u/Angry-Nugg987

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I've had my steam deck for a while now and it's been one migraine after another trying to do literally anything on it. I've gotten to a point where I can understand/navigate it more effectively than where I started but every other day somethings crashing, not working, taking up space, there's a million work arounds that just don't work, controller configuration is a nightmare if it needs to be tweaked at all, some games don't run more than 15fps on all low settings, trying stuff like dx11 creates new issues like pitch black shadows, some games have image smearing and even if I do find a solution that actually works it's a temporary fix at best with a new problem later in the week.

Given all of that my question is with me having this much trouble on the steam deck is it worth it to just save up for a PC or is PC just gonna be another, potentially worse nightmare for someone like me?

I've owned my steam deck for a while and it's given me loads of issues overtime but today I'm just addressing the "other" space in my internal storage. I've deleted pretty much every single byte possible that won't break my steam deck, games, or force me to factory reset again. I've deleted shader cache, unused compatdata, unused proton tools, web browser data, and everything else I could find through disk usage analyzer that wouldn't mess anything up , and I even used the konsole command "flatpak uninstall --delete-data (app id/folder name in dolphin)" to clear up even more space and after all that there is still 26.8gb of "other" or "non steam", and 15.15gb of "shaders" space used up on my internal drive even tho I just got done clearing that all out. Any suggestions I haven't tried? I could factory reset it again but it would just become a problem again later.

Does anyone have a fix for this? I've tried every launch command, proton tool, protontricks compiler, force enabling/disabling ambient occlusion, force enabling/disabling hdr, playing with in game settings, changing system settings, changing performance setting in the quick access menu, updates, verifying game files, enabling my steam deck to use 4gb of VRAM instead of the default 1gb, uninstalling/reinstalling games I use dx11 on, and the shadows are still pitch black. The games I've had this problem with recently are pretty much any horror game but specifically subliminal, and the backrooms lost tape if that helps.