Indeed. Looking forward to the new Valve headset, which is just a normal Arm pc with a linux distro, including a desktop mode. Given that they push for upstreaming, i have quite the hopes to just be able to install any linux arm distro in the future.

Acid reflux

Software that respects your freedom is the way

don’t have video outputs and have an altered software stack to what’s used for gaming, missing all kinds of features and game specific patches.

True about those without video outputs. But in Linux, game specific patches are in Mesa and not in the graphics drivers for example.