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I've actually done a tad bit of video editing on my Deck through Kdenlive and in short, it works.
I think a general issue is that Kdenlive tends to crash in of itself a bit. The biggest limitor is probably the lack of GPU based hardware exporting available for the Decks APU in Kdenlive. As well as the 16GB of RAM.
What I specifically did was load in a video file about an hours length, cut it down and overlay some recorded audio to it, sync it up and export. It was sluggish, froze every now and then and crashed a couple of times. RAM and CPU usage was continuously at high. If I remember correctly, the video was in 4K recorded on an iPhone in HDR. At least the source video was, I can't recall if I scaled it down to 1080p or not.
I do want to mention that I'm not running SteamOS on my Deck however. I believe at the time I was running Bazzite and now I'm running Nobara. I haven't tried doing this on SteamOS but I would imagine the experience would be more or less the same.
Will it work? Yes, kinda. Will it be as good as an experience as running it on a full fledged desktop with more RAM, higher end CPU and a somewhat modern dedicated GPU? No, it won't. It'll work in a pinch or if you have time and patience.
Thank you for your answer! This does help me a lot to make a decision. Thank you very much!
I'm glad my tinkering could be of use to you!
I run my Deck as my primary computer and have been for about a year or so now. About 10 months without any Windows computer or alternative computer around. It's been shugging and tugging away at all my projects where I do audio editing, gaming, voice chat, using my Sony camera as a webcam, editing sheet music through MuseScore, intensive web development and managing my servers.
There's a lot that can be done with the Deck and I'm sure I'm in the 1% if not less of people using it as intensively as I am. I've made sure my Deck has a lock screen and has full disk encryption through LUKS as well which both is important to me since I work a lot on it when I'm away from home.
If you have any more thoughts regarding using the Deck as more of a PC I'll happily share some tips and answer any questions!