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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does SteamOS count as Linux? How about Android?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does SteamOS count as Linux?

Why wouldn't an Arch branch not be Linux?

How about Android?

Completely irrelevant because Steam games don't run on Android.

There is a Steam app for Android so I figured that would count...

[–] owf@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why wouldn't an Arch branch not be Linux?

Because it's Valve's own OS. They might consider being first-party sufficient reason to not to lump it in with its third-party cousins.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it’s Valve’s own OS.

Still a regular GNU/Linux distribution. Even entertaining the idea it being anything else is ridiculous.

[–] owf@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Even entertaining the idea it being anything else is ridiculous.

It's their own OS running on their own custom handheld. Treating it separately from other linux machines might be odd, but calling it "ridiculous" is being childish.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's based upon the well established distro Arch, and thus still considered Linux. A distro is basically the Linux kernel with pre-installed packages. SteamOS only adds another layer of packages unto Arch afaik.

[–] owf@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, I know how Linux works.

The poster above asked for a reason why steamOS might be considered separately to other sisters, and I gave them a possible one.