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		RealStickman_ on July 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve Steam Deck Valve probably does not want to maintain their own distro. Using Arch as a core with their own packages on top is far easier and ensures you always have the newest core components.

phendrenad2 on July 16, 2021 [–]

What does it mean to use Arch as a "core"? Can't they just pull a list of packages that Arch uses (or the latest Ubuntu for that matter), and use those in their Linux insall?

jcelerier on July 17, 2021 | [–]

sure but doing that with pacman is trivial... and if you're using pacman and arch packages, you're pretty much using arch

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