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For anyone reading this that doesn't know, Decker is a program currently in development, which aims to work as a package restore helper, for when manually installed programs are wiped by a system update. Currently, an unstable testing bash script can be found at: https://github.com/steamdeck-linux/decker.
I am using a great tool called Babushka, which makes testing and running shell commands easy, and allows me to check whether the package has been installed, cached and registered correctly by Decker. Hopefully, with these many checks in place, Decker should become quite friendly towards beginners.
I have started porting Decker to Ruby, my native programming language. This makes development much easier, as Ruby is better equipped to do the string manipulations that I previously had to kludge together in Bash. However, Ruby is no where near as portable as Bash is, and, as it is not installed by default on the SteamDeck, I will be packaging the project into an AppImage.