This, was a busy year. Silksong very much carried my Steam Deck usage.

I believe Steam Deck officially supports only Micro SD cards. I used one for about six months and had no issues.

Same here. It started happening after SteamOS 3.7 update. People say Decky Recorder plugin from Decky Loader works well, but I didn’t bother to try myself.

Doesn’t SteamOS satisfy that requirement? What do you dislike about it?

Steam Deck is just a computer. You can install any other Linux distro. Or Windows, if you are into that. I wouldn’t recommend anything other than SteamOS, though.

That’s very unfortunate. However, I’d like mention a few things about attempting a self-repair:

• You don’t need a heat gun to disassemble it. A simple Philips head screwdriver will do.
• Batteries are dangerous regardless of their charge. You should be careful handling them even when they are fully discharged.

While SteamOS is open-source and everyone can build one for themselves, it is only officially supported on Steam Deck. They promised to release a generic version of it targeting more devices in the past, and this post hints that that day is closer.