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Not sure if anyone has a Steam Deck here, but I was trying to install Chromium (not Chrome) on the Steam Deck. Well, no one is willing to actually answer my question directly on Reddit, so I'll try it here. I have got to setting the sudo password, but when I tried the install command

sudo apt install chromium-browser

I get an error that apt command not found. I'm probably going to install Windows once dual boot is made available. But for now I just want to see if I can install apps not in the Steam Discover app store. Thanks.

Not sure if anyone has a Steam Deck here, but I was trying to install Chromium (not Chrome) on the Steam Deck. Well, no one is willing to actually answer my question directly on Reddit, so I'll try it here. I have got to setting the sudo password, but when I tried the install command `sudo apt install chromium-browser` I get an error that apt command not found. I'm probably going to install Windows once dual boot is made available. But for now I just want to see if I can install apps not in the Steam Discover app store. Thanks.

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SteamOS has an immutable root filesystem. You cannot install regular packages without first disabling that, and even if you did, the changes would just get overridden at the next OS update.

If you want Chromium, you will need to install the flatpak version from the Discover app.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yea, that's what I've heard. Steam OS is basically a locked down OS, they discourage the use of apps outside of the Discover app store. I think I'm going to give up on using it for more than gaming, I'll setup dual boot Windows 10 on it once Valve releases the official dual boot support.