What's the most recent guide for installing mods on Steam Deck?

[ruby cipher]

Okay, what's the most up-to-date guide for installing mods on the Steam Deck? Different guides suggest different methods from what I'm seeing, and I don't want to go poking around in my Steam Deck files for the first time without knowing wtf I'm doing in the event some of them are now obsolete and I end up ruining something as a result... Maybe that's my paranoia talking though.

For context, I've gone back and forth a bit on deciding what mods to install, but have currently decided on 'All in Jest' (for certain) and 'Extra Credit' (maybe), so I also need Steammodded and Lovely.

Currently I'm tempted towards just waiting for official modding support / workshop / modding API or whatever, but that's likely a long time away still, given Thunk's working on the update and all. And considering I bought my steam deck mainly for Balatro, knowing it'd open up for playing handheld with mods; skipping out of this just because it's complicated feels like invalidating my entire investment.

[ruby cipher]

What's the most recent guide for installing mods on Steam Deck?

[drowsy basin]

Using Steammodded mods or Lovely, it's been fairly simple to drop the files into the equivalent folder under the steam prefix. So .../steamapps/compatdata/2379780/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/... for any files that need to go into your C:\Users folder, and the local installation folder for any files that need to go there. Is there a particular mod you're having issues with?

[ruby cipher]

So I 'only' need Steammodded and Lovely? No other separate program? Also, do I just use Desktop Mode, browse the modding witi and download them from their github pages? One recent guide is going over Appimagelauncher, editing files, etc. Is this step needed for Steammodded?

[drowsy basin]

Different mods have different requirements, Lovely just requires you to drop a DLL into the Balatro folder and that works fine on the Steam Deck: https://github.com/ethangreen-dev/lovely-injector?tab=readme-ov-file#windows--proton--wine

Then Steammodded is just added as a Lovely mod: https://github.com/Steamodded/smods/wiki/Installing-Steamodded-linux#step-2-installing-steamodded

That lets you handle anything with either of those requirements.

Any mod that requires Steammodded is just extracted into the same mods folder Steammodded is

And yes, you would have to do this in desktop mode.

[ruby cipher]

Ok, that sounds way easier than I imagined!
Only thing now is I'm trying to figure out how to get the on-screen keyboard to show up on desktop mode. I've installed and opened Firefox on it, but so far I've only been able to click on the address bar.

[ruby cipher]

Figured out the keyboard (Steam+X) and downloaded Lovely and Steammodded, though haven't done anything else yet. Too sleepy, will continue tomorrow.