Streamdeck or steamdeck? Streamdeck hell yeah, buttons switch per active window. Steam deck on the other hand, hell yeah. It's just Linux. Can you stream deck with a steam deck? Never tried.
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I do not own a Steamdeck, but I will offer my hot take:
Medical professionals say that you should use your bed only for sleep and sex. Sitting/laying in bed at other times causes psychological associations with other activities that can interrupt its primary purpose.
I treat my gaming devices with a similar mindset. I have a work PC and a gaming PC, and never the twain shall meet. Not that I am worried about the enticing distraction of video games while trying to work, but rather when I settle down to play games, I want to do so with no distractions or thoughts of work. If I'm gaming on the same device that I spent all day working on, it'd be harder for me to feel disconnected from work, and my gaming experience would be diminished.
I'm sure this is not a problem for many out there, but that's my own preference that has served me well for a number of years now.
Depends on your clients I guess. I don't use mine for that since the corp world is so heavy on the MS software, and lots of RAT have mixed results on Linux. I just use a Windows machine for that and leave my deck for my gaming.
My dad uses one as a macro pad for his invoices and other documents/paper work
Keyboard and mouse, external screen. Its a decent little machine. Depends how heavy your workload is
Heck yeah, I use it for all sorts of macros. Especially in CAD, I'm generally off the keyboard and on the streamdeck for modifiers and tools. The per - key screen comes in handy when I switch into other programs that I don't use so often, so don't have a muscle memory for the keys.
My only take on this is, the more frequent you change between tasks, the less efficient you become. I obviously don't know what your job entails, but potentially if you can reduce the switching between projects, that may help efficiency and concentration?
In a way yes.
I have Steam Deck for games and overclocked raspberry pi 400 for other stuff. Rasberry is too feeble for any CAD-software, so I did all 2D and 3D design work for our home renovation plan on the Steam Deck + Dock.
All word processing and excel type stuff is fine with the rbpi 400, but it's build in keyboard sucks ass, so you need an external keyboard for anything more that occational web browsing.