Aside from preinstalled Distrobox, Nixpkgs with nix-shell is also a very convenient source of almost anything software on SteamOS, especially in they’re CLI tools. The Determinate Systems installer also has a Deck specific installation profile.
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Maiq@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Love my deck. One thing I haven’t figures out is getting a gcc compiler. I would like to get pyenv working. Tried brew a while back. Couldn’t get it working. Kind of got side tracked gaming. Need to give it another shot.
Scio@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 21 hours ago
Love my deck … Kind of got side tracked gaming
You sound like me lol: Side tracked by the device’s primary purpose.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
SteamOS ships both podman and distrobox.
distrobox create --image registry.opensuse.org/opensuse/leap:16.0 --name opensuseto install openSUSE, for example, thendistrobox enter opensuseto use it. If you like rolling releases, install and then executeopensuse-migration-toolto upgrade to Tumbleweed or Slowroll.Maiq@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Ill have to check out podman and look into distrobox.It’s defiantly an option. Never used distrobox pr podman before. So used to the power of Arch, never even had to think about the software I want to use not being able to be installed in five years.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You can install an Arch image as well. Distrobox should work fine with these OCI images: github.com/archlinux/archlinux-docker?tab=readme-…