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IF you want Steam, THEN you want one of the Ubuntu family: Steam doesn't support any other kind of Linux distro.
openSUSE gave me compatibility-issues after I had it running properly, both Tumbleweed AND OpenLEAP versions, when they broke my wifi-driver, early in 2023, so I'm kinda leery of recommending them.
If you want the most Unix-like system, Slackware used to be that, haven't used it in years, though...
Funtoo should probably be the go-to distro for compute-oriented machines, like Blender renderers, or such... optimize to use ALL the hardware-advantage you can...
Many enjoy Void Linux.
just some opinions & experiences...
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SteamOS is Arch with Steam components on top, so I would hope they support other distros! :-) It works great for me on Fedora as well.
Depending on their previous experience, a new user may be overwhelmed with any extra configuration involved in getting their computer running. In those cases a Debian/Ubuntu based distribution such as Mint or Pop is a stable foundation to learn what they want out of their system.
When I complained to them about Steam being broken on my ( either openSUSE Tumbleweed or LEAP, or Void Linux ) system,
they told me they only support Ubuntu, period.
I'm not talking about rumors, or feelings, or heresay, they put it in text/"writing", through their Steam support system, in a message to me, that they only support Ubuntu.
People downvoting me for stating fact is stupid ( I've no idea if you were one of the people who downvoted my comment, I'm presuming that statistically, 1 of the others who commented against my factual-reporting did. ).
If people have a problem with Steam not being the way they want-to-believe, then ought tell Steam to make a statement contradicting what they told me, and making explicit that they support Arch.
I've seen enough comments on various Lemmy communities, to know that I do not want to try running Steam on Arch: I've had enough obstacle-induced migraines in my life.
IF they tell you something contradictory to what they told me, fine: you get more-recent information that what I got some months ago!
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?
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Excuse me??? I use Steam on Arch with Endeavour and it works perfectly fine after uninstalling xdg-desktop-gnome.
Worked perfectly fine out of the box for me too
They told me, when I complained about it not working properly in the distro I was using at the time, either openSUSE Tumbleweed, or openSUSE LEAP, or Void Linux, that they only support Ubuntu.
That was their statement to me, on the Steam support system.
I'm presuming they know what their policies are.
Sorry if this doesn't fit what people believe.
SteamOS is based on arch, and there are alternatives based off of steamOS, and more targeting gaming and Steam generally.