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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] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

SteamOS, which is what is on the Deck, used to be Debian-based. The creation of the Deck led to an environment where a rolling distro was a better choice.

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

I don't think it has anything to do with Arch being a rolling distro.

SteamOS isn't a rolling distro, it's by releases controlled by Valve.

Even on a Debian base they could have done the same, like Ubuntu releasing versions independently from Debian.

Because SteamOS is immutable, the simplest today would be to use a Fedora Atomic base.