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If its just a gaming PC you really don’t need much outside of the discover store, steam, and a web browser so its fine and probably just a safe move especially if its a shared PC.
Its only really annoying if your gaming rig is your main rig too.
Not quite. I’ve run into a gaming case where immutability becomes a problem: Syncthing.
If you want to synchronize emulator saves between devices then Syncthing is great at that, but it takes a lot to get around the immutability without relying on unmaintained flatpaks (aka Syncthing-gtk). At least not on Steam Deck, which doesn’t have Syncthing baked into the main distro
I just install the service via brew and use syncthingy for gui 🤷♀️ one command, brew install syncthing, one click to install syncthingy. You could also run the podman service for it if you want more protection
Syncthingy is just a dashboard. It doesn’t have the service packaged in, you have to set it up separately as a systemd service if it isn’t already included in your distro, which will get rewritten by SteamOS
Maybe this is true for SteamOS, but I am mostly was replying about “great at that, but it takes a lot to get around the immutability without relying on unmaintained flatpaks”.
I use immutable Distro, there is maintained syncthing available as Flatpak, and i did not experienced any problems related to using immutable distribution with syncthing specifically, so eh.
If its just a gaming PC you really don’t need much outside of the discover store, steam, and a web browser so its fine and probably just a safe move especially if its a shared PC.
Its only really annoying if your gaming rig is your main rig too.
Not quite. I’ve run into a gaming case where immutability becomes a problem: Syncthing.
If you want to synchronize emulator saves between devices then Syncthing is great at that, but it takes a lot to get around the immutability without relying on unmaintained flatpaks (aka Syncthing-gtk). At least not on Steam Deck, which doesn’t have Syncthing baked into the main distro
I just install the service via brew and use syncthingy for gui 🤷♀️ one command, brew install syncthing, one click to install syncthingy. You could also run the podman service for it if you want more protection
Brew is native on bazzite
Wait, what issues? I have it running on my Steam Deck with Bazzite and my PC with Aurora. I didn’t have any issues.
Bazzite probably has Syncthing baked into the distro, like Nobara does. That is not the case with SteamOS, so it gets wiped with each OS update
No idea what syncthing is, are there issues with the brew version? Looks pretty straight forward.
Setup the headless syncthing container it works great.
Have you tried Distrobox?
https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.zocker_160.SyncThingy, this one has separate support for Steamos
Syncthingy is just a dashboard. It doesn’t have the service packaged in, you have to set it up separately as a systemd service if it isn’t already included in your distro, which will get rewritten by SteamOS
Maybe this is true for SteamOS, but I am mostly was replying about “great at that, but it takes a lot to get around the immutability without relying on unmaintained flatpaks”. I use immutable Distro, there is maintained syncthing available as Flatpak, and i did not experienced any problems related to using immutable distribution with syncthing specifically, so eh.
If Syncthing is working on your immutable distro, it’s probably packaged with the distro withiut you being aware of it