The Battle for an ALL in ONE PC

I can't believe its taken me this long to ask this here, as I was going for a long time asking ai chats to help me with my "computer optimization puzzle" as it coined. However I am extremely curious to see what you all say.

TLDR

Using the legion go as a portable content creation/multistreaming (windows), or as a fully dedicated gaming machine (bazzite), or somehow managing both (going back to dual booting, and perhaps needing more storage).

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For ref I am a gamer, content creator, pc nerd, and wannabe techno minimalist. However I am limited by my hardware, and I don't think I'll be able to get anything new anytime soon. Unless I trade. I've gone down the mini pc bandwagon, and tbh the legion go is just that: a mini pc.

Additional pc information as it is relevant to my thought logic. I started out with a herk orion mega, which was a mini pc I was able to afford by supporting the indiegogo. As it happens the specs are very close to the legion go 1, with only more ram and storage tbh.

However being a first generation product it had its issues, such as you couldn't use both usb c 4 ports or else it would brick the usb c driver. Wow ok great. or it would ramp up the fans full blast upon startup (nothing open). Probably a windows 11 issue, but I had sent it back to be repaired. Sadly I'm not gonna get that pc back, prob due to tariffs.

Although I had reached out to the company prior to make content for them, and they sent me a herk pulsar (weaker pc that I am now daily driving as my main only option), and a boostr01 egpu. Ironically with usb c ports not working on the OG pc I physically couldn't record anything. egpu only works with legion go type device or the original herk btw (or maybe better pcs out there). I traded my xbox series X for a legion go, which to me was a good deal as I need a pc.

My point is now I keep going back and forth on how I should use the Go. It is a phenomenal device. I don't think its too heavy, and the controls feel nice. With the controls coming off it becomes an 8 inch tablet, which is fantastic for IRL recording at live events or even multistreaming off of the device.

the problem is the OS, and limited storage. Even if I get an external ssd it doesn't really solve the issue. I tried dual booting windows and bazzite, and I ended up liking bazzite so much that I felt I was running out of storage. I actually wiped it completely and put bazzite 100% on it. Made it feel like an actual console, and it was perfect.

My issue is that I feel that I am under utilizing it, as I am only using it for linux based gaming. Its perfect tho for steam, epic, and retro games. I'm only missing battle and microsoft stores, maybe ea but meh I can wait on mass effect replay lol.

I also now can't use it as a recording device, or as a daily driver mini pc.

I've had mixed luck using the egpu, both on windows and linux, even with amd making drivers better nowadays. A bit better experience on bazzite, but Idk how to make it fully utilize it. I digress.

The sub issue is the storage, only having a terabyte is like either mostly use it for video recordings, or mostly use it for games. You really can't fit both on the 1tb. Even if I offload often to an ssd (which might just be the way to go perhaps).

I've made a lot of videos about this handheld btw, mostly about retro gaming and bazzite usage on it. As well as comparing it to swtich and steamdeck. Although I'm not linking here as to follow the rules.

My hope from this post is that you all can help me decide what I should do. Keep the bazzite, and just chill on the idea of multiple use. Or something else?