Was in a conversation in Slack where I was asked why I wanted a Steam Machine, as opposed to fighting to get things running on my mac mini or a home-built linux box. This is my reply, which I was asked to repost:
"I like linux. I don't like having to constantly fuck with things to get simple shit to work. I get PAID for that, I don't want to do it at home. I just want to web my webs and play my games and watch some videos."
The superpower of the Steam Machine, the magic bullet, the gold star is: it'll just work. Like macs used to. I expect I will be able to pick a game on steam and it will just work without me having to screw with settings or get a different driver or remap my controls or whatever bullshit inevitably comes up. Having one vendor provide the hardware and software and actually be concerned about the whole experience? Priceless. And if I want to go do something weird (like install Pico-8!) - they're fine. They won't stop me from doing something weird because their goal is to make money by having happy customers, not by maximizing profit-per-unit. That's damn refreshing, and to be supported.
Funny part is - I tried running bazzite on my minisforum pc. It crashes. Do I want to spend 30 hours troubleshooting it? Nope. Hard pass. See above.