Can I use a steam deck to code things for my steam deck?
Yes! You could even download Godot from the steam store for free and it will always be kept updated to the latest version. Same for Blender!
However, since currently the Godot launcher is bundled together with the Godot Engine version and all that updates together, late in development of a project you’d want to avoid auto updates since it may break your project at unfortunate times by introducing feature incompatibilities though feature depreciation or regression bugs that causes issues for your game.
AFAIK a Steam Deck is a full Linux PC, so you can do anything on it that you can do on a Linux PC, including that. Whether this will be especially convenient is a different question.
- get a dock
- attach keyboard and mouse on the dock and connect the dock to a monitor
- go into desktop mode on your Steam Deck
- open up Discover and install applications
Basically a full fledged PC. There are some limitations, but for the most part you are able to code on it. You can write text and source code files, edit videos, edit images, browse the web with regular Firefox and so on. I can’t say if the Steam Deck works well creating games with Godot, but technically it shouldn’t stop you from trying.
