[NDxTreme]

This adds use cases to the devices. For instance, I am using my Steam Deck to type this hooked up to a 32 inch Monitor, as my daily driver on CachyOS.*

I bought the cheapest one, and upgraded the SSD. I also have an SD card. I use this for more than just playing games.

I would love to be able to just upgrade the storage and it be as fast as the internal storage. I could install a Windows install on it, and switch when it makes sense.

* Arch-by-the-way

[ThatPlayer]

I've considered installing CachyOS on my Deck to be able to use bcachefs for a tiered storage setup with the SD card. For automatic movement of unused files to the SD card over time, because I don't want to deal with managing it myself.

Though I also did the SSD upgrade and haven't really been bothered by space, so haven't bothered. I have that setup on a spare parts PC with HDDs instead of microSD, since that's an older 1/2 TB SSD.

[parineum]

I spent too much time writing a script to do something like this but lost interest/gave up because I really don't swap between games that often and uninstalling/reinstalling was a lot easier.

That said, I do wish Valve would implement something like this first class in SteamOS.