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For most users, including many developers, SteamOS absolutely can be general purpose.

There are two main "daily driver" usability issues on SteamOS by default if you need to do technical work:

- Limited software availability via the flatpak repositories.

- Not being able to install certain programs as easily without needing containerisation of some kind (if that even solves the problem in some cases).

Distrobox solves a good amount of both issues on SteamOS, for coding work at least. Slap a virtual Ubuntu on and you're off to the races.




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