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?
More embedded Linux BSPs use Arch since it’s more easily stripped-down. Development of the Steam Deck would have started from the hardware up, not from a server/desktop distro down.