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Say more. I need to convince my friend to do this. I just bought a Steam deck after seeing his garbage os (for a handheld at least). Love to hear more about how it's working for ya? Especially if you have any frame of reference between it and Steam deck performance first hand.
Better battery life, for one. Less background processes. There's also a big performance difference between a general purpose OS and one specifically designed for a device.
Well. As an example, no man's sky ran worse in windows. I also hated their armoury application