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Valve's Steam Deck updates to Plasma 6.2.5! (cdn.masto.host)
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Valve's Steam Deck updates to Plasma 6.2.5!

The games console has a slow update cycle to guarantee stability for users, but #Valve announced yesterday that both the #Arch base system and the #Plasma desktop environment are being updated to new preview releases.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/529841158837240756

#SteamDeck #SteamOS #Steam #gaming #linux

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[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

It has always confused me how they're able to keep updates for too long on a rolling release distro. What kind of magic do they use to achieve that?

[-] QuandaleDingle@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

I wonder if it's running some sort of "split release" cycle, where the KDE environment updates are delayed, but kernel and graphics drivers are rolling.

[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'd love to know. I'd assume that "split release" would be happening on the steam client itself (when you get an update through the steam settings), because going into desktop mode, you only get flatpaks update (at least as far as I know). You can't just run sudo pacman -Syu and get your update.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Steam OS is not a rolling release. It's version numbers make it clear, it's a point release. It's versioned.

[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Is that possible when the OS is based on Arch?

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Try it. Open the terminal and try to do an update. You can't, neither the system. Steam OS is image based, conceptually equal to Bazzite.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

They take a specific version of arch, then add packages/changes selectively.

A little bird told me it's quite a pain that arch updates so fast, because if they want to update package A they need to deal with a dependency hell due to everything having update on the meantime, and switching to Debian was even discussed still around the time OLED was released.

[-] anzo@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

They take a specific version of arch, (..)

Which? Which one?!!

I believe they might take version numbers (for packages) from Fedora or somewhere else.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

One "day". Doesn't need to be a numbered version. It's there same as any other non immutable release in a way. Ubuntu 24.10 is different from one day to another, even with the same version number.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Rolling release is kind of a misnomer. It is technically rolling but the system is carefully put together and everything is updated at the same time.

[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I understand that, but if you run a rolling release, you know you're getting updates constantly, and this is what I'm asking about. How is steam keeping up with these updates while "not updating"? Lol

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

It really isn't a rolling release. They are cherry picking packages and package versions.

[-] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

So, they are just "based" on arch?

[-] szkodnix@sk.szkod.ovh 5 points 1 month ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Took them quite some time ​:FernHappy2:​

[-] nlsmart@piaille.fr 3 points 1 month ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Nice to know, Enjoy !

[-] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

Sounds good. I'm happy with plasma 6.xx on my desktop.

[-] sirmikester@mastodon.social 2 points 1 month ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social as a long time gnome user I was skeptical about valve's decision to use kde. After using it for a while as my daily driver, I have to say that I've been impressed with the progress you've made over the years. Kudos!

[-] warriormaster@mastodon.social 1 points 1 month ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social shame though that it wasn’t updated to 6.3.3. We could have had upstream hdr on the deck

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 1 month ago

My guess is that they had been developing the new version of SteamOS from before 6.3.3 was available and the newest version of Plasma was not ready in time, and that they were always going to prefer to go with something they had stabilised than risking putting a newer, less tested version of Plasma on a commercial device.

[-] deregon@mastodon.social 1 points 1 month ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social The inclusion of Filelight by default is a good move imo. It's widely used on setups like these and more detailed than the Gaming Mode storage breakdown

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