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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?

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[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I shared a green text recently that said just this lol

https://lemmy.world/post/15006352

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 13 points 7 months ago

Since the start. Forget working with them, it's a rough go to even try and communicate with them.

And that goes back to mailing list days, creating a personal grudge against Gnome so firm that I haven't used it since the early 2000s.

Thankfully there's KDE for my general use and a wide variety of lightweight options for other uses.

[–] Nyfure@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago

Just saw it too :D