you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 8 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 3 years 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.

  • source
  • parent