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    [–] Ashyr 37 points 7 months ago (25 children)

    Can anyone explain anything in this meme? I don’t know the anime, I don’t know the symbols, all I recognize is the steam logo.

    [–] anindefinitearticle 55 points 7 months ago (20 children)

    I don’t know the anime either, but the steam logo is walking away from the debian logo and then staring into the eyes of the arch logo. OP is saying that valve made the right choice by ditching debian (I thought they were using ubuntu, but that’s just a debian derivative with a bad UI on top) for arch as the basis for steamOS. For a gaming platform, I agree. You want the latest updates and software versions for gaming purposes (and proton/wine purposes), and they can hire employees to ensure they have tackled arch’s bleeding-edge instabilities before rolling the updates out to the general population.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    but that’s just a debian derivative with a bad UI on top

    What is, Ubuntu, or the pre-Arch based SteamOS? I ask because Ubuntu has so many different variants that you can pick a UI that works for you.

    [–] anindefinitearticle 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    True, but the desktop environment that they develop in-house is what I grade them on. Not the color themes and backgrounds that they put on desktop environments produced by other projects. You can install other desktop environments on any linux distro. Ubuntu only produces Unity.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    That's true, but you could always just install Kubuntu or Xubuntu and still get a great experience, it's literally just Ubuntu with a different DE so you would still get the full Ubuntu "experience" imo, although yeah I do see your point. Though, I do think Ubuntu has actually moved back to GNOME and killed off Unity.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

    They even link to the alternate desktop environments on their site

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Ubuntu doesn’t use unity anymore, their default UI is a GNOME shell with some extensions. It works pretty well imo. Not that different from gnome itself

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