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Does anyone know why SteamOS is based on arch rather than Debian? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I had no idea it was based on Arch... I thought I read somewhere that Steam was only officially packaged for Debian or Ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

They only support Ubuntu as downstream Distro, while they preinstall it on their number 1 supported platform, SteamOS. They control the complete software stack and even hardware.

They dont support Arch on whatever hardware, they support SteamOS on the Steamdeck.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

More embedded Linux BSPs use Arch since it's more easily stripped-down. Development of the Steam Deck would have started from the hardware up, not from a server/desktop distro down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (47 children)

People shitting on Gnome sound like kids bitching that the free pizza shop doesn't offer your favorite hamburger.

Also, all this sudden Gnome hate all over Lemmy is trendy as fuck, being trendy used to mean you were a loser with no original style, I guess the capitalists turned it into "viral" and made it cool.

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