I think the elephant in the room is that endless year-over-year growth is unteneble and mathematically impossible. So as the suits get their hands on more and more, they are actually kind of stuck. That means e.g. reddit is unable to operate as normal, not necessarily because they lose money, but because they can’t hit unrealistic targets.
Coming from Relay for Reddit, Jerboa really doesn't feel all that different. I just wish I could open links in app or full screen pictures, but all that stuff can come later.
I remember when it came out and thinking "really? What can you even play?" And then when the Steam boxes seemed to flop, I figured that was the end of that.
But now I'm hugely happy they stuck to it. SteamDeck is a great success and I've been daily driving linux for gaming for about a year now. Tremendous boon to the community.
I've used PopOS as a daily driver on my gaming rig for about a year now. No real complaints and it was definitely great when I had an nvidia card.
(Though I am looking to switch to Arch soon, since I want to really avoid background processes that I ultimately don't need, and since I switched to AMD and their drivers are in the kernel, I don't need the nvidia help anymore.)
If you don't mind doing it one at a time, and you've got a different drive besides the NTFS one (i.e. you're not just looking to just reformat the NTFS volume), this currently works:
Format the new drive with whatever, likely Ext4 or Btrfs
Install Steam and make a fresh library on the new drive
Copy the contents of the NTFS steamapps/common into the new steamapps/common (or copy the individual folders of whatever games you don't want to redownload).
Go into Steam, and act like you want to do a fresh install of whatever games you just copied over. Steam will act like it's going to start from scratch, but you'll get "discovering local files" before any downloads start.
Steam will either show the game as installed as-is or will update the delta to the current version.
I use this method also for restoring backups of games to an SSD that live on a mechanical drive.