Pretty exciting times ahead as Valve might finally release SteamOS to more hardware. This amount of Linux desktop coverage would be unimaginable few years ago.

  • Giloron@programming.dev
    71·
    5 days ago

    Yes, but it is also set up as an OS image.

    I think there is a process for persistence, but without some effort, changes are lost for OS updates.

    • skimm@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      Changes aren’t lost on update. If you enable a sudo user/password, and make changes to the system that way, those changes can be lost when applying the new system image.

      Its an immutable Arch-based distro and you have full readwrite to your home directory and all config, settings, and files within persist.

      • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Even the stuff in the “immutable” section isn’t necessarily wiped, it’s more that there is a strong chance changes may be overwritten. I’d definitely make no guarantees to anything stored on the immutable sections of SteamOS.