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Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April
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Debian is totally fine, why do you need a rapid update cycle? Everything you need is packaged with Steam. If for some reason you need something newer, you can always use whatever release is in testing at the time (use that release name, not "testing" itself) and you'll get newer packages with minimal risk of stability issues (a lot of people run testing).
There's really nothing special about newer packages for gaming. Once it's working, Debian will keep it that way.
I personally use openSUSE Tumbleweed because I like newer packages for other reasons (I use it for software development) and hate release upgrades because they take forever, but tons of people use stable distros without issue.
If you want some bells and whistles out of the box, I hear Bazzite is good. But any distro will work fine with Steam, and I'd assume Heroic and other launchers should also work fine on any distro they're packaged for.
Drivers can be an issue with recent hardware on Debian due to said slow release cadence. May not work as well on recent hardware.
Also, kernel upgrades. Unless the user knows about and specifically opts to use Debian backports, they're going to be on the same kernel version until the next stable Debian release. It's not the end of the world to leave performance on the table, but some people are picky about getting their money out of their hardware.
Using backports and upgrading to a newer kernel is fine for someone familiar with Linux and confident enough to tinker and make at-your-own-risk changes. Having to do that can be offputting for newcomers, coming across as intimidating or unnecessarily complicated.
A newer kernel does not automatically offer more performance. In fact it could be the opposite if it includes workarounds for Intel's latest CPU security fuck-ups.