In the eyes of the average gamer, it doesn't really matter what are the technologies running under the hood as long as the games run when they press "play".
>It is 2024, and yet almost no studio targeting Android/NDK cares about GNU/Linux
The Deck always sees much praise on HN, so I'd like to point out it has its own share of flaws.
Major and minor annoyances I experience that come to my mind, in no particular order:
* Steam's own website is not always entirely functional from the Deck's interface, for example you can't scroll down items in the inventory. This means, for example, you can't trade TF2 weapons or manage/refund gifts;
* to my surprise TF2, a Valve first-party game, is not verified;
* not being able to alt-tab easily in desktop mode is a serious oversight;
* I feel the lack of physical keyboard in general, typing on the on-screen virtual keyboard is incredibly slow and inaccurate. As a workaround I keep a smartphone by my side for PM/group chat, but obviously this doesn't work for in-game chats;
* playing FPSs with an analog stick/touchpad/gyro against players who use a mouse is a frustrating experience;
* Steam only allows one online-connected game running per account: if you have any game running on your PC you'll have to close it first before running any game on the Deck (or play it in off-line mode);
* if you have no internet connection when booting, even if you connect later on it won't log-in on Steam unless you reboot.
>It is 2024, and yet almost no studio targeting Android/NDK cares about GNU/Linux
PC gamers aren't mobage studio's target audience.