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Well, AFAIK it's impossible/very damn hard to print on steam OS, and anything that can't be a flatpak or a container/appimage/binary.... Is not going to stay.
If you say "use the deck as main computer", I think for the most part you will be fine, but when you're not you'll be in a world of pain
Does distrobox alleviate those issues?
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.
Appreciate the info! I've been interested in immutable distros, but that would be a pretty big issue for my main PC.
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