentally be in this situation?

Anyhow, pretty amazing that this minor annoyance is almost the only thing to complain about with my Steamdeck experience. Best gaming console I've ever had.

Honestly, I just want steam to sync my settings between computers (best they can). That would be... Game changing.

I dunno how common a use case that would be. I've a laptop that makes a great job of Dwarf Fortress but gets a bit hot and choppy when doing 3D, and a gaming desktop for 'everything else'. I certainly don't want those settings synchronised. My friends with Steam Decks like the cloud saves but need to set lower settings than their 'main computers'. Strikes me as unusual to have multiple machines with roughly equal capability, unless you're an internet cafe from the 90's and have multiplayer Doom set up.
- I think you misunderstood what I desire, I'm not saying to sync game settings. I merely want configurations such as "disable the advert pop-up" and "turn off Xbox controller xbox button launches big picture mode" (whatever it's called in the actual settings) to sync across my devices. Heck add a toggle and a page that let's people decide what to sync completely optionally. I'd still love it. Lol

My thing is I wish there was an easy way to get out of BPM. The few times I've accidentally switched to it, it takes me at least twice as long to find out where the button to switch back is

Edit: whenever I go to the power button on the sidebar in BPM, it never gives me an option to exit, just to turn off my PC completely.

BOO!!!!!!!!!!

Big picture mode is amazing, I have my living room PC boot straight to big picture mode.