• SeekPie@lemm.ee
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      5 hours ago

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

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

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          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.