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What distro to choose in parallel to steamos (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello community!

I come to you for advice. Using an m1 macbook air since 2020, I installed popos on my old 2013 macbook pro and I was quite happy with it but... I bought a steamdeck two weeks ago and exploring its desktop mode made me reconsider some choices. Using distros based on different systems, with different commands, desktop environment, etc. gets a little confusing for someone like me, who doesn't use linux as my main machine. Do you have any advice for me? From what I understand, steamos is debian-based while popos is ubuntu-based: is that the biggest part of how a distribution works, ie commands, etc.? Good ui/ux is important for me so i should maybe use nitrux or deepin, that are debian-based, or is it a bad idea to choose a less common distro for a amateur like me?

Thanks in advance, I'm a bit lost.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

~~Nope~~ ~~steamOS is based on debian~~

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That link is for steamOS 2, the steam deck runs on 3.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Whoops, i was wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's the old version, steamOS v2. That ran on the failed steam machine. steamOS v3 is arch based. It uses pacman, pacman keyring, has arch packages, etc. Debian uses apt. The steamdeck is using an immutable variant of arch linux with it's own mirrors of the arch repositories.

I implore you, try using apt on your steamdeck. It will not work. Try installing a .deb, it will not work. It is not debian based. What you have linked to is the old, steamOS operating system used in their initial console trial, which failed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Understanding that 1. steamos is arch-based and 2. it means it manages packages differently from debian-based distros just cleared up a lot of confusion