The core is immutable, but it comes with flatpak which writes to a writeable location so you can install and update applications independently of OS updates without having them wiped after an upgrade. You can also install and use tools like distrobox to give you container environments that you can install and change as much as you like as well.
Is steam OS not just flavored Debian?
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it’s arch based, though immutable as i understand
The core is immutable, but it comes with flatpak which writes to a writeable location so you can install and update applications independently of OS updates without having them wiped after an upgrade. You can also install and use tools like distrobox to give you container environments that you can install and change as much as you like as well.
Not anymore according to Wikipedia:
SteamOS, version 3.0. This new version is based upon Arch Linux with the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment
Iff all the apps you’d want are already containerized into the system used in steamos why not. As furzegulo pointed out, it’s immutable