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Steam support two weeks ago be like:
They support Unity???
Reading the announcement, this won't be changed. Steam on Arch is still not supported.
Not officially supported but it works just as well and might be more well documented than Ubuntu, regarding support and issues
Maybe that bug report was the motivation for the collaboration! Or maybe the level 1 support aren't aware of unannounced business decisions.
Working in open-source, frequent issues do end up being future feature requests.
The Steamdeck was motivation for the collaboration - since it is based on Arch Linux. But as a desktop client they only support ubuntu officially which makes level 1 tech support easier as supporting every distro can be very complex.
Completely fair. They have specific distro they support, and their staff is trained for. Also this seems like you've got some OS level issues independent from steam...
Yeah and arch is a distro where you do things yourself.
If Windows or MacOs had a variety of distributions, Valve would similarly limit support to a practicable number.