From 3.4.10 already significant pacman key issue existing, forcing us to skip signature verification for many of the packages. Now 3.5.5 makes the situation more frustrating.
- linux-neptune-61-headers still not being migrating from jupiter-main to -rel
- virtualbox-host-dkms build requires libguile-2.2.so.1 while the installed Guile is already 3.0.7
- base-devel even forcing downgrade for most of the packages, corrupting sudo
Well Steam OS is not designed for usage besides gaming so it is nothing to be complained here, but if you rely on pacman heavily like me, better to skip this version and wait for improvement.
Note: to rollback, use Option + Power to select previous OS, then run command ‘sudo rauc status mark-active booted’ as this post.
I would suggest installing different OS then. Arch if pacman is necessary, but afaik there are distros starting in Big Picture mode as well that are built on I believe fedora?
Don’t some stuff need to be upstreamed first before vanilla Arch can work well on the Deck?
Excluding some of the specialized distro’s (Chimera maybe) Arch would be the one to support it the best. Though, ever since the release of Garuda Hyprland, I’ve kind of been interested in trying that out. You could easily write startup scripts to auto-launch BPM
Well just personally believe keeping an older version of Steam OS would take less risk then using another OS on Steam Deck
You could try using distro box for that.