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Does anyone know why SteamOS is based on arch rather than Debian?
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I had no idea it was based on Arch... I thought I read somewhere that Steam was only officially packaged for Debian or Ubuntu.
SteamOS was based on Debian but they changed when they released Steam deck with Arch base
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.