I don’t know, I’m definitely a fan of my deck, but it seems to me like the clunkiness of that setup would be a hindrance. With one of those LapDocks you would essentially have to find the space for both the deck and the laptop, and live with the wires connecting them, as opposed to just having an actual laptop. Then there’s the fact that the deck is running a tweaked version of Linux with all the issues that come with that.

For sort term use I could absolutely see plugging the deck into a regular old monitor and just getting by with that. For long term spending the same money you’d spend on the LapDock on an actual laptop (new or used) and installing a full fledged Linux distribution would result in something way more functional. Then when you want to game you pull out the deck, and you have a normal laptop you can use for other purposes, with actual portability if you need it.

If you need Windows for your use case, the actual laptop option is probably even more compelling, as it would likely just work right out of the box, with zero configuration required.