Valve (Steam) begin a direct collaboration with Arch Linux [seems like Valve uses Arch btw]
Valve (Steam) begin a direct collaboration with Arch Linux [seems like Valve uses Arch btw]
This is some pretty exciting news! The Arch Linux team have announced a new direct collaboration with Valve (Steam).
FYI - the owner of this site, gamingonlinux, was a mod on the !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml community until they were caught abusing their moderator powers. Then they deleted their account and complained on mastodon that it's stupid design that mod logs are public.
Instead, here is a direct link to the Arch linux announcement:
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/For all the times I've seen this written I've not ever seen any mention of what the abuses were. Have any details?
Scroll down to three months ago.
It appears our erstwhile whistle blower had his ego more than a little involved in this dispute, and still bears some bad feelings.
w/e it's an excellent site and galaxy of related services
I use arch btw
I keep trying to find Arch BTW, but the download page doesn't list it
BTW stands for Beta Testing Workshop, which is the "bleeding edge" version of Arch that gets released early. You probably want the stable, long term support version that only gets released very infrequently, like every 3-4 days.
I use Arch BTW BTW
A 3 day old kernel build? Will that have support for my hardware? Feels like it might be a little outdated.
I had to think for a minute straight to get this. :D
seems like Valve uses Arch
Seems like? Have you been living under a rock?
SteamOS 3 is based on Arch and was released 2022 with the Steam Deck.
That sentence went right over your head it seems.
It was a play on the "I use Arch btw" meme.
I know the meme and it didn’t go over my head. OPs remark was either misinformed or poorly phrased. The meme isn’t “I seem to use Arch btw” and valve isn’t seemingly using Arch, they most definitely are.
Steam OS, which they use for the Steam Deck is based on Arch btw, which is why