Approaching the middle of 2026, I thought it might be interesting to check in with a handful of developers building software for the Steam Deck scene to see how things have gone, are going and might be for the future!
Most of these are good friends of mine, but there is one new face here as well. I asked them a few questions each about what the state of Steam Deck software looks like today.
- RetroDECK
- Decky Loader
- Junk Store
- Lutris
- Heroic Games Launcher
- Unifideck
^ all the projects I checked in with! So if you’re curious, this one isn’t exactly hard-hitting journalist, it is a nice light check-in with friends as to how the Steam Deck world is for them now!
Hope you enjoy it!
I wonder what people’s opinions are on the kernel drivers apparently still not being in mainline. That appears to severely limit the availability of other Linux variants. Personally, that’s one of the ecosystem problems that bothers me the most.