So, basically, I kinda don’t like very much to have an immutable distro, there are things I don’t really like about steam OS but the immutability makes it so if can’t really change it, for starters, I kinda don’t like at all dolphin, and would prefer to use nemo, but is my understanding that next time valve pushes an update, all it would revert.
So I was wondering what other options for distros there is, that are not immutable, that allows me to not loose any basic functionality is possible, things like gamescope, and how the keyboard works with the touchpads.
Advice would be appreciated.
You’ve kinda got it wrong a bit.
Any usermode changes you make don’t get reverted. Boot into Desktop mode, install whatever you want, and those stay.
Underlying OS changes won’t impact that because usermode is seperated from the OS space.
If you really don’t want a immutable distro, you could use Nobara. It’s based on Fedora and lets you install/remove packages as needed. It is optimized for gaming and has a Steam Deck version available.
That being said, I think Bazzite would be a better option. It is immutable like SteamOS, but it also bundles a bunch of other options like Flatpak, Homebrew, and Distrobox.
I’ve used it personally yet, but I’ve seen CachyOS work well
Why everyone and their mom is suddenly obsessed with cachyos and omarchy??
Please don’t compare cachyos to omarchy. Cachyos is well-designed and has lovely devs, omarchy is a horrible pile of steaming shit
Bazzite is immutable but uses rpm-ostree which means you can install basically any yum/dnf system packages and have them persist. It should be used sparingly but it’s much more flexible than SteamOS because of it. I customize my own Bazzite-Gnome image to layer in a few packages but I’d consider that pretty advanced.
