Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April
That’s before the Legion Go S arrives.
PC when?
Just install Bazzite this way you have the actual Linux flexibility and an OS made for PC.
I highly recommend not using SteamOS on your PC, unless it's literally used as a console. Use any major distro instead.
I agree with your sentiment, but I disagree with your conclusion of using any major distro. If you've ever had to fix a corrupted package manager database caused by an in-place distro upgrade or had to install third-party package repositories to get access to up-to-date software, you'll understand where I'm coming from.
Beginners should start with something that either has bells and whistles included for out-of-the-box gaming, or comes with an easy way to un-fuck itself when you end up breaking something. It doesn't need to be Nix, but it probably shouldn't be Debian (which has a slow release cadence) or Ubuntu (because fuck Canonical and their "my way or the highway" approach to doing desktop OSes).
Time to upgrade my 12 year old PC from windows 10 to arch Linux....
Same mistakes as the Steam Machines
? How so?
Valve didn't prove Steam Machines, didn't really market them, and game support wasn't there, they just launched it with a promise to fix stuff.
They did the opposite with the Steam Deck, they proved the concept with their own hardware, they marketed them heavily, and they had a ton of games ready to go at launch.
They learned from the mistakes made with the Steam Machine.
