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Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April (www.theverge.com)
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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 2 months ago

gift-wrapped install

The ones I'm aware of are:

  • Bazzite - similar to SteamOS, but based on Fedora Atomic
  • Garuda - based on Arch
  • Nobara - based on Fedora

Bazzite is going to work differently from pretty much everything else, so I can only really recommend it if it's being treated like a console. Otherwise there's just way too much learning to figure out how to properly make changes.

Garuda being Arch based is a liability. I don't recommend any Arch spins until you're comfortable with both Arch and Linux, which certainly doesn't describe your average new Linux user. They're going to mess around with the AUR and they're going to break their system.

Nobara is probably the best option here, but it's maintained by one person who promises to keep working on it. It's also heavily modified, so getting help from the Fedora community may be iffy.

For Debian, you can get 90% of the benefit of the above by installing whatever release is in testing (trixie in this case, I don't recommend testing directly). Switch only if you run into issues nobody else seems to have.

Use what you want of course.