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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] owf@feddit.de -3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] berg@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

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 1 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.

[-] berg@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The terminology is off then. Different distro's is not regarded as entirely new OS's, they're still Linux. E.g. SteamOS (if anything) is Steam's distro, not Steam's OS. I'm not trying to nitpick, only explain.

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