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?

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
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    1 year ago

    The popular opinion is that it was easier for them to get up-to-date packages that way.

    My opinion: It’s just what the people working on the Deck were using at the time themselves.

    Other reason might be that they had SteamOS 2 based on Debian and probably had some problems with it that they could solve on Arch more easily.