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The point of the thing for me is frictionless access to games. Even more than the portability.
If i can switch it on and play a game while the water boils, then the deck has made my life better. If i had to turn it on full boot + launch the game and wait for 3 loading screens with promts to continue in the middle. I would not ever bother playing it.
Always use sleep mode with the Steam Deck. The suspend feature gets a lot of use out of me.
All I saw was "bought a Steam Deck 2" and got really excited for a second!
I usually put it to sleep unless I know it will be off for longer than a day.
Just let it sleep. Booting up will require more and you miss out on the instant wake feature to continue where you left off. 7% is a bit excessive, maybe reinstall it fresh from a factory image to be sure.
I almost never shut mine down. I have never had a problem.
Started off putting it to sleep all the time, but would sometimes not play for a few days and find the battery drained. Switched to shutting it down most of the time, except for when I am out/traveling or know I will be picking it back up to play within the hour.
Honestly most of the time I don't even close the game, I just put the device to sleep, I'm usually near an outlet so loosing a few percent doesn't bother me, I do use a plugin to cap the charge to 85% though
What plugin do you use? Is there a measurable benefit?
I use a lot of plugins, all downloadded/installed through Decky Loader, some are just aesthetic, some add features, such as decky recorder which only causes a slight prefomance hit (you really should look at them to see)
Other things that I would recommend that aren't Technically plugins are Cryo Utils (which does have a prefomance boost as explained in The Devs official video here )
And Emudeck for well... Easy emulation, there are a lot of videos for all of these things online if you need tutorials
