Unless Valve has said otherwise, I doubt SteamOS is going to be released for desktop. SteamOS is basically just Arch + kde plasma but with tweaks targeting the SteamDeck hardware
Is there really a significant difference between steamOS and using big picture mode + proton? I've had hardly any issues using steam on Ubuntu to play windows only games. Even Microsoft flight sim works despite trying it's hardest to act like part of windows.
there not many easy results for "arch based distro with KDE how to [do thing]" but there are a lot of Steamdeck tutorials and a SteamOS desktop version would make it better
My yearly "I should try Linux again" cycle would probably stay permanently if Valve makes the OS
everyone starts somewhere, it stars mindless then they eventually learn slowly but surely with a lot of mistakes. I did. I nuked my OS several times but now know a lot more about Linux because of it.
If you apply that thinking then 9/10ths of the Linux community wouldn't have ever started using it.
Hell 99% of the non tech people I know IRL wouldn't be able to send a text if that line of thinking is extended to them.
Oh huh, Bazzite's based on Fedora Atomic. What's the one that's just Windows under the hood? I remember being surprised, "why would people want to install THAT on a Steam Deck"?