Maybe this will mean Valve will finally improve the controller interaction with their steam store. Because there is nothing more unsatisfying than using the Steam Community, Workshop or Store on Deck.

Either the action bar at the bottom starts to flash rapidly, the controller is jumping towards items not visible on screen or randomly selecting things in the background which are blurred out like the power menu, or a controller input get repeated for a few seconds without the user pressing anything (especially after waking the Deck from sleep) and so many little annoying issues.

They definitely need a proper native Steam Deck UI for the store and not just the website forced into the big picture mode ...

As of now Valve does not need to improve anything because the competition is even worse on hand-held, UI wise.

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I know this will get me in trouble but I feel like no Arch Linux spin is ready to be shipped to the masses.
Even the kinda point release Arch Linux SteamOS 3 is flunky at times.
Then considering these devices are handed to the "not so tech savvy" folks.

Does Manjaro still do manual testing? Or did they finally moved to use something like OpenQA for their package integrity and bug testing?

If it comes to rolling release or semi-rolling Release openSUSE Tumbleweed, Aeon, Kalpa and Fedora and Silverblue are unrivaled in stability and reliability.
While openSUSE has a better shot at avg. Desktops users as there is simply never the need for a release update as it is common for Fedora and Manjaro. So the user just keeps on rollin while Aeon and Kalpa are fully automated and wouldn't even messup a Nvidia driver update.

Couldn't they have teamed up with openSUSE or Fedora? Those guys already know how to get immutable desktops right. :/

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I have mixed feelings about this. Considering there are only two perceptions of Manjaro: Great as f*ck and Broken as f*ck it will be interesting to see how it will turn out.

Also I feel like SteamOS is already a bit flunky from time to time I see a lot of potential of things to go wrong.

Don't get me wrong, SteamOS is perfectly fine for what it is intended to be used for as a handheld, but there are quite a few nuances and things randomly being annoying.

Like it sometimes does a full restet when going from Desktop back to gaming mode. You hear the sound of the boot video, then it stops and it starts to verify the installation.

Or Steam Link and the Steam Client crashing gamescope at least once when connecting for remote play.

Randomly not picking up external displays unless you do a full shutdown.

With some HDMI to Display port cables it's usable to read the EDIF of some devices.

And so many more little things randomly bugging out.

Considering it's done by Valve and they have all this little issues while they usually do exceptionally well software (unless you run Steam on Wayland + nvidia). What might Manjaro pull off with.

Does Manjaro have the man power to maintain such a system software wise?

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