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?

  • brax
    4·
    7 months ago

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

    • Kristof12@lemmy.ml
      6·
      7 months ago

      SteamOS was based on Debian but they changed when they released Steam deck with Arch base

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      4·
      7 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.