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What distro to choose in parallel to steamos
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I do not think anybody has mentioned it yet but the closest you can get to SteamOS is this:
https://github.com/HoloISO/holoiso
That may not be your best install experience as a newcomer to Linux though.
My favourite distribution is EndeavourOS ( easier to deploy Arch Linux ). If the Arch association seems scary, my feeling is that the best all around newbie distro is Linux Mint. My impression is that the distro people are happiest with is PopOS but I have not used it. It sounds like you have.
Reading into your question though, the “desktop mode” of SteamOS is KDE ( the desktop environment ). That provides the user experience and is the biggest factor on how you interact with your computer.
KDE is available on most distros but it is not the default desktop environment on many of them. Ubuntu uses a modified GNOME desktop for example and Debian defaults to GNOME as well. Linux Mint uses a GNOME derived environment called Cinnamon. If you wanted KDE on Ubuntu, there is a project called Kubuntu that delivers it out of the box. The last disto I used that installed KDE by default was Big Linux.
As I said though, most distros offer KDE even if it is not the default.