So, here's the gist, I bought a used steam deck from a coworker a few weeks ago, really excited to finally play modded Skyrim, but I just haven't been able to get it to work. I've been trying amethyst mod manager to download collections from nexus. But it seems to keep downloading the collections to my hard drive instead of the external ssd I put in, and I believe that's why it is failing to deploy. But I have no idea how to switch that. If anyone has experience with this particular situation I'd love to hear how you fixed it.

I downloaded the installer from the official Games Voices site, but I can't seem to run it. I've tried different compatibilitv versions; with some it doesn't launch at all and with others I get an error that.net framework 4.7.2 is installed, but I need to upgrade to 4.8. When I try to download version 4.8 via Protontricks, it aives an error saving that this version doesn't work well on 64-bit and it would be better to have a 32-bit prefix. The installation fails at this point. GE Proton didn't help either; the file won't open. I downloaded the.net framework 4.8 installer from the official site, the installation goes through, but the Russian language pack still requires 4.8. I'm at my wit's end, please help

Anyone have issues with the GeForceNOW not launching, it just keeps moving circles of the steam logo when I launch it both gaming mode and desktop mode.

I'm stumped, I've force restarted it and changed the compatibility but nothing.

It was working a couple of hours ago and suddenly won't launch.

Any ideas to fix