I (obviously) hadn’t realized that. That’s awesome that valve has done that.
Though my point was more that there’s very little in SteamOS 3 that’s actually proprietary.
As for patching in drivers to a different distro for the Deck, for me that’s not a huge concern since I don’t own a Deck. I’d more so like to see Valve release SteamOS 3 for general use rather than only providing images for the Deck.
It looks like Bazzite is a good third-party option for that though, and I intend to try it out when I get home from traveling.