Does anything stop you from putting Linux on it? (Of course it might be hard to compete with the “just works” Steam Deck)

I am interested in little PC’s for “hacking” in the go (like programming an Arduino at a Hackathon) and it looks like I’ll be repurposing a Dell Latitude retired from work for that, probably with Linux. not least because it doesn’t have a free Windows license and I have enough Windows computers anyway. If I wanna use Windows I can RDP into my big machine.

A machine like the Aya would be good fot his job and probably sexier than the Latitude.