Comment on The Plucky Squire recently came out, and used the Steam Deck to represent PC
needanke@feddit.org 13 hours agoWait, its installed by default? I assumed I had to install it, which would not be possible, because its immutable and there is no rsync flatpak (I think).
termain@programming.dev 11 hours ago
What do you mean immutable?
SeekPie@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
SteamOS is immutable, so you can’t install system-wide apps on there, only flatpaks, appimages etc.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 10 hours 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.
Damage@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
You don’t need to turn off anything, you can install whatever package you want, but they’ll be overwritten by some updates
SeekPie@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
(IIRC) the changes are reverted after each update so you’d have to re-install every app.
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 9 hours 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.