Can this currently be installed as a Main OS on PC and receive updates of future releases/changes? Or is that upcoming? #289
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I ask due to how SteamOS's upgrades work & because I saw updates mentioned as a future plan. Wasn't sure if it was to allow forward-compatibility or simply refering to specific components being updated. I'm aiming to use it as a daily driver on atleast one of my Devices (PC, Laptop, or SteamDeck) so that I could report bugs/issues and give feedback on how things run together to save you time. :3 |
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Yes, absolutely! We will be fully supporting upgrades. We supported upgrades between all minor 2.Y.Z releases and I intend to do the same for 3.Y.Z. The open GitHub issue we have is specifically to track the progress of major 2 to 3 upgrades. A few people are on 2 and I never want to leave any of our users behind. 🙂 As even more incentive, I'm even switching to winesapOS full-time with our stable 3.0.0 release. I'll be installing it on an internal NVME drive. Not everything can be back ported but where it makes sense we will definitely add it to our upgrade process. At the end of the day, it's just an opinionated installation of SteamOS, Arch Linux, or Manjaro. Even if you don't care about the winesapOS features, a system update via Pamac or Pacman will get you the latest package updates. We're using the same mirror and packages that the Steam Deck SteamOS 3 images are built with. Historically, we've branded ourselves as being highly portable and we are! That's a founding goal. Even still, you can absolutely use it on internal devices permanently. I'll be going through and update our documentation to make it more clear that we support both internal and external devices. |
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@LukeShortCloud I don't see how to install to an internal drive, am I missing that in the README? |
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@yisraeldov I'll take that as an action item to make it more clear in our README file. We just released winesapOS 3.2.0 today! This release makes it easier and faster to setup winesapOS onto a flash drive with our new minimal image. You can then install winesapOS onto other computers using that. Search for "setup winesapOS using winesapOS" in the README file. Alternatively, if you are installing winesapOS to the same computer, you can use BalenaEtcher and configure it to allow flashing images to internal drives by selecting the "Show hidden" option. Let me know if you run into any issues with this and I'd be happy to help further! |
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@Daasin @yisraeldov We just added initial support in winesapOS for dual-booting with Windows! I will have a 4.1.0-beta.0 release out soon with the needed changes. It requires an intermediate amount of knowledge to setup with Linux but we have documented all of the required steps. We may look into simplifying the process in the future. |
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Yes, absolutely! We will be fully supporting upgrades. We supported upgrades between all minor 2.Y.Z releases and I intend to do the same for 3.Y.Z. The open GitHub issue we have is specifically to track the progress of major 2 to 3 upgrades. A few people are on 2 and I never want to leave any of our users behind. 🙂
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As even more incentive, I'm even switching to winesapOS full-time with our stable 3.0.0 release. I'll be installing it on an internal NVME drive. Not everything can be back ported but where it makes sense we will definitely add it to our upgrade process.
At the end of the day, it's just an opinionated installation of SteamOS, Arch Linux, or Manjaro. Even if you don't care…