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Been running arch for nearly 10 years and the only couple of breaking changes I had were either from ignorance or not reading special update instructions.

Also Arch is far more up to date than those you mention (sometimes by many months.) You're not confusing it with another distro?

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Do Steam Deck users have to read those special update instructions as well? That sounds like a pain. Why can't it just be automatic

Them using an arch base doesn’t mean they’ll be running arch as if it was the same end user of a manual arch installation. I’d bet steam is using arch as the base and acting as canonical or whoever vetting (and automating) the upstream changes.

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