The only PC I have at home is my professional device that my company gave me (I am a web developer) and I was not feeling confortable using it for everyday use or personal matters.
Now that I own a Steam Deck, I use it to play of course, but also as a Linux PC that I can connect to my Dell Docking station. I installed a bunch of software on it to work on personal projects (using Docker for example) and I feel like it’s powerful enough to handle everything I need to throw at it.
And you, do you use your Deck for other things than playing ?
Not at all. The steam deck works great as a pc :) It even runs entire virtual machines smoothly ^^ Installed Fedora linux in gnome Boxes, and performance is pretty good for my coding requirements :)