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    possiblylinux127 ,

    …except not in the least

    mesamunefire , (edited )

    Looks like there has been some significant changes from 2022. But it’s arch based…and the expert install is the same. So I’m not sure what you mean. It’s just Linux.

    Either way, I’m glad valve put so much effort into Debain/Arch + Proton. Amazing what they can do + the community behind wine.

    possiblylinux127 ,

    They are technically both Arch based but outside of that they are fairly different.

    So maybe not totally different bit they are not close to being the same either

    Unyieldingly ,

    When is Valve going to release SteamOS Desktop? I would use it for many things.

    kylian0087 ,

    Their used to be a steamos version made for the desktop. I believe it got abandoned a few years ago.

    TheRedSpade ,

    The old version, based on Debian and made with Steam Machines in mind, was abandoned. SteamOS 3, based on Arch and made with the Deck in mind, is still meant to have an official generic release at some point afaik.

    tsl ,
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    So, I’ve been using my Steam Deck as my main driver for more than a year. While there are options to install software without having those removed when you update (steamos-btrfs, nix, distrobox), you can just boot another OS from an external drive.

    I have WinesapOS on a SD card so I can use SteamOS without restrictions (and there are other options like Bazzite that others have mentioned).

    So far, I have not found anything that was not possible on my machine, because, well, it’s a computer with an Arch distro on it!

    Something that I read elsewhere, not in this thread, is about limits when it comes to work with external peripherals. Now, I can tell you that I use an external Bluray player, printer, scanner, drawing tablet, floppy drive reader (to make images of floppies), azeron pad, programming esp32, work with sound with a Creative GC7, and I’m not sure I’m missing anything. My SteamOS is great!

    erwan ,

    On a docked Steam Deck, yes sure. It’s a perfectly good desktop replacement.

    On any other PC, I would recommend a traditional distribution over Steam OS.

    mr_pip ,
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    never understood why steamos made sense aside from a steamdeck… just start steam in autostart and enable big picture

    Railcar8095 ,

    Well, AFAIK it’s impossible/very damn hard to print on steam OS, and anything that can’t be a flatpak or a container/appimage/binary… Is not going to stay.

    If you say “use the deck as main computer”, I think for the most part you will be fine, but when you’re not you’ll be in a world of pain

    ProdigalFrog , (edited )

    Does distrobox alleviate those issues?

    Railcar8095 ,

    Not all. Cups doesn’t seem to work in distro box and even if it does printer drivers won’t.

    Others like tailscale need (last time I checked) 3rd party scripts to even install, so possible but not trivial without research.

    For context, I use Bazzite for home/work/gaming and there are a few use cases I couldn’t make work without installing packages.

    ProdigalFrog ,

    Appreciate the info! I’ve been interested in immutable distros, but that would be a pretty big issue for my main PC.

    Railcar8095 ,

    Just one thing, SteamOS is specially tricky for this as it doesn’t support layers.

    Bazzite is also immutable but thanks to the layers I got the main things fixed, and as it’s based on silverblue there are a lot more resources to check

    Xatolos ,
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    Not the hardest. Worst case, install Boxes from Discovery app and spin a VM of a different OS. Make it your “main” OS for apps that won’t work on SteamOS.

    Secret300 ,

    I would recommend distrobix instead of a full VM. Boxbuddy is a nice gui app for distrobox

    DeadMartyr ,

    I use it as daily driver. I have a JSAUX dock with ssd for home, I unplug and bring it with me to university and use it with a bluetooth folding keyboard and house I got for <50$.

    It does everything I need. I’m a CS Major and “Boxes” works well for any sandbox environment I need.

    If you’re super technical, some thing in SteamOS can limit you, like how system files are on their own partition that gets wiped every update. But it’s perfectly doable

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