There are a lot of great decky plugins, but which one specifically is the most important to you?
Shameless plug but I just re-released my Volume Mixer plugin to the store. It allows you to control the volume of games, programs, and connected Bluetooth sources like phones. I use it all the time since I usually have a podcast or stream going on my phone while playing a game
How does deck + phone work? Your phone uses the speakers on the deck for playback?
Yup! The Steam Deck (or Linux really) lets you use it as a Bluetooth speaker. So I connect my phone to the Deck and my AirPods to the deck and can listen to anything that’s playing through my phone and the deck through my headphones.
Holy heck gonna have to give this a look.
I really enjoy How Long to Beat. It’s nice getting to know beforehand if I’m about to open a 10h casual game or a 120h massive undertaking, specially given the portable nature of the Deck.
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I used to really enjoy Vibrant Deck, but it doesn’t play nice with the night light feature. Now I’m using the pre-release of SteamOS 3.5, and there’s a native vibrancy slider that works.
Still, glad the developer launched the plugin and allowed us to enjoy better colors for a long while before Valve did it themselves.
Mine is vibrantdeck. It improved the image quality quite significantly. I think the option is now built in, but I don’t bother.
My personal favorite is Pause Games. Not only does it fix sound issues with sleep in most games, but it allows me to run multiple games at once and swap between them without it hurting performance/battery.
Hadn’t heard of this before, does it affect standby time at all?
Nope, deck sleeps like normal, just with fewer sleep related issues.
Will have to install it
I’ve been playing Persona 5 and it’s such a pain when I get the audio crackling in the middle of a palace where I can’t save all the time to reboot
Probably AutoFlatpaks so that updating all my Flatpaks is automatic and doesn’t require switching to desktop mode.
