Unfortunately it’s worse
As you said one of your other buddies wanted to get into building a PC but due to ram shortage it is out of reach, well how is that buddy going to get into PC Gaming with Linux (eg. Bazzite, CachyOS)?
Btw for those looking if May offer the alternative:
You can think of it like a steam frame kind of gaming (not the same but similar), maybe combine it with a separated from personal things gaming phone like Redmagic and iQOO and you are for the most part that is getting into pc gaming just indirectly and with the performance or like varying of approx. AMD Radeon 680M to 1060 3GB somewhere around here depending on the SoC/Model