Does anyone know why SteamOS is based on arch rather than Debian?

LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Linux@lemmy.ml – 131 points –

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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Why would you ever need such a feature? Closed.

I shared a green text recently that said just this lol

https://lemmy.world/post/15006352

Since the start. Forget working with them, it's a rough go to even try and communicate with them.

And that goes back to mailing list days, creating a personal grudge against Gnome so firm that I haven't used it since the early 2000s.

Thankfully there's KDE for my general use and a wide variety of lightweight options for other uses.