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I know gaming has gotten a lot better on Linux and I'm working on a new PC and I'm wondering which distro to try.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do you have an source ?

Its surprising because steamsos is build on Debian/Ubuntu so.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I thought SteamOS was built on Arch. It uses pacman as the package manager like Arch does instead of apt like Debian/Ubuntu does.

Edit: Wikipedia answered it for me. SteamOS 1.0 and 2.0 were Debian-based. Starting with SteamOS 3.0, it is Arch-based.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the update :-) I needed it XD

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

SteamOS 3+ is built on Arch.