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I’m super excited to see that they’ve chosen Arch as a base for SteamOS. I understand fully why they originally chose Ubuntu, but I feel like Arch actually hits
by jchw 5y ago
I’m super excited to see that they’ve chosen Arch as a base for SteamOS. I understand fully why they originally chose Ubuntu, but I feel like Arch actually hits a lot of sweet spots for consumer use cases and could be adapted for such use quite effectively. (To be fair, I feel similarly about Gentoo, which was similarly adapted for ChromeOS quite successfully.)
- gremlinsinc 5y agoI'm required as an Arch user to also reply and say I'm an arch user, and approve this message.
- peakaboo 5y agoI use Arch btw
- furgooswft13 5y agohello fellow Arch user. I too approve of this message and sudo pacman -Syu without fear.
- encryptluks2 5y agoMe too... don't forget the Btrfs snapshots.
- lscotte 5y agoZFS here.
- vlowther 5y agoSame, except just yay.
- luke2m 5y agoroses are red, violets are blue sudo pacman -Syu there is nothing to do
- gorgoiler 5y agoI love a good distro story but it doesn’t seem very relevant here. A Linux distribution like Ubuntu, Arch or Gentoo provides a platform for users to configure their system. The distro is a toolkit for finishing up a generic OS into the specific workstation needed by the user to do their work. Steam Deck on the other hand has one job to do: launch /opt/steam and run things linked against libsteam. The end user won’t be doing anything with the OS itself. Accordingly, the underlying distro just doesn’t seem that interesting. What about the distro could possibly be surfaced to the end user/gamer that they would care about? It’s not like Steam will apt dist-upgrade their device: upgrades will be a complete reimage.
- madpata 5y agoUsing Arch probably allows for faster updates, since Steam won't have to wait for ages to use some of the newest Linux kernels. Same goes for other supporting software. Ubuntu is good as a stable platform, but it's probably too slow moving.
- riffraff 5y agoBut why would you want the latest upgrade rather then a stable platform to build a console? If you upgrade often and you break stuff people will scream at you, so you need extensive testing of 3rd party games before you release an update of your os, which will naturally limit you anyway.
- asciimov 5y agoI moved off of a standard release and onto a rolling release distro because the software I used the most was always a major release (or two) behind. Since it's based on arch, I assume they will pull the latest software from arch, test it, and push out updates as they are verified.
- moehm 5y agoIf we are talking about upgrading means a complete reimage, Valve probably doesn't push every minor upgrade, but bundles them together. Like what Manjaroo is doing.
- depressedpanda 5y agoI'm fairly certain SteamOS was based on Debian, not Ubuntu.
- homarp 5y agohttps://store.steampowered.com/steamos/ https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/ says So, what is SteamOS? SteamOS is a public release of our Linux-based operating system. The base system draws from Debian 8, code named Debian Jessie. Our work builds on top of the solid Debian core and optimizes it for a living room experience. Most of all, it is an open Linux platform that leaves you in full control. You can take charge of your system and install new software or content as you want.
- seba_dos1 5y agoI guess it's a bit confusing because their Steam Runtime was based on Ubuntu.
- blooalien 5y agoSteamOS was indeed based on Debian, and Ubuntu was the officially supported distro of the Steam desktop client, and now the new SteamOS is apparently Arch based. Distro-hoppin' like a Boss! ;)
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- Chris2048 5y agoI'd be more exited if it used Nix