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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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I guess this would be with Arch, but technically it's steamOS beta

Probably will need console commands, but if there's flatpak software with this ability, that would be sweet.

Any suggestions?

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 2 months ago

SteamOS is immutable. While you can unlock the root filesystem pacman needs a little bit more setup to work. And updating with pacman might break stuff. And everything you do with it will be lost on a proper SteamOS update.