Steam Deck as a left of field option with the best supported gaming outside windows and very competent linux machine when docked (might want an alternative OS such as Bazzite[0]).
Fan noise audible if it's permanently loaded up but that's like many of the knockoff NUC or litre PCs.
It’s kinda pricey compared to solutions without a built-in screen, battery, and controller. And I’m not sure how well it’d serve these other use cases, or playing games from iso files—I’m sure that last thing could work, at least in many cases, but no way it’s gonna be as straightforward for that as Windows. I also find the desktop to be so janky that I dread dropping into it to do anything (I do have one).
[edit] the fans are also pretty loud if it’s actually doing anything. Not an issue with headphones, might be otherwise.
off topic, but does anyone know if this[0] is considered best practices for Fedora-based distros? the Dockerfile format already feels like you're fighting against legacy cruft for specialized containers; for specifying a general purpose, desktop container, it seems unsustainable
Fan noise audible if it's permanently loaded up but that's like many of the knockoff NUC or litre PCs.
0: https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/