dont update your steam deck or sell it like im doing mine!1(this post was a tad dramatic)

[THE GRIND IS REAL]

valve updates removes emudeck an reverting bios does not fix this atall so well done valve removing a customers data forcefully is bs this has solidified my choice that my rog ally is still king an never bother with a steam deck again youve lost a future customer well done.

This post was to do with mainly plugins being removed every update which is an annoyance to reinstall an I was unable to locate some file which are still on device

[TheKrapfcat]

that is factually untrue afaik, Valve never removes apps installed through flatpak, only stuff installed using pacman get delete since SteamOS is an immutable distro, so the answer is no
Valve won't uninstall anything and their stance is that the Deck is a PC and you can do whatever you want with it

[THE GRIND IS REAL]

So removing decky plugins and urls every update isn't removing installed hardware because they have to be downloaded again through decky plugin launcher? Which has happened every update since owning this device just sadly this update removed the most this time and normally with each update I can boot into my previous bios an have all plugins ,urls and directory links back with the update on a seperate bios which wasn't the case with this update since after reverting to bios previous b i only half my steam deck themes set up, urls are missing so apps are missing thumbnail images an I have to reinstall all my decky plugins for example fantastic .
What I don't get is why haven't valve made the firmware updates optional instead of forced ,like my rog ally that has bios updates as optional an gpu drivers are optional too.

I actually like the steam deck I just hate the fact that everytime I get it all set up to how I want it ,all it takes is to go online risk an unwanted update that leaves me haveing to reinstall things as simple as plugins.
My question probably should be why am I suppose to be OK with anything being removed no matter how small it is when my deck recieves an update because like you said they do remove some things

[TheKrapfcat]

Originally posted by THE GRIND IS REAL:

So removing decky plugins and urls every update isn't removing installed hardware because they have to be downloaded again through decky plugin launcher? Which has happened every update since owning this device just sadly this update removed the most this time and normally with each update I can boot into my previous bios an have all plugins ,urls and directory links back with the update on a seperate bios which wasn't the case with this update since after reverting to bios previous b i only half my steam deck themes set up, urls are missing so apps are missing thumbnail images an I have to reinstall all my decky plugins for example fantastic .
What I don't get is why haven't valve made the firmware updates optional instead of forced ,like my rog ally that has bios updates as optional an gpu drivers are optional too.

I actually like the steam deck I just hate the fact that everytime I get it all set up to how I want it ,all it takes is to go online risk an unwanted update that leaves me haveing to reinstall things as simple as plugins

Decky is not installed as normal flatpak, the way Decky works is very different, it's more of a hack tbh, and even when it "disappears" it is usually still there if you look for the "homebrew" folder in the home directory, so you could find a way to save or restore your configs

[THE GRIND IS REAL]

Thankyou for your reply I am aware that I am able to load up decky loader an emu deck to correct urls an reinstall plugins by using the desktop option admittedly i panicked when i was unable to find my urls for emu deck since the whole yuzu stuff lol its just a small annoyance reinstalling plugins tbh that I wish valve would fix . I'm unaware if cryo utilities is affected by the updates

Don't get wrong me wrong I respect valve for creating the deck an getting devs to come back to there games to optimise them to run on the deck better even still supporting the device with constant updates it's just this small QOL improvement they have yet to implement that gets me tbh I should probably correct my first comment to being im probably being a tad bit too dramatic lol