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?
There’s not really anything they can do to prevent it from breaking on beta update channel. Stable is generally safe from decky breaking.
I’m usually on SteamOS/Steam client beta update as well. If an update breaks Decky and I need the plugins for a game I’m playing, I’ll sometimes switch just the Steam Client back to stable, which will usually fix things. That can cause it’s own issues as well (having a mismatch between beta SteamOS and stable Steam client), but it’s generally worked fine when I tried it.
I wonder if the reinstall of Decky Loader can be automated in a hidden way, that is triggered with a Steam update. This would at least make it almost look seamless, provided the plugins themselves doesn’t break.
In my experience, that probably wouldn’t work most of the time. There has been a time or two when Decky got wiped by a Steam update and immediate reinstalling fixed it, but the vast majority of the time it’s just broken for that version of Steam, and won’t work again unless you downgrade steam or the Decky devs release a new update.
Ah man, my last hope just disappeared. Valve needs to make the client more configurable (including font size, my biggest issue) and add an API for extensions that work on PC as well as the handheld. Well thanks for sharing your experience, I guess with Steam Beta I will have to pass on Decky Loader again.