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Plenty of the Linux YouTubers have been rolling their eyes when people treat SteamOS as an option, so it'll be interesting to watch their opinions 180 (or not).
I roll my eyes when I see people saying they'll leave Windows when they can run SteamOS, considering there are other distros that are just as good or better. But the brand name recognition will definitely bring some people.
Honestly, the arguing about distros is a big reason I don't move to Linux. I want something well supported and going to stick around, but all I ever hear are new names come up every 5 minutes and I can't help but assume contributors are just dropping off left and right for other distros.
Steam being an actual company behind a distro gives at least an impression of support stability because they have a economical incentive to kind of keep it going.
Is any of this actually true? No, and I know in my heart of the cards it isn't, but choice paralysis is getting real, and 30k distros to choose from don't help.
If you pick one of the core distros like (Fedora/Centos/RHEL/SuSE) or (Debian/Ubuntu) they have been around for decades and will be around for decades more. You don't have to pay attention to whatever trendy new Linux distro of the week has just come up.