Why did valve based SteamOS off of arch instead of something like debian or fedora?
>>107671951Faster updates.
>>107671951Because it's the best one
Debian too old. Not sure why Fedora, it's not that far behind Arch. Maybe licensing issue with Red Hat.
>>107671967Fedora actually has an elected Engineering Steering Committee that decides what gets in and out into releases so Valve would not be free to do as they wished.Meanwhile Arch, well... It feels like their maintainers actually hate doing their jobs and probably would be more willing to do what valve says/valve offers
>>107672080>it feels like their maintainers actually hate doing their jobs and probably would be more willing to do what valve says/valve offersKek but true
>>107671951Wasn't the first steamos debian?
>>107671951Better customizability.
>>107672119Ubuntu. The second steamOS was based off Debian. The steam runtime is still based off Ubuntu.
>>107672080Oh yeah, look at the horrible things Valve has done... for linux?Does it still make you mad that people want working codecs? I swear there's no name more appropriate for Fedora than Fedora.
>>107672408So you suggest that they should just abolish their current management structure and wholly give it to valve because they'll do good?I don't understand what you're implying here
>>107671951They want full control and not to be held back by others.
>>107672148They'll use Nix next time
>>107672438No they can just sit in their own corner like a buncha nerds if it works for them
>>107672493Doubt it. Maybe in a decade if the devs ever get converted. They dont seem to want to remake their whole development and CI system when the Ubuntu runtime works. The linux container runtimes are Debian based and I doubt those will change in the next 4-5 years themselves.
>>107671951Arch is unironically the best gaming distro because you don't have to compile the newest drivers and libraries to make it work with recent games.
