Is this a totally crazy idea? Talk me down before I hurt myself.

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    8 months ago

    Not all. Cups doesn’t seem to work in distro box and even if it does printer drivers won’t.

    Others like tailscale need (last time I checked) 3rd party scripts to even install, so possible but not trivial without research.

    For context, I use Bazzite for home/work/gaming and there are a few use cases I couldn’t make work without installing packages.

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      8 months ago

      Appreciate the info! I’ve been interested in immutable distros, but that would be a pretty big issue for my main PC.

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        8 months ago

        Just one thing, SteamOS is specially tricky for this as it doesn’t support layers.

        Bazzite is also immutable but thanks to the layers I got the main things fixed, and as it’s based on silverblue there are a lot more resources to check