Comment by necovek
2 months ago
I would agree on most points regarding SteamOS except for package manager: there are really two on the system — base one and Steam itself.
Users generally only care about the latter.
2 months ago
I would agree on most points regarding SteamOS except for package manager: there are really two on the system — base one and Steam itself.
Users generally only care about the latter.
Linux Desktop routinely has multiple package managers (for the better or worse): be it flatpak, pip, npm, nix... but it's still Linux Desktop. Just like you don't need to have the same libc to be a Linux Desktop.
At least some of the dedicated ones also want to run epic games or others through heroic, but that's only a little more Linux on top of steam yeah
I think it is fixed now, but for a while you couldn't even use the touchpads on the desktop without steam running.