Julian to Steam [email protected]English • 1 year agoSteamOS 3.5 will have a /nix directorygithub.commessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareKerblinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoDoes this mean they switch to NixOs? I was under the Impression that SteamOs was an arch distro turned immutable.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year agoyou can inţall nix package manager in every distro, maybe they did that, still arch but with nix pre-installed
minus-squareTheOneCurlylinkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoBased on the link it appears to be for a package manager. Possibly preparing for supporting additional user packages outside of flatpak?
minus-square@woelkchenlinkEnglish1•1 year ago Possibly preparing for supporting additional user packages outside of flatpak? Since Flatpak is not really suited for CLI applications, it makes sense.
what’s a nix folder for?
It’s for the Nix package manager.
Does this mean they switch to NixOs?
I was under the Impression that SteamOs was an arch distro turned immutable.
you can inţall nix package manager in every distro, maybe they did that, still arch but with nix pre-installed
Based on the link it appears to be for a package manager. Possibly preparing for supporting additional user packages outside of flatpak?
Since Flatpak is not really suited for CLI applications, it makes sense.