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.

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

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.

Get a keyboard and mouse, external screen. Its a decent little machine. Depends how heavy your workload is