I had my laptop off for repairs recently, which turned into a nightmare. I think maybe 2 months in total I was doomed witbout it, but had my Steam Deck to fill the void.

I haven’t any experience with your particular programs on it, but as a desktop it worked perfectly fine for me. Well, it IS a computer, after-all.

I would hesitate to call it a full desktop pc. But since i have mine it replaced my laptop completely.

For your workload I’d say it will be just fine, except for the Office suit. You might want to look for alternatives like OnlyOffice.

I made it about 6 months without a PC using my deck for emailing, researching and online recreation. I’m writing this right now from my SD.

I did fire up my old laptop to do my taxes on but mostly because it had my data from last year on the harddrive and I also never found a good solution for printing to my ancient laser printer. Otherwise it’s just fine.

If you’re the kind of guy who never brings their laptop outside their home, then a Steam Deck with an external mouse, keyboard and display can probably replace a laptop.

If you want to use the Steam Deck as anything other than a gaming device outside of your home, you’re going to have a bad time.

I have been using Linux as my main desktop OS since 2007. So if the question is, can you use it as a Desktop OS for coding, browsing, editing office documents etc? Then yeah, of course you can.

you could try software like libreoffice first off, that will tell you how well you would fair using the steam deck as your daily. pycharm can be found in the discover software center

I use it as desktop PC. I learnt how to use Linux quite fast. Libre Office for office stuff, Gimp to edit photos, Firefox for internet. All You need is there.

The Deck DOESN’T perform as a desktop PC, it performs as a Linux desktop PC & that is totally different to the Windows PC you’re talking about & experienced - forget Word & Excel - it’ll be a Linux “equivalent” be warned.