SteamOS was built for the creation of Steam Gaming consoles. And while they never quite took off as the hardware vendors wanted to steamos has not gone away.

https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/

But based on some reading SteamOS 3.0 is coming, and the way it is talked about makes it sound like arch is the thing. Although I am not seeing any hard announcement of SteamOS 3.0 yet

This si also really interesting to ready through https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck

On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 7:16 AM murph via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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From: Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
On 7/16/21 12:41 AM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> moin moin,
>
>
> It's Linux-based and they claims to support installing 3rd party software
> and even other Operating Systems.
>
> That'll make games even more dynamic since NPC won't respawn, they'll
> recompile :).
>
> https://social.gould.cx/@ted/106586487578801896
>

This is a *huge* win for Linux and Linux Gaming. Here's hoping that it
is popular and does well.

-Matt
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*May* be a huge win.  Haven't we seen a few Linux-based consoles come out and not really move the needle at all?  Wasn't one of them from Valve?

    --murph
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