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Just an fyi you can basically get the full steamOS frontend as a session pretty dang easy with gamescope. I'm not talking just normal big picture mode either, like just the normal steamOS gaming front end.
I have it setup with fedora 44 kde right now for when I'm using my TV with my PC across the room.
The frontend isn't even the goal, I won't even be adding this at all unless it's an often requested feature. Currently you can select KDE Plasma or Gnome during your install and both ship pretry much vanilla except for the distro's logo and fastfetch. It's intended to behave like SteamOS from a back-end perspective for lack of a better word!