After beating Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, I decided to revisit the previous game, Yakuza: Like A Dragon. I first tried playing YLAD a few years ago on my gaming PC, but the incredibly long, unskippable cut scenes were super frustrating. Infinite Wealth had some of that same problem, but the story clicked with me a bit more and I’ve fallen in love with the mix of heartfelt quirky gameplay.

Plus, the Steam Deck makes the long cut scenes way easier to deal with when you can just pause and sleep your console if you need a break.

The only thing I’d be wary of in that case is OS driver support. I don’t have experience dual booting, nor with Windows support - but I’m sure other folks have gone that route.

I can weigh in on this - I’ve been using my Steam Deck docked and in desktop mode for about 6 months. The os is read-only, but you can switch it to RW… but that’s the beginning of your troubles.

1. The Steam repo mirror is woefully out of date, and occasionally while installing packages with AUR/pacman there will be an untrusted key (untrusted because it’s outdated) that prevents the package from being installed (or prerequisites from being installed)
2. The base OS+games rapidly consumes the NVMe. You can get a 1 or 2TB replacement for hundreds of dollars, but that’s basically your only good option.
3. Every so often, they’ll push an update that breaks your customizations - the OS goes RO again, your installed packages are deleted (but configuration files remain), meaning you have to do manual clean up before reinstalling.

The latter got so bad, I ended up writing an Ansible playbook to make my recovery from upgrade easier: https://github.com/pezhore/steamdeck-developer

That’s not including the annoyance of finding a monitor and dock (and charger) that will properly work with the deck.

TL;DR - you can use the steam deck as a workstation, but it’s painful.