Comment by GardenLetter27

3 months ago

Nix support is built-in to SteamOS already btw, I used that to set up Ship of Harkinian for example.

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s0l1dsnak3123  3 months ago

Could you elaborate? Does steamOS ship the nix binary & mountpoints?

  • GardenLetter27  3 months ago

    I meant they have set up the Nix directory so you can write to it without having to mess around with bind mounts, overlayfs, etc. because the system is normally read-only.

    So all you have to do is install Nix as a user.

  • MrDrMcCoy  3 months ago

    IIRC, the nix package manager can run entirely user-level on any distro. It doesn't ship on the Deck, but it's the same process there as anywhere else.