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.

AMD APUs can run stock Linux.

All those SteamOS handhelds are on AMD.

> 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.