What Valve (and Codeweavers, Wine's dev team et al.) have done is nothing short of miraculous. In the article Ars themselves link re Steamboxes, the ending paragraph has this bit, which I find speaks ...
Valve has confirmed a few details about the Steam Machine's GPU: it has 28 compute units (CUs), hewn from the RDNA 3 architecture, and a clock speed around 2.4–2.5 GHz. It has a TDP of around 110–130 ...
That's the thing though. Linux isn't that much more "trimmed down" when you're running a distro like Fedora KDE Ediition. It's a full desktop. Sure, stuff isn't where Windows puts it and you'll need ...