Comment by QuiEgo

I am very interested in the Steam Machine, because it will be an out-of-the-box Linux experience with (hopefully) no tweaking required. Hardware designed for Linux gaming from the beginning. I'm willing to put up with worse performance per dollar to not have to spend time tweaking the thing myself, similar to a game console.

I think Steam Machine + macOS laptop + NAS running debian headless is my personal compute plan for the next few years.