The A button, right trigger, or clicking the right trackpad are your left clicks (the trackpad is more reliable than the thumbsticks in our experience), and the left trigger works as a right click. In the desktop, you’ll use the right thumbstick, right trackpad to move the mouse, or just tap the screen to move the mouse. This will launch a desktop version of the SteamOS. Switch your Steam Deck to desktop mode by hitting the Steam button, selecting Power, and then hitting Switch to Desktop. Install Microsoft Edge on your Steam Deck Hit Power and then Switch to Desktop. But with a little patience and technical savvy, you’ll be able to get Game Pass working on a Steam Deck. It takes a bit of work to convince Valve’s handheld to run these games, though, and the process is a bit intimidating. (Microsoft continually increases its Cloud Gaming offerings - as of this writing, almost 370 games have such support.) To clarify: you can’t actually install any Game Pass games on the Steam Deck, but you can install a browser that runs Cloud Gaming - which will allow you to stream most games from the Game Pass library. And that means you can trick it into playing (most) Game Pass games through a browser with Xbox Cloud Gaming. The SteamOS running on your Steam Deck is built on a Linux distro, which means it’s really just a handheld computer. Over at Microsoft, a Game Pass Ultimate subscription gets you access to not quite 500 games from the Xbox catalogue. With a Steam Deck in your hands, you’ll have access to your entire Steam library whenever and wherever you want.

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