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[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

In game mode if you navigate to library then to non-steam, if your list is empty it will prompt you to install Chrome. Maybe it was somewhere else, but yes, the prompt exists regardless.

Edit: Picure I got from the Interner to illustrate my comment:

Edit 2: More proof that it never happened and either I'm imagining things or making it up:

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Did they install chrome in desktop mode and Steam picked it up and asked if they wanted a shortcut to it? From what I can tell you get Firefox by default in desktop mode?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Nope... It's literally just a placeholder to allow people in game mode to install chrome and access the Internet without having to switch to desktop mode.

Until they make a better way to add non-Steam shortcuts in game mode.

It literally explains it in the prompt.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Then that's like a totally avoidable thing. There is no Google Chrome there unless you want it to have it

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago
[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I got this same prompt the first time I used my Steam Deck and I don't use Chrome at all, so no.

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Hm, well that's a bummer 😯 Thanks for clarifying.

[–] thethirdobject@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Never had any prompt for google services in 2+ years of owning a sd, i don't know why you're so affirmative about something you don't actually seem to be sure about

[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Because I also got this prompt the first time I used my Steam Deck, but I wasn't sure where I got it.

[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You'll get it once when you access Non-Steam library for thw first time. If you refuse it you'll never see it again

[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

That's what I thought, I installed CachyOS on my Legion Go last week and I'd swear it appeared there too.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Oh no a prompt