opi VS flathub

This is incorrect. It also installs a set list of packages.

Have you looked into OPI? This allows you to easily search and install community packages from the Open Build System similarly to how it is with working with yay on Arch. It very likely does not contain things like git packages or fonts but it can be pretty useful for packages like ckb-next and since it pulls from the OBS it is always guaranteed to be a binary, no compilation necessary

As of this writing, opi performs the following operations behind the curtains (see here for reference):

opi will implement a workaround in https://github.com/openSUSE/opi/pull/120 which will force the ffmpeg version on tumbleweed to be >=5.

OPI is your friend. You don't have to update every day...once a week or so is fine. Set up multiversion for kernels. A lot of times if a vendor offers a Fedora RPM and not openSUSE, the Fedora RPM will work fine. If you are using Nvidia, wait to update kernels... that's all I can think of. Use and update the wiki as needed, it's a good resource, but can get outdated.

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's using Packman https://github.com/openSUSE/opi

For more information https://github.com/openSUSE/opi

OPI is also useful for finding other packages that aren't in the regular repos

The easiest way to install software is with OPI, you can also search with Zypper or YaST. Generally, if you can find an RPM file built for Fedora, you can install it on Tumbleweed as well - I'm sure there are exceptions.

No, flatpak doesn't use distributions package managers. It doesn't need RPM/DEB packages to work. Today if you want to distribute a flatpak application, you build it once, upload it to flathub.org and it will show up in countless distributions like SteamOS 3 and Pop_OS!.

if you wanna install in terminal using flatpak please go to : https://flathub.org/ to make your life easier.

Yes you can install anything available here https://flathub.org/

Flathub: https://flathub.org

All flathub.org flatpaks are available in Discover. You can have a look there to see if you can find what you need. Discord, Spotify, Zoom, MS Teams and ONLYOFFICE (if you need good MS Office compatibility) are all there. I think it comes with Firefox pre-installed, but I'm pretty sure the Deck UI's non-steam tab comes with a one-click installer for Chrome, if that's more your speed. There's also a Chromium flatpak in Discover.

Name Title URL Collection ID Subset Filter Priority Options … … Homepage Icon fedora Fedora Flatpaks oci+https://registry.fedoraproject.org - - - 1 system,oci … … - - flathub Flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/ - - - 1 system … … https://flathub.org/ https://dl.flathub.org/repo/logo.svg

The Discover store is the KDE application for installing/updating/removing things - which in the Steam Deck is used to handle Flatpaks from Flathub.

Linux users typically do not install software like this, we use a package manager (a bit like the app stores on phones) to install stuff instead. SteamOS comes with Flatpak, so you can go over to FlatHub and start installing stuff.

You can install anything from https://flathub.org/.