Comment on SteamOS updates and Decky [Question]
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
If you’re on steamOS beta/steam client beta, you have to also be on the pre release version of decky (you can select this when running the decky installer).
Even then, new updates to the deck/client can break decky and extensions. Decky will usually be updated to fix any broken updates within a day or so, but plugins can be broken much longer before they get an update. You’ll often find that you have to uninstall a specific plugin for a couple weeks.
Anyways if you want decky to work pretty smoothly, I’d suggest sticking to stable. If you don’t mind some troubleshooting and brief down periods, you can make it work on beta. I’d recommend getting on the Steam Deck Homebrew discord server so that whenever something breaks you can easily find out why and what you need to do about it.
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I’m on stable version of SteamOS and I assume stable version of Decky. It happened after updating SteamOS. Reading here and there, I’ll just need to wait this out.
Thank you for the discord server but I’m a bit bummed out that they force verification by phone number. I’m very cautious and suspicious about that kind of stuff. I joined it but won’t be chatting, I suppose.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
That’s fair. I’m surprised you’re still having crashes on stable though, it might be worth updating to pre-release and see if that fixes it.
There were several plugins that broke awhile back with Steam client changes, I know at least SteamGridDB, MagicBlack, Brightness Bar all broke, and I think one about managing airpods broke too. I know SteamGridDB is working again, but I haven’t gotten around to reinstalling the other ones yet. The SteamGridDB fix specifically required a decky update and not an update to the plugin to fix, so hopefully the other plugins are all fixed on the pre-release build of decky as well.