Comment on The Plucky Squire recently came out, and used the Steam Deck to represent PC

• Sas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can just install a distro of your choice on it that might or might not be immutable if you want. In the end, yes, it is a PC

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• termain@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What do you mean immutable?

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  • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    SteamOS is immutable, so you can’t install system-wide apps on there, only flatpaks, appimages etc.

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You can install system wide apps by turning off immutabe mode and configurating something. I might be talking out my ass though cause I have done this but I don’t remember if it persisted across updates.

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      • LucidNightmare@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You can for sure! It’s just I wouldn’t go around recommending that to just any person because they then might get a little crazy with the freedom, brick their Steam deck install, and then try to say that the Deck is a POS.

        Bad word of mouth is always a lot more damaging than spreading the good word that it’s a solid system.

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      • Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You don’t need to turn off anything, you can install whatever package you want, but they’ll be overwritten by some updates

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      • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        (IIRC) the changes are reverted after each update so you’d have to re-install every app.

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