I just use a VPN server from my own country, which is annoying.

Then switch back to elsewhere when I’m not here.

One day you might have time!!!

Thank you! I’m glad there is this strong core group of projects and devs who both support and love the Steam Deck, so long after release!

If you’re curious to hear more from the teams, I’ve interviewed all except Unifideck (some many times!) over the last few years. You can find those by filtering with my author link on the site, or with this tag:

https://gardinerbryant.com/tag/developer-interview/

I’ve been using tmdb out of spite since they brought this shitty change in. Less reviews, but I can be the change I want to see, and submit reviews here myself

https://www.themoviedb.org/

If you ever run into an issue (you won’t now though, that’s for sure), feel free to message me on here. I’m always happy to help!

Yep, totally fine and safe :)

No glaring issues!

You might have to reinstall a plugin, but I’ve only seen that issue literally once. It only happens if that plugin is dependent on being on the beta channel.

Once you switch back to stable, just restart your Steam Deck and it’ll be good to go!

No data loss or anything awful. But if it helps, I’ll check in with my friend on Decky and get his confirmation before you do :)

Here’s my tip (being friends with the Decky team, and having reported on them/interviewed them for a long time now!)

When you install Decky, stay on the stable branch.

When there is a update for the Steam Deck, wait a few hours until Decky have their update, install that first.

Every single complaint about Decky is totally fixed with these two dead-simple actions.

Then grab SteamGridDB and change all your game art (that’s my fav plugin!)