Because there are people out there that are intent on using certain information to harm you in one way or another.

Fair point :)

Not necessarily, steam includes a windows compatibility layer making many windows games playable on Linux and that’s how most steam deck games run. On stream deck specifically the battery life and performance is often better under this translation layer than installing windows and running them natively.

Edit: Just skimmed the article, this is exactly what it’s about.

Oliv in Swedish.