Agreed. Targeting handhelds with good controller support and also no DRM (or at the least, Proton friendly) is more important to me as a consumer than a native Linux version.

That part came from talking about Valve opening SteamOS up to more than just the Steam Deck or other OEM partner devices.

Valve will “let you” download an image and slap it on a desktop, laptop, smart toaster, or any other x86 based computer.

At the very least, the big laptop manufacturers making Linux handhelds means just from a cost cutting and resource perspective, there’s a good chance laptop and desktop hardware support improves even further just because they reuse parts across devices.

Hell, NVIDIA is probably watching this and wishing they’d supported Linux better in the past because now they have some catching up to do.