@jihadjimmy @dushman @Suiseiseki @meso
> You can install whatever OS you want on it (it's a PC after all)
> There's spare parts and maintenance manual so about as good as a thinkpad, if not better
> Any modern hardware but PCs are either vendor-locked or crippled with non-portability (almost everything mips, arm, riscv, … out there; rip sparc), or crazy expensive (Talos workstations)
> Valve funds a lot of the Linux ecosystem, specially on the graphics side of things, also has some of it's software being libre (say gamescope, the compositor for the steam deck, lol)
> Steam store itself has libre games and utilities (say krita)

I'm not saying Steam is good, it's a dogshit platform. But none of what you wrote actually holds, get some fucking integrity.
(And it's better than literally any smart-ass phone out there, which was you know, the origin of the steam deck mention. That includes Pine64 "I won't fund community anymore, or allow non-Manjaro" Pinephone, and the bad joke that's the Librem)