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[โ€“] woelkchen@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (6 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.

[โ€“] owf@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (4 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.

[โ€“] 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.

[โ€“] 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.

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