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If '25 isn't due to people knowing win10 is going to die, '26 will be when they realize it's dead. Started during <10.whatever Ubuntu but have been running windows because I own a nvidia GPU that I want to use to play games. I'm confident in bazzite to go full time this year but I honesty want steamos on my main PC. I've used it for however many years since first batch steamdecks arrived and I love it. I promise to be a fanboy if steamos can do nvidia egpus and vr headsets with less that 5 minutes of tinkering.
Steam OS is not, and will not be a desktop OS. Bazzite is the desktop OS you want. No need to wait. The future is now.
I've seen a lot of comments online of people saying they'll leave Windows 10 once SteamOS has general availability. I fear that'll lead them to having a bad experience with Linux because they'll be expecting a desktop OS but instead receive an OS that turns their computer into a console. There's a couple features Bazzite has (like printer drivers) which you might want on something replacing Windows 10 but you probably don't care about if you have a handheld or a steam machine
SteamOS (the deck) does have printer support now.
Valve does seem to be putting affort into making sure the desktop mode is a complete experience.
Doesn't it boot straight into steam big picture? That alone should be a deterrent to most people wanting to run it as a desktop OS.
The steamdeck has a desktop mode, which uses KDE plasma.