Not much, if any. SteamOS is based on Linux. At one point it used Debian as the base, but I think it changed to Arch with the release of the Steam Deck.

Use what ever distro you like.

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Not much, if any. SteamOS is based on Linux. At one point it used Debian as the base, but I think it changed to Arch with the release of the Steam Deck.

Use what ever distro you like.

In terms of security system it’s also the same?

the biggest difference is going to be who is putting it together

it will be designed and tweaked to work for steam by steam from the get go

we can do this ourselves,

but it can be a lot depending on the distro and desktop

i can't wait to try it, very curious to see what they do

Originally posted by matan007:

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Not much, if any. SteamOS is based on Linux. At one point it used Debian as the base, but I think it changed to Arch with the release of the Steam Deck.

Use what ever distro you like.

In terms of security system it’s also the same?

It is as secure as any other version of Linux or how ever you want to make it.

Originally posted by Spawn of Totoro:

Originally posted by matan007:

In terms of security system it’s also the same?

It is as secure as any other version of Linux or how ever you want to make it.

Up until now better then windows to be honest I don’t know why Lenovo chose windows at the beginning it was junk compared to steamos now it’s really a beast like I’m getting way more fps and stability then I had with windows

Linux distributions have been built from the ground up with security and compartmentalization in mind, following the old Unix systems of individual users and group permissions.

Windows, on the other hand, hid the file extensions by default, resulting in famous cases where people got emails with executable scripts and double clicked them, thinking they were text or picture files. When Windows Vista finally introduced the User Account Control popups, the "I'm a PC/I'm a Mac" commercials mocked them for being overprotective, even though Linux had had Sudo for 20 years at that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZDiQczOsdc

SteamOS is more secure than most, since it locks the root file system by default, so the user can only change stuff in their home directory, preventing them from damaging anything accidentally, or running scripts that change the root.