The Steam Deck models itself much more after handhelds and consoles, anyway.

Sure, you’re not getting The Most Detail And Power Available Right This Moment, but having a stable target for developers means getting a healthy library for players. It builds value for the customer, who won’t want to swap out consoles super frequently to keep up with devs who’ll stop targeting old hardware.

Snaps are a relatively recent way of packaging application installations in certain flavors of Linux. Steam is Valve’s game distribution platform (amongst other things).

There’s an unofficial Snap package to install Steam and it apparently doesn’t work so good

Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and capitalist hardware.

Fire at will, commander.

On the other hand… Super Duper Key.