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If you use a different distro ¿do you still have access to the "game mode"? ¿Or do you launch everything from "desktop mode" (which is just the default for other distros)?
The steam game mode is just big picture mode which can be enabled on steam on any distro
Not exactly, the UI is the same, but game mode doesn't have a DE running in the background using resources and some other changes.
Don't think so. Big Picture mode still let's you alt tab out to other applications. Essentially it's a full screen window. Game mode seems to unload the desktop environment. This is quite handy for longer battery life. It also gives you different controller and keyboard layouts.
i might be wrong, but setting up the steam client as an option in whatever display manager ('login screen') one uses would likely work. i've done that with renoise the music tracker.
Game mode is Big Picture running on a gamescope-only session.
You can get that on other distros, like ChimeraOS does [0] but it takes a bit of work and some options will probably not work the way you expect them.
Particularly anything to do with Networking config or Bluetooth will probably not be present at all.
[0] https://github.com/ChimeraOS/gamescope-session
It would just have a "desktop mode". But of course it should be possible to add your own game mode if you want to. Especially when you have full control over the distribution.