Considering the Switch 2 (with those pretty joystick well covers to protect from drift, omg) and the Ryzen Z2 Go announcements, the low cost and availability of Steam Deck & parity level APU machines for purchase now, and the giant 1080p gaming install base represented by current gen consoles, it sure seems like low spec & 1080p gaming is going to have a pretty sunny future. I am hoping this gives small and medium sized development teams a chance to show up what is left of AAA gaming.
What are your favorite low spec gaming setups right now? I'm enjoying a 5700g APU system the most these days. Mainstream wise, I've been playing Elden Ring and Injustice 2 and Vampire Survivors. The last Indie I played is this beat-em-up / horde survival game An American Werewolf in LA which was pretty cool.
Bazzite fixes all of those issues you mentioned in your third paragraph.
Not quite. For starters, going by open bug reports and various forum comments, suspend and resume appear to be unreliable and buggy, especially with Proton - and based on developer reaction to at least one of the bug reports, there aren't even any plans to fix this. This is an essential feature on a handheld gaming device, which means that this OS might not suitable for this device category at the moment.
Bazzite has potential, but it's nowhere near as mature as Steam OS on the Steam Deck - and it might never be, because it's meant to work on anything, lacking the close hardware-software relationship that Steam OS on the Deck has.
Also, since it's using a different flavor of Linux as Steam OS as its foundation (Fedora vs. Arch), I would expect random games to not work or exhibit bugs that aren't present on Steam OS. With Valve's Steam Deck verified label, you can be reasonably certain that a game will work, but you can't with other Linux distros. I'm basing this on reports on ProtonDB and from developers who have released games for popular distros, but then got notified of bugs that only appear on less common distros (read: not Ubuntu or Steam OS).
This doesn't mean that you can't have a great time with Bazzite. It might work just fine on your hardware, but there's no guarantee this will be the case for everyone.
I've never encountered any of the issues you've talked about here, and every deck-verified game has worked on my Legion Go. Often better, as many "Playable" titles only have marks deducted for small text, which looks fine at 2560*1600.
As for the lesser used distro, I can understand where that creates issues. However, due to it's immutability, Bazzite is a consistent target to support with no real variations in system packages.