You do of course realistically need the steam deck dock for it to be any kind of reasonable PC experience but I wouldn't underestimate the power of it. Plus there's the added bonus of windows programs running out of the box without you constantly having to fiddle with stupid settings and set every program up which is something I despise about Linux.
Does windows run worth a damn on it? You can always switch over to the Linux distro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhfPfwBgNg8
You do of course realistically need the steam deck dock for it to be any kind of reasonable PC experience but I wouldn't underestimate the power of it. Plus there's the added bonus of windows programs running out of the box without you constantly having to fiddle with stupid settings and set every program up which is something I despise about Linux.