Atomic distros would do it for me I think. Something very stable.

Course atomic distros make me think of Debian more than anything ;)

What's interesting to me in retrospect is how this might have been an intentional stepping stone on the way to the Steam Deck; they got to dip their toes in hardware at a time when the company didn't have much experience in it, as well as a lot more testing data for their controller support that would become an important part of how users interact with the Steam Deck. When I first got a Steam Deck, I realized how many years they probably had been planning something like this given all of the long-term bets like this that it capitalized on (heavy investment into Linux gaming being another big one). It took me until their more recent official support for other handheld gaming devices on SteamOS to consider that if they planned that far ahead for the Steam Deck, there's no reason that wouldn't have to be their ultimate end-goal, and they could have similarly long-term plans still in motion that the Steam Deck itself could just be a stepping stone to. My current theory is that they might not even care about being in hardware in the long run as much as making SteamOS the de facto default for the emerging market of "handheld desktop" gaming consoles (or whatever the term is for devices like the Steam Deck). I could easily imagine that getting the Steam Deck out first as an established player being a strategy to try to prevent what presumably would otherwise be a Microsoft-dominated future for the market in the same way that they've been basically the only player in traditional desktop gaming systems for so long, and using Microsoft's own playbook to do it by just providing the OS and not the hardware. Interestingly, the Steam Deck is remarkably open to being used pretty much however I want (i.e. giving me a full-fledged desktop mode where I can install whatever I want and letting me set up games I didn't get from Steam to run in the more streamlined gaming mode in the exact same way I already do it on my Linux desktops), so my perception is that in the long run they're expecting for the investments to pay off in terms of the revenue from game purchases made by users of these devices, since buying from Steam is still the most streamlined option even though playing games from anywhere else is still supported. Considering the fringe benefits all this has had in terms of making Linux desktop gaming a pretty viable alternative nowadays and that their support for using the hardware however I want is better than what the vendors of the existing major players in mobile devices offer today, it's hard for me to be unhappy with the idea of a future where this plan succeeds.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Link

Android TV sticks scare me, but the Apple TV seems... okay.

Any issue for streaming DRM content like netflix, or decoding high nitrate h265?

Thank you !

If people still use the 10 foot UI despite the bad remote, I think the 10 foot UI must be the right idea. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure apple will never share those usage stats with us.

Vote with your wallet and dollars.

Sail the high seas.

In fact needing to access a streaming service, instead of a local server, sounds like a feature people don't need, even if it would be nice.

If anything, things seem to have regressed slightly, since Steam removed the one good 10ft browser I'm aware of during the Steam Deck rollout.