The Steam Deck is unbelievably stressful to use, for so many reasons.

most of which have not been fixed. Including Games not launching, Internal and Bluetooth Controller issues and so much more. (Including one where my SD Card keeps ejecting and trying to reformat itself, appearing as USD00)

Games having absurdly large Shader Caches, especially Non-Steam ones which fill up most of my storage. Some of them are unreasonably large such as a Lightweight title named Riddle Joker having a 4 Gigabyte Shader Cache,
one time it jumped up to 25 Gigabytes during play and bricked my device forcing me to boot into a recovery medium to delete it and make it boot once again.

Native Linux Executables have their own Cache for some reason even though when launching em in Desktop it doesn’t generate them, those Caches are unusually large which is a problem.

Steam Deck crashes and freezes all of the freaking time, sometimes when doing certain actions in games. Losing Unsaved data in the process, SUPER irritating

Quiet Audio Mixing, Non-Functional Auto Brightness, Joystick Drift (internal), Constant Black Screen issues which forces the user to put it to sleep mode then wake it to fix it or blindly navigate to exit the running title

Docked Mode Not Working, Bluetooth Controllers Disconnecting or Not working at all (Which made me and others SO mad when trying to Local Multiplayer for various games), My Steam Input binds randomly resetting, Input Latency problems, Frame Limiter problems (it not working or randomly turning on and off during play)

Random Noise when using Touchscreen or Buttons when Headphones / Speakers are used, Minor Lag when Changing Volume or when Pressing Steam / QAM, Which causes Desync for some things. Randomly the audio will lag a ton when in use (usually happens on Startup) its more painful when using Headphones.

Device never actually turning off when pressing Shutdown, UI Constantly bugging out, The device sometimes logging me out of my account when booting it offline (sometimes online too), Online Mode cannot be turned on unless you reboot, Achievements and game info don’t show offline for some reason, Major Stuttering (Occasionally happens in some lightweight titles from Steam for some reason)

I am grateful for this device but the infuriatingly humongous amount of Bugs and Issues make me want to put it in the closet and never use it again. It’s super duper annoying having to constantly either reboot or tinker with the device to fix it up.

I got this device for simplicity and to use it on the go and i can’t even do that due to it freaking out when trying to use it offline, the Two years i had it most of these software based problems are still not solved.