Hi everyone
I now own a Steam Deck and love it quite a lot. One of my few complaints so far is... the Desktop Mode (running under KDE Plasma) of the Steam Deck, while powerful, only feature english language, AND you can't add any other language.
In 2023. I don't get it.
To add salt on the injury, a FAQ on Microsoft website about how to add the Game Pass xCloud to the Steam Deck features the whole Desktop mode in flippin' French and for the life of me I can't find how they did it.
Xbox Game Pass on Steam Deck (French)
The main problem with not having my native language available for the Desktop mode is that every single app in the Discover App Manager will only feature English language by default. Libre Office, one of my favorite MS Office tool, is only in english and I had to configure everything so I can keep writing my books in french without having 98% of my text marked as incorrect. And no, there's no way to add languages (in the Steam Deck version) without having some knowledge of KDE / Linux and command lines.
Fun.
Also the keyboard layout by default is obviously in QWERTY instead of AZERTY but at least this can be changed.
I'm quite baffled by this absence ; the Desktop mode is amazing (it's basically a full PC Linux OS), Libre Office, once correctly set, works perfectly for my books and this will replace my aging iPad. I just need this one thing to be fixed.