SteamDeckPersistentRootFs VS rwfus

Even the creator of SteamDeckPersistentRootFs said it's a bad idea and he's run into issues forcing config changes to persist between updates.

https://github.com/Chloe-ko/SteamDeckPersistentRootFs.

This scares me. If I got this right it leads to the same problems described here: https://github.com/Chloe-ko/SteamDeckPersistentRootFs Which are inconsistencies with old versions in the overlay and new versions of the newest firmware image.

Legit, if you want to get a little more involved with linux you can play with the persistent rootfs trick. https://github.com/Chloe-ko/SteamDeckPersistentRootFs What this will do, is allow you to actually install things from the arch command line installer and have it stay between updates. If you want a graphical installer for the arch install manager tkpacman is a nice lightweight one; and is what I'm using now.

lol. Also! If you want to take advantage of the linux core I recommend this trick for a persistent FSRoot https://github.com/Chloe-ko/SteamDeckPersistentRootFs

GOG games for Linux, and those you install via Lutris should be fine by default. That being said if you want to install software from the official Arch repositories or the AUR, I would suggest using something like https://github.com/Chloe-ko/SteamDeckPersistentRootFs to provide an overlay for you to install your software into.

Yes but it is completely overwritten each OS update. I worked around that with Overlay + a few other modifications to allow reboot to non-overlay OS and restore overlay after update.

https://github.com/Chloe-ko/SteamDeckPersistentRootFs (not mine but been happy for couple of months with it)

Not made by me works great so far https://github.com/Chloe-ko/SteamDeckPersistentRootFs

I ran endeavour OS for a week on it all worked except the sound on the steamdeck, worked trough HDMI but I could not find a sound device onboard of the steamdeck. Had some problems with network but I will say probably to do with my USB c hubs. In the end I went with https://github.com/Chloe-ko/SteamDeckPersistentRootFs for my use case it is just easier then dual booting. Made some simple scripts that I can execute as games in steamos to select if I want BSPWM/Gnome and then click go to desktop and all works.

You can use https://github.com/ValShaped/rwfus

Reason is, that valves os is based on arch linux, but they locked all the system partitions down to read only. You can unlock them or use tools to lay a fake redirect layer over them (see: https://github.com/ValShaped/rwfus), but thats advanced users stuff.

I use this with regular steamos works between channel switches on 3.5 https://github.com/ValShaped/rwfus

I'm using rwfus

I'm using rwfus to create an overlayfs over the rootfs so that packages and other changes persist across updates

I also might want to install a few other basic tools going forward, so rwfus was a great choice.