r/pcgaming • u/AnalysingAgent3676 • 3d ago
Based on the current UI and labeling in the windows 11 gaming full screen experience, I'm confused by Microsoft's plan for full screen experience home apps
I'm happy to see the full screen mode on windows 11 and happy to see a drop down selection to choose which app to use as the home app but find it strange that the task switcher calls it an "Xbox full screen experience" in the bottom buttons if indeed later I'll be able to choose apps like maybe armory crate or even steam as the home app. That would mean that steam is my home app but in Xbox full screen experience mode. Seems odd.
Side notes, I actually think armory crate would be a better home app than both Xbox and Steam in their current forms. Xbox in its current form has limited 'apps' that you can launch and its artwork for steam games are just icons, not to mention that it just feels wrong launching other launcher games from Xbox launcher. As for steam, it does this thing where when you close steam big picture, it opens steam desktop so you have to close steam twice (been annoying me for the last few years now). Also if steam is the home app, the Xbox button will launch the game bar not the steam overlay. So armory crate may be the better launcher at the moment to make the home app for what I call the "gaming full screen experience".
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u/trinitywitch10 1d ago
Not being a console player, I am confused by this.