Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April
Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April

Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April

PC when?
The handhelds are just PCs, there is no distinction.
Are there handhelds with nvidia GPUs? That might be the big distinction.
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).
PCs got SteamOS way the hell back in 2013.
But it's the old version. 2.0 not 3.0.