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Depends what you mean.
Using a docked Steam Deck for day to day tasks? Sure, a bit slow for some things (capped power budget) but it's fine. Did it for a while out of curiosity.
Installing SteamOS on a random PC? Lolnope. Nothing but Steam Deck is even tested by Valve. Just get Fedora or something.
This is the answer, I was going to write almost word for word exactly that. OP if you mean using a Steam Deck as your daily driver, you're probably fine, if you mean installing it on a random PC then nope, even if you get it working it will be an uphill battle constantly.