Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    82·
    7 months ago

    Arch packaging is also significantly easier to work with in my experience. I’ve packaged for both for some years and I’ll take the Arch build system over wrangling dpkg every chance I can.

    • toasteecup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      7 months ago

      +1 to this. I built a few deb packages at a previous company. It was a solid packaging suite but good lord was it a pain to work through

    • patchexempt@lemmy.zip
      8·
      7 months ago

      I feel like this is the answer. if you’ve ever had to maintain a build pipeline or repository for .deb or .rpm, it’s not exactly pleasant (it is extremely robust, however). arch packaging is very simple by comparison, and I really doubt they’d need much more.

    • Dandroid@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      7 months ago

      I have only ever packaged for RPM (the company I work for has our own RPM-based distro). How does it compare? I find RPM to be pretty easy, but I have nothing to compare against.