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		Ygg2 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Valve takes another step toward making SteamOS a t... Except the user-base wants infinite customizability, and users are often to mess with it. And getting the code to just work together nicely is a nightmare, where OS updates can break drivers, forcing you to try to jerry rig a solution that partially works.

tuna74 7 months ago [–]

You let something like Arch target those users that want infinite customizability. SteamOS certainly does not offer that.

And if there was such a nightmare to create a distro, how come there are so many?

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