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How does the Steam Deck handle other distros / recommendations? (feddit.cl)
submitted 1 day ago by A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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So, basically, I kinda don't like very much to have an immutable distro, there are things I don't really like about steam OS but the immutability makes it so if can't really change it, for starters, I kinda don't like at all dolphin, and would prefer to use nemo, but is my understanding that next time valve pushes an update, all it would revert.

So I was wondering what other options for distros there is, that are not immutable, that allows me to not loose any basic functionality is possible, things like gamescope, and how the keyboard works with the touchpads.

Advice would be appreciated.

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[–] Toribor@corndog.social 3 points 16 hours ago

Bazzite is immutable but uses rpm-ostree which means you can install basically any yum/dnf system packages and have them persist. It should be used sparingly but it's much more flexible than SteamOS because of it. I customize my own Bazzite-Gnome image to layer in a few packages but I'd consider that pretty advanced.