interesting.... can you please go ahead and tell this to my Minisforum PC i hooked up to my TV and let it boot into big picture and resume from sleep etc. just like its a console?
Because from what you told me it shouldnt work... but it does... and somebody needs to tell it and i can't because i didnt spend so much time with it... you know i just installed bazzite and called it a day.... so i don't really have a big connection to it :/
But in all seriousness, you're completly wrong here. The chip used in the Steamdeck sure is special and does a lot of heavy lifting. But everything that makes out the steamdeck is definetely not exclusive to its hardware. You 100% can just hook up any PC, be it some minisforum mini pc, a laptop or a off the shelf gaming PC, install literally any linux on it and within a few hours of installing and configuring stuff - you can make your own "steamdeck". It works. Reliable, hasslefree.
I assume you just don't have any real-world experience with setting something like this up. Go ahead and try it, it's not hard and you will see that you just don't need a steamdeck.
It's absolutely nothing special to produce a console-like gaming experience with linux these days.
You really shouldn't believe to be correct if everyone else has the real-world experience you try to tell others can't exist
It's always the same, some says something factually wrong, gets corrected, the votes weigh in and then the argument of "you just try to dunk on my for fake internet points" come up... sigh
Alright, let's go through it point by point.
You didn't list a single reason why you CAN'T hook up any PC with Linux and create a "console". You just listed a bunch of feature that are available to every single linux distro and a bunch of feature that are in fact exclusive to the steamdeck, but are NOT critical to achieve a console-like gaming system. 1.1 "Unique first-party processor" - Yup, thats steamdeck exclusive afaik, but it's only special feature is the balance between TDP and performance. None of the firmware / software features rely on that specific CPU. I can "proof" that because as i said, my Minisforum can go into the exact same sleep / resume state as the steamdeck. But "oh here we go again!" you might say, i just listed the same one specific machine again. Yup i did, but my other machines do exactly the same. My NVidia powered PC and my personal gaming rig. Yes they all have AMD CPUs, i have no idea how good Intel goes with all this but honestly i don't care. I doesn't disprove my point in any way.
Touch pads - Yup exclusive to the steamdeck. Not at all critical to achieve a console-like gaming system.
Steam Input configuration - Not exclusive to the deck, available for every single machine that can install steam.
Gamescope - Not exclusive to the deck, available for every single distro that runs wayland.
Sleep / resume function - Not exclusive to the steamdeck. All my PCs achieve the same result as the deck.
Direct launch into Big Picture Mode - Lmao also not exclusive (how do you even think that?! xD).
Hardware thats guaranteed to work with Linux / Steam. Nowadays, it's really fucking hardware to find mainstream gaming hardware that is NOT supported by Linux. Heck even NVidia works reliable with wayland with the newest 555 driver. How do i now? Oh because of my frigging 3070 that's running in one of my gaming systems.
So, i just elaborated. Disprove me with real forum entries / wiki entries that describe that something that i wrote is not correct. Go ahead, i wait.... but i won't answer anymore.