I understand that, but if you run a rolling release, you know you're getting updates constantly, and this is what I'm asking about. How is steam keeping up with these updates while "not updating"? Lol

I'd love to know. I'd assume that "split release" would be happening on the steam client itself (when you get an update through the steam settings), because going into desktop mode, you only get flatpaks update (at least as far as I know). You can't just run sudo pacman -Syu and get your update.

It has always confused me how they're able to keep updates for too long on a rolling release distro. What kind of magic do they use to achieve that?

Lmao. I mostly play the free games. I also have the heroic launcher and I'm signed into gog, epic and prime on it and so far, they've given me 85 free games. I have a lifetime supply of games.

I've been on steam for over 4 years and I've spent a whopping $0.99.

Is that why Microsoft pushing copilot so hard on people? They even made a dedicated button for it on keyboards.

When did John Bolton become a gamer?