SteamOS as your daily driver?

xylogx@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 107 points –

Is this a totally crazy idea? Talk me down before I hurt myself.

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Is steam OS not just flavored Debian?

Not anymore according to Wikipedia:

SteamOS, version 3.0. This new version is based upon Arch Linux with the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment

Iff all the apps you'd want are already containerized into the system used in steamos why not. As furzegulo pointed out, it's immutable

it's arch based, though immutable as i understand

The core is immutable, but it comes with flatpak which writes to a writeable location so you can install and update applications independently of OS updates without having them wiped after an upgrade. You can also install and use tools like distrobox to give you container environments that you can install and change as much as you like as well.

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