Report Omarchy to Steam instead of Arch Linux - #284
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Summary
/etc/lsb-releaseoverrideomarchy-settingspackagesrollingso reporting is not split across Omarchy patch versionsWhy
Omarchy already identifies itself correctly in
/etc/os-release:However, Arch's
steampackage depends onlsb-release, whose/etc/lsb-releasecurrently says:Steam's launcher checks
/etc/lsb-releasebefore/etc/os-release. On a stock Omarchy 4.0.2 installation this is visible in~/.local/share/Steam/logs/console-linux.txt:Steam's public hardware survey does not currently list Omarchy as a distinct Linux version. Although the public table only exposes entries above its reporting cutoff, the client-side value shows that native Steam installations submit/use the Arch identity at this detection point.
With this override, the same Steam detection path resolves to:
Verification
bash -npasses for both PKGBUILDs and install scripts./bin/sync-upstream self-test./bin/omarchy-pkgs self-test./bin/omarchy-release self-testomarchy-settingsbuilds successfully withmakepkg