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Setup Nixpkgs. Learn Home-Manager. If anything doesn’t exist on Flathub, install it through Nixpkgs instead of disabling immutability and resorting to pacman. And for temporary tinkering, use nix-shell.

The determinate.systems Nix installer directly supports the Steam Deck.

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RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Never used Nixpkgs, but isn’t it a bit more advanced and not really for beginners?

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- Scio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Comparatively, yes. But trying to install apps or programs on the Deck if they are not on Flathub is quite a common use-case, I find. And it’s a lot less stable or frustrating than temporarily installing packages through Pacman!
  
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  - xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    trying to install apps or programs on the Deck if they are not on Flathub is quite a common use-case
    
    an average user should not have this problem on the first week
    
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noxy@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
as a nixos user… dear sweet Dog, no, please no

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