I’m just learning about the Steam Machine OS capabilities now, and apparently it uses a Flatpak system for the Steam OS apps, right? Does anyone know if that includes programs like an FTP client? Or, where I can find a list of apps that Steam OS will be able to run. Curious to find out just how capable of a PC replacement the Steam Machine will be.

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    2 months ago

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  • marighost@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You can see every available Flatpak program over at Flathub. Looks like they even have a flatpak for Filezilla, a popular FTP program (though, I don’t know how well it works as a flatpak; I’ve only ever used the Windows version of the app).

    Development tools, browsers, productivity, and even games. You can also utilize AppImage programs if they’re available.

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Looks like they even have a flatpak for Filezilla, a popular FTP program (though, I don’t know how well it works as a flatpak; I’ve only ever used the Windows version of the app).

      I use the flatpak, it works well

  • Maiq@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    In the steamOS provided by steam, it uses arch. It is a bit neutered in respect of handling native arch packages via pacman. This is so steam can maintain a bit of stability for users new to linux and are not ready for the arch experiance.

    You can install almost anything you’ll probably need as a flatpak and you can use the discover app store to find and install them.

    For a more advanced use case you can also install nix and pacman applications. Probably better to stick with flatpak unless what you need isn’t available.

  • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the file manager used in plasma (called dolphin) had ftp / network share capability built in like Nautilus does in GNOME.

    The Steam Machine’s SoC is kind of like a modern notebook in that it has two full sized performance cores, and four smaller (area optimised) ones. Should handle desktop tasks relatively well, though its single channel config as shipped may hurt application performance quite a bit.

    It should be able to run pretty much anything other x86_64 systems running an immutable Linux distro can, and there are various methods of running conventionally packaged (non-flatpak) Linux SW in such an environment.