To be fair you are trying to use steam deck for what it was not meant to do. You are an edge case. The os was built for steam + flatpack, for games.
It works for that. To use it as desktop os… See my comment above :D
It’s a computer and he is a linux user, nothing is stopping him. Also, you can use distrobox to run applications in containers
Well running Portmaster or Gnome in a container kind of defeats the purpose of those things since they need to run on the System to be effective.
What would be really neat is if there was a Way to get the SteamOS features like the menu and On screen Keyboard in Regular Arch Linux.
I mean that steam os is built for casual users that want to play. For using it as a desktop os, it’s not so great, exactly because it’s immutable and it is configured weirdly
Interesting choice of DE for casual users on a touch screen device, I kind of get that they’re not going to be using Desktop mode so much but honestly they should’ve used something like Gnome that isn’t going to be clunky and frustrating on a touch screen without a Mouse and Keyboard.