Google just feed me this link :
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/...pment-suggests-manjaro-linux-for-now#comments
Basically : with the delay of the decks and obviously not all developers having an early version, valve tried to reach out in another way.
But this 'other way' seems kind of odd to me : use Manjaro Linux? Why? Why not just release steamos 3.0?
I'd get it if this was one of the three large corporations. Their os is part of a walled garden, so secrecy is... Somewhat of a must (or at least understandable). But this is Linux we're talking about. The platform is open, and the very idea is to share it. For valve it makes even more sense because the more it spreads, the more customers they'll have (I game on Linux, and... Depending on the game it takes effort to get things working out of the box).
And unless I'm seriously mistaken, the hardware peripherals are taken care of by the kernel, so it's not like valve suddenly has to support a gazillion types of keyboard, video cards and so on. Heck.. Steamos 2 did that years ago.
What also worries me is t in the comments. Okay, valve outlines which hardware and Manjaro version best mimicks the deck... But doesn't mention the kernel version of which experimental brand to use. I hope that's just sloppy work that gets resolved asap, but to me that seems one of the most important facts to know right now. I mean... It's also the main thing to struggle with when getting games to work right now ('oh, you should try proton version something and then start in safe mode to start the game' is currently pretty common).
So I don't get it : why outline guidelines when the os isn't the same to begin with. If game X don't work, there's easily a dozen combination of things that could be causing it, and the os is a pretty major factor in that (with the kernel not far behind)
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/...pment-suggests-manjaro-linux-for-now#comments
Basically : with the delay of the decks and obviously not all developers having an early version, valve tried to reach out in another way.
But this 'other way' seems kind of odd to me : use Manjaro Linux? Why? Why not just release steamos 3.0?
I'd get it if this was one of the three large corporations. Their os is part of a walled garden, so secrecy is... Somewhat of a must (or at least understandable). But this is Linux we're talking about. The platform is open, and the very idea is to share it. For valve it makes even more sense because the more it spreads, the more customers they'll have (I game on Linux, and... Depending on the game it takes effort to get things working out of the box).
And unless I'm seriously mistaken, the hardware peripherals are taken care of by the kernel, so it's not like valve suddenly has to support a gazillion types of keyboard, video cards and so on. Heck.. Steamos 2 did that years ago.
What also worries me is t in the comments. Okay, valve outlines which hardware and Manjaro version best mimicks the deck... But doesn't mention the kernel version of which experimental brand to use. I hope that's just sloppy work that gets resolved asap, but to me that seems one of the most important facts to know right now. I mean... It's also the main thing to struggle with when getting games to work right now ('oh, you should try proton version something and then start in safe mode to start the game' is currently pretty common).
So I don't get it : why outline guidelines when the os isn't the same to begin with. If game X don't work, there's easily a dozen combination of things that could be causing it, and the os is a pretty major factor in that (with the kernel not far behind)
). 
