Filed just yesterday, September 2nd 2025.
STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer hardware; computer networking hardware; computer peripherals; computer hardware and computer software for the reproduction, processing, and streaming of audio, video, data, text, and multimedia content.
https://uspto.report/TM/99370857
STEAM FRAME™ trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of computer game consoles for recreational game playing; video game consoles; video game accessories, namely, controllers for video games.
My guess would be they don’t want to spend a lot of effort supporting arbitrary hardware before they’re ready. Honestly, I don’t get why everyone is so obsessed with it. There are excellent dedicated distro maintainers that provide the same feature set SteamOS will provide —or something more suitable to your taste even. If you have a Deck then great, keep running SteamOS. If not, there are potentially better options for you already.
Plug for CachyOS with KDE Plasma - made switching from windows 10 to Linux on my desktop feel very familiar after learning in KDE Plasma on my Steam Deck. Personally I hope it’s deckard