Yeah I can’t say I’ve used it myself but it seems pretty straightforward and very in line with SteamOS philosophies.

The steam deck uses KDE Plasma 5 as its desktop environment, so anything that uses that should feel very similar. I recommend bazzite if familiarity is something that would appeal to you.

Nah just the games and a cartridge dumper

Nah sounds like a waste of time and resources to make a game built on their multiplatform engine and then lock it down to one environment.

:.|:;

I play my physical switch games using my cartridge dumper

I run systemd with a different sshd service port and that’s all I changed

What do you mean? You literally just change the /etc/sshd config to point at a different port do you not?