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What are immutable distros, and are they the future of Linux? (tilvids.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (5 children)

It's a computer and he is a linux user, nothing is stopping him. Also, you can use distrobox to run applications in containers

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Well running Portmaster or Gnome in a container kind of defeats the purpose of those things since they need to run on the System to be effective.

    What would be really neat is if there was a Way to get the SteamOS features like the menu and On screen Keyboard in Regular Arch Linux.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    I mean that steam os is built for casual users that want to play. For using it as a desktop os, it's not so great, exactly because it's immutable and it is configured weirdly

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Interesting choice of DE for casual users on a touch screen device, I kind of get that they're not going to be using Desktop mode so much but honestly they should've used something like Gnome that isn't going to be clunky and frustrating on a touch screen without a Mouse and Keyboard.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    My guess is that kde is more "familiar" for gamers coming from windows... It looks more like windows than gnome

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Fair enough, though Gnome does resemble mobile interfaces like the ones in Android (at least I think so, I'm going to get grilled for this aren't I?), which would make more sense in what essentially is a mobile device that should have mobile touch based navigation due to lack of physical keyboard and a proper mouse.

    KDE may look like windows but it also functions way worse than Windows on a touch screen device, at least most windows devices have a keyboard and mouse but the SteamDeck requires you to use an external one, which may or may not be available.

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