SteamOS is easy to deal with if you stick to using Flatpak. I found out the hard way when installing yay that since their packages are a little behind, it wouldn’t compile. The problem was either pacman or one of it’s dependencies was out of date according to makepkg. So I tried to update them manually and broke the whole system. Plus SteamOS overrides changes to the root filesystem when it updates, which undos all my hard work tweaking the system, which I find infuriating.
Yeah the base OS seems pretty much centered around pretty fixed images etc for updates, but thankfully most of what I need can live happily in user-land either under the homedir or detachable storage
SteamOS is easy to deal with if you stick to using Flatpak. I found out the hard way when installing yay that since their packages are a little behind, it wouldn’t compile. The problem was either pacman or one of it’s dependencies was out of date according to makepkg. So I tried to update them manually and broke the whole system. Plus SteamOS overrides changes to the root filesystem when it updates, which undos all my hard work tweaking the system, which I find infuriating.
Yeah the base OS seems pretty much centered around pretty fixed images etc for updates, but thankfully most of what I need can live happily in user-land either under the homedir or detachable storage