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Steam OS Updates

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Hello dear developers,

I wanted to make a quick comment about the Steam OS updates.

When Steam starts in Big-Picture mode, if we go into the system settings to do a full OS update, the Flatpaks are not updated.

We need to switch to office mode to make the flatpak updates.

However, from what I have seen, Mesa is updated via the Flatpaks. And Mesa is an important component to update for AMD graphics cards.

I don’t know what the command is in Arch, but under Debian it is:

apt update && apt dist-upgrade -y && flatpak update -y && flatpak uninstall --unused -y

It would be good if you included him...

Best regards.

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Start by reproducing a full OS update from Big-Picture mode, then compare it with the office-mode update flow. Confirm whether Flatpak updates are skipped in Big-Picture mode; done means the full OS update also handles Flatpaks without requiring a switch to office mode.

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Tech stack
linux
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operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
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