@ily9718
I live in a country where the deck is not available, but I was recently visiting the US and wanted to get one, and to order one you must need an American account which requires an American credit card. The way I got past that is I sent my American friend 400 (+taxes) dollars in gift cards and she ordered it for me. I now have a deck and I absolutely love this thing, I hope this could maybe help anyone who's trying to buy a deck outside valve's official distribution.
@eddyhg8098
It's actually insane how user friendly this is! Props to the Decky devs and the plugins devs too
@Alex-nk8bw
I mentioned this elsewhere already: reducing CPU clocks is a huge deal! It has very little impact on performance, as most modern games are rather GPU limited. But you can lower your temperatures down from >80° to around 65-70°C. This also means that the fan will stay silent, and it even works with performance hungry games like Cyberpunk 2077 (2000-2400 MHz works well).
@Later_Nerd
Most people recommend 130 Saturation on VibrantDeck from what I've read. I played with it and also landed on 130 being the sweetspot. I really can't go without it. Had to factory reset my steam deck when I upgraded the SSD and was missing that saturation boost. It definitely does give it a look that's a bit more similar to an OLED. Obvious not exactly, but a nice and notable change that just makes everything pop a bit more.
@CrystallineLore
Just a note, Decky is apparently having a lot of problems with Steam Beta updates (two times in a row now) so it's best if you keep to stable SteamOS if you plan on using this.
@thesuperzfamilyvlog6607
I love the added saturation. I agree the color was a bit dull, but this brings the screen alive.
@RE4PER
This completely transformed the UI of my Steam Deck and I couldn't be happier! I made pretty much my own theme with more modern features such as rounded corners, gradients on the top and bottom bars, an elegant font, and custom colors for icons and menus.
@McLoovviinn
I love how Steam Deck is open for community, look like everybody is contributing for a better product, like steam in the future can get this plugins and put as native in future releases, it is really good
@Crash_endo
You almost gave me a heart attack when you started to point with the screwdriver! I was like: don't scratch it, please! XD
@Dudewitbow
I think a killer feature for powertools would be a subscription to game specific configs. If users can essentially optimize battery life without performance loss over several games just by clicking a subscribe to some community pool of configs per game basis, that would be an awesome feature.
@MyGreatCreation
Dude yes I need more videos like this. It's probably just because I can follow along and it's not just like a benchmarking or testing video it's like a tutorial that I can just vibe with. I love it.
@versusforward
Been using decky loader for a few weeks now - the saturation plugin alone is by itself worth installing. Makes the deck feel nearly OLED-esque when cranked up to 140% or so. Games just pop now.
@CatTheRoundEarther
Two that I love are "Animation Changer" and "Pause Games" Animation changer is kind of boring it just allows you to change the loading intro, I have the matrix one. But Pause Games is interesting it allows you to put games to sleep, say you have two games open or even a game and a browser, you can have the game sleep whenever the other is focused, they're still taking up ram but not CPU/GPU usage. Also this is why I love the steam deck and Valve's take on selling hardware, I didn't have to jailbreak my deck in order to do any of this and now I can customize it to an insane amount.
@icky_thump
I've been curious to add plugins for a while, but always been put off about the requirement to enable Dev mode. With this method bypassing that entirely, i'm sold. Gonna give this a go tonight.
@daviddamasceno6063
This something I miss A LOT on modern consoles. Customize it, tinker it make it your own. I remember downloading custom themes for my PS3, made by the community. PS4 also allowed many different themes and colors. PS5 has none of that, zero customization. Same for the Switch. It's so sad.
@terryterryd
This is the best showcase I have seen on Decky. Cheers ETA
@alfwaibel4773
Thank you sooooo much, @ETA Prime! - I saw this Decky Loader thing in another vid a few days ago, but this one was the version with manual install, which scared me a bit. With this script, all works totally fine, and I moved one more step to the personalization of MY Deck. Installed vibrantDeck, Bluetooth, CSS Loader and Power Tools. I chose the "Obsidian" theme background, which looks, together with the vibrantDeck setting on 140 saturation, absolutely incredible. I always hated the so called black background of handheld consoles, which is always some kind of dark grey, and looked washed out. Now, with this popping colors and the better saturation, the Deck screen looks like an OLED screen. With so much saturation, it´s even possible to turn down brightness much more, which could help in battery life - maybe not much, but some. Games look incredible!!!
@Smogmopster
I love power tools. It really helped with my performance on a lot of emulator games. I was able to get Jetset radio to not lag out when there was large crowd. Definitely worth grabbing that one!
@theprocraftinator9814
I just wanted to thank you for this step by step video of how to install decky loader. Yours was the 3rd video I looked at on how to install that. I others were had to follow making you copy and paste instead of just clicking the download button. I just got my Steam deck today so I was not sure on how to copy and paste. Thank you for making it so easy to follow along with you.
@emerson-biggons7078