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    5 months ago

    They can if you install Linux on it and run a switch emu.

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      5 months ago

      It already comes with Linux installed, and an emulator can be setup with five button presses and thirty seconds of waiting.
      The base system is setup as immutable, but /home isn’t, so aur isn’t available out of the box, but flatpacks are for example

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        5 months ago

        That’s pretty rad. I don’t have one to know the nuance.

        I heard it was possible to install bazzite on the SteamDecks

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          SteamOS is an Arch Linux, basically, with some stuff pre-installed. The only big difference is that it’s installed in immutable mode, but even that is not a big deal

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            Thanks for the clarification. I really want to pick one up. Might wait a bit for a SD2 I’m sure is a year or two out.