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  • If your AMD card is older than your latest linux distro release it’s plug and play, no driver installation required
    Wayland works pretty well on most desktop environments too

    beware fresh released AMD cards in combination with long term release distros like Debian stable, you most likely will need the driver from the AMD website (not recommended)





  • Just a little heads up in case you didn’t knew:
    if you install packages like latte-dock from pacman (or build from source in this case) they will vanish with your next Steam Deck update because the Linux on the Steam Deck works quite different to a regular Linux installation

    I wouldn’t get so much hung up on latte-dock anyway since it is unmaintained since quite some time and doesn’t even work on the latest KDE Plasma 6 (which SteamOS doesn’t have yet but will come in the near future)
    customizing the default Plasma Panel (right click on desktop > enter edit mode > add panel) is your best bet nowadays for a similar look

    anyway if you are really dead set on latte dock you will need to “initialize” all public keys first from the Arch Linux and Steam developers until you actually can install anything on the package manager pacman

    pacman-key --init
    pacman-key --populate archlinux
    pacman-key --populate holo
    

    the last line is specific for SteamOS only






  • People who deeply care about this typically use a distro which has a strong stance on FLOSS software like Debian or Fedora
    Arch Linux is more free on this as long as the user gets a more conveniant way to install everything (even proprietary software)

    the Arch Linux way however is also reading every PKGBUILD (where the license is stated) before installing and if you need to have an easier way to search through licenses just programatically solve this yourself i.e. by using https://github.com/archlinux/aur and going through all branches with a script







  • If we are talking Silverblue then podman is your pick for everything Flatpack “can’t”
    there is no big push for cli flatpack since this already a solved cause with containers for podman/docker/kubernetes

    however no matter how you approach this you will always have dependency security issues
    unless you built every flatpack/container yourself you are at the whim of the creator of it to keep every dependecy updated
    this is already a known vulnerability factor in the container sphere on topbl of the threat of 0-day exploits