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Re:Valve Steam Deck by Jnr on Thursday July 15, 2021 @04:47PM (#27849926)
My guess is that Valve will keep their own mirrors and update from upstream only once their relevant packages will be tested for compatibility.

I have been using Archlinux for more than 10 years and from time to time some major upgrades can make things broken for a couple days until all the packages get updated and all the relevant compatibility fixes have been pushed upstream by the developers. But in most cases this happens with some 3rd party desktop related packages or closed source drivers. I bet that Valve won't have that many problems with AMD since their drivers are open source.

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Re:Valve Steam Deck by ThatPlayer on Thursday July 15, 2021 @08:01PM (#27851598)
I could also see them running a read-only system partition with snapshots for updates. And with btrfs send/receive you could do 'system updates' with just incremental snapshots, and the ability to rollback.

Or just use packages and make regular snapshots.

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