Steam Deck Plugin Brings PS5 and Xbox Series UI to Handheld Gaming
Since Valve launched the Steam Deck, there has been no question that its user-friendly UI has been one of its biggest selling points, with its…
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| Corroborationleads | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 41% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
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| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshness | 0.20 | 0.41 | +0.081 25% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
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What happened
Since Valve launched the Steam Deck, there has been no question that its user-friendly UI has been one of its biggest selling points, with its openness and publisher-agnostic approach coming in a close second. A new Decky Loader plugin makes use of this openness to implement both the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S home screen user interface layouts on the Steam Deck, effectively replacing the stock Steam UI. The projects are available for free on GitHub (as decky-ps5-dashboard and decky-xbox-dashboard, both from the same user.
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