A normal desktop with non-soldered components is more repairable, cheaper and can also run on stock Linux?
The only selling point is the form factor and a massive amount of GPU memory, but a dGPU offers more raw compute.
> with non-soldered components is more repairable
This is literally the limitation of the platform. Why even bring that up? Framework took a part made by AMD and put in their devices.
AMD APUs can run stock Linux.
All those SteamOS handhelds are on AMD.