boot directly into desktop
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The best way would probably be disabling autologin. In desktop open terminal by clicking the activities button in the top left corner and typing "Terminal". Note: remove sudo from any of the below commands if working from recovery mode as user root.
If you haven't made a password yet, do so now by typing "passwd".
Then type:
sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
Scroll the file until you find these two lines
user-session=steamos
autologin-user=steam
And comment them out like this:
# user-session=steamos
# autologin-user=steam
Now when you reboot you'll see a login screen where you can do several things:
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To get to "desktop" account desktop Login: desktop; Password: the one created earlier;
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To get to "steam" account desktop (with access to regular Steam client) Login: steam; no password.
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To get to Big Picture Mode Choose "SteamOS" from the drop-down menu; Login: steam; no password
