So one of the problem I’ve heard when downloading linux programs on the steam-deck is that it is utilizing Read Only Memory (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BO3pH48fM0).
Has anyone actually used the pacman installer to work around this issue? Would be interested in learning how to do this. Im familiar with setting path variables in the shell and modifying the internals of the linux distro, so please let me know how your experience was if you tried to install anything outside of the flathub. Thanks!
It’s not read only memory; it’s a read-only filesystem. The system partitions are locked by default. You can unlock them and make them available to be written to, and then you can install things via pacman or whatever, but SteamOS updates blow out the system partitions. You’ll have to repeat the process any time an update is applied, reinstalling anything you installed previously.