A lot of older PC games can run just fine on modern phone hardware. I’d buy a SteamOS version of a phone that has some modular or built-in set of buttons and analog sticks. I don’t know how the app ecosystem would work for sensitive things like banking but it’s mostly a minor issue for me.

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    Probably not Steam OS, specially, but I’d love an alternative Linux-based smartphone OS.

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      That’s actually a great point. If it runs actual Linux, not Android, that’s a decent reason to buy. Valve might actually upstream the patches, if any, which would enable virtually all Linux distros to run in it.

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    Just to get away from Apple and Google.

    I love the trend towards Linux phones. I hope that gets a good enough foothold for me to get one.

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    No, because I don’t care about gaming on a phone. But I’d love to have numerous viable Linux phone alternatives to break the cartel duopoly.

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    So a Linux phone that works?

    On one hand I would love that. On the other hand it would have access to my steam games and that might be a problem