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Baahb ,

Is steam OS not just flavored Debian?

furzegulo ,

it’s arch based, though immutable as i understand

nous ,

The core is immutable, but it comes with flatpak which writes to a writeable location so you can install and update applications independently of OS updates without having them wiped after an upgrade. You can also install and use tools like distrobox to give you container environments that you can install and change as much as you like as well.

xylogx OP ,

Not anymore according to Wikipedia:

SteamOS, version 3.0. This new version is based upon Arch Linux with the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment

Baahb ,

Iff all the apps you’d want are already containerized into the system used in steamos why not. As furzegulo pointed out, it’s immutable

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

TerkErJerbs ,

It’s kinda janky but I’ve been running HoloISO on my gaming rig for over a year and it was mostly pain free. To be clear I don’t use that system for much more than gaming but recreational browsing and music/movies etc as well. It’s fine.

Recent decisions by the maintainer to make that distro immutable have confused me and I’m thinking about switching to Endeavor. I was historically a Debian user. This was my first experience with Arch (btw) so I’d kinda like to get to know it a bit before we introduce thicker weeds and deeper rabbit holes thanks very much bye.

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

redcalcium ,

Should be totally doable, when I’m retired and all I do is playing games all day. Can still open a web browser from steam overlay to check emails and stuff.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod ,
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80% of my work is on websites, and the other 20% is in a text editor or terminal. As long as I could map my old keyboard shortcuts I don't see why not.

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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

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