Steam OS has some cool elements like the menu, the in-game side panels and the game mode/desktop dichotomy, but incremental rolling release is utterly deranged from my POV as an Arch user (btw).

[–] Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If stability is deranged then yes.

As someone having used Arch, stuff does break at times and Valve can't link a Wiki link with the fixes

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Say Plasma "breaks" - a wiki will not help fast enough.

I'm not trying to defend rolling release for a gaming console, but give me at least the option to decide for myself whether I'm ok with breakage or not. There is this kernelspace NT driver that I wanted to try, but I couldn't because pacman is locked.

[–] SpeakinTelnet@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago

I'm currently trying Fedora Kinoite and from the get go the hassle of getting a proper Firefox+codecs to watch online videos feels like a major step back.

Then you have the issue of installing software in flatpack (is: vscode, texmaker) that are either not fully working of need to have their access tweaked. Atomic distros appeal is to "just work" it doesn't seem like it does.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Steam OS isn't an incremental rolling release, right?