Well, it's an order of magnitude less force than the "server room" experienced, considering the whole rack of computers was compressed into a solid mass.
SanDisk SD cards are actually rated for up to 500Gs, and with how light the SD card is, it can survive these indirect impacts more easily. "1000s of Gs" is just a completely random estimate considering how some of the other heavier internal camera parts were damaged (a circuit board connector sheared off).
I think you'll have an extremely hard time finding any hardware that supports Windows but can't run linux. With Win11 requirements it's much more likely to be the other way around.
Personally, every game I care to run works perfectly fine on my Steam Deck. I refuse to play any games that require kernel-level anti-cheat. It's officially distributed malware if you ask me.