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.
It did for me when i ran beta which they warn about. Almost hosed it one time and that was the final straw.
It happens but it is more often the plugins themselves. I recently deactivated a few that were problematic in the last Steam client.
