It's not just people outside the community.

I've used linux professionally for a long time. I've also used it as my desktop / laptop OS on and off for about the same amount of time.

From a purely selfish point of view, I'd like to stop dual booting. 60% of my CS:GO time is in windows because of faceit anti-cheat. Beyond that, I almost need another OS.

Now I have a bunch of reasons why I think open platforms are better, but they don't matter. Pragmatism tells me that if enough people use linux to game, the anti-cheat problem will go away. There's other software, but wine mostly works now.

Ergo, I don't actually want a steam deck, but I really hope it does well. :)