• warmaster@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Steam OS is not a rolling release. It’s version numbers make it clear, it’s a point release. It’s versioned.

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        15 hours ago

        They take a specific version of arch, then add packages/changes selectively.

        A little bird told me it’s quite a pain that arch updates so fast, because if they want to update package A they need to deal with a dependency hell due to everything having update on the meantime, and switching to Debian was even discussed still around the time OLED was released.

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          14 hours ago

          They take a specific version of arch, (…)

          Which? Which one?!!

          I believe they might take version numbers (for packages) from Fedora or somewhere else.

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            14 hours ago

            One “day”. Doesn’t need to be a numbered version. It’s there same as any other non immutable release in a way. Ubuntu 24.10 is different from one day to another, even with the same version number.

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        16 hours ago

        Try it. Open the terminal and try to do an update. You can’t, neither the system. Steam OS is image based, conceptually equal to Bazzite.

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        15 hours ago

        If you want to install up to date packages and make your own environment inside SteamOS you need to use Distrobox. It comes pre-installed.