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Valve (Steam) begin a direct collaboration with Arch Linux [seems like Valve uses Arch btw] (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

FYI - the owner of this site, gamingonlinux, was a mod on the !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml community until they were caught abusing their moderator powers. Then they deleted their account and complained on mastodon that it's stupid design that mod logs are public.

Instead, here is a direct link to the Arch linux announcement:
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/RIZSKIBDSLY4S5J2E2STNP5DH4XZGJMR/

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

For all the times I've seen this written I've not ever seen any mention of what the abuses were. Have any details?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

https://lemmy.ca/modlog/3067

Scroll down to three months ago.

It appears our erstwhile whistle blower had his ego more than a little involved in this dispute, and still bears some bad feelings.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Regardless of who the abuse was against, any mod abuse should not be acceptable. People should see consequences for their actions and not benefit from the community they were abusing, particularly when it's financial benefits.

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

Appreciate it!

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -2 points 7 hours ago

w/e it's an excellent site and galaxy of related services

[–] brrt@sh.itjust.works 33 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

seems like Valve uses Arch

Seems like? Have you been living under a rock?

SteamOS 3 is based on Arch and was released 2022 with the Steam Deck.

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That sentence went right over your head it seems.

It was a play on the "I use Arch btw" meme.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

So despite what they say, Arch IS the superior distro

[–] adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

When managed in A/B install partitions by a third party org that layers their own stable/alpha/main versioning over the top? ;P

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

Details, details… you gotta look at the bigger picture

[–] towerful@programming.dev 22 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I keep trying to find Arch BTW, but the download page doesn't list it

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 41 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

BTW stands for Beta Testing Workshop, which is the "bleeding edge" version of Arch that gets released early. You probably want the stable, long term support version that only gets released very infrequently, like every 3-4 days.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

I use Arch BTW BTW

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 7 points 12 hours ago

A 3 day old kernel build? Will that have support for my hardware? Feels like it might be a little outdated.

[–] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 17 hours ago

I had to think for a minute straight to get this. :D

[–] Smk@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago

I use arch btw

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 6 points 18 hours ago

Steam OS, which they use for the Steam Deck is based on Arch btw, which is why