Okay so I was never really planning on getting a steam machine cause its pretty comparable to the PCs I've been using for the past 6 years have been fairly comparable (Hades Canyon NUC and Serpent Canyon NUC).

I HAVE been eyeing SteamOS as a main operating system though and with the 3.8 release I may be ready to swap from the bazzite I set up to see how I fair with VR gaming on linux. Gonna look further into it in a sec now that I'm off work, wish me luck!