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It's been years since I tried out Decky Loader on the Steam Deck. I love what it brings and enables. Unfortunately I had to reinstall the it every time Steam got an update; which is very often, because I use Steam Beta. I am thinking of installing it again, but it was annoying in the past.

Did this issue got resolved or would I need to use stable Steam if this bothers me?

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm mainly interested into showing the ProtonDB rating. But I don't want to use Stable Steam.

[–] Maiq@piefed.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Just a heads up, LSFG-VK combined with PowerTools can give you a major FPS boost in a bunch of games making them enjoyable not just playable. IMO must haves on the deck.

[–] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I’ve had issues with that plugin before, during 3.6 I want to say.

Up to you.

If an update to SteamOS does bork your system, you can always roll back.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1b71-edf2-eb6d-2bb3#menu

Otherwise, happy tinkering. I recommend MicroSDeck if you have multiple SD cards you swap between too.

And Decky Localsend, so you can transfer files without going out of game mode.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And Decky Localsend, so you can transfer files without going out of game mode.

I actually have a different way of handling file transfer. I use my filemanager with SSH to directly access files like they would be local.

As for an update to bork the system, I'm not that concerned about it. I am one of the pre-orders and it never borked for me. But good to know that in such a case there is a solution. My only concern with Decky Loader is just that it breaks with frequent updates. It's unfortunate.

[–] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago

9 times out of ten rerunning the installer and selecting repair for Decky fixes it.

The other time it broke was due to SteamGrid crashing whenever I would hover over the Decky icon after hitting thr QAM.