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bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

tbf back then they picked possibly the worst base for a gaming distro, a problem that has been remedied with the new SteamOS

The actual runtime the games run on is still based on Debian, though.

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neshura@bookwormstory.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
that’s fine and all but the problem with zhe debian based SteamOS were the horribly outdated GPU drivers. The runtime was fine but the OS lacked support for bleeding edge hardware (which is somewhat important for a gaming OS)

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- bobby@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  that’s fine and all but the problem with the debian based SteamOS were the horribly outdated GPU drivers.
  
  SteamOS doesn’t use plain upstream GPU drivers. Back when SteamOS 3 was announced, Valve employees said in interviews that switching to an Arch base would allow them to more frequently update the OS, yes, but now with SteamOS 3 being out since quite some time it became clear that this is simply not the case. Big Arch package syncs are a rare occurrence, kernel and Mesa are maintained in their own downstream branches.
  
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