Love hate my steam deck - help!

I love my steam deck but my god am I absolutely fed up of having to become a coder and spending hours trying to get certain games to work.

After really wanting to play Stalker Gamma, researching deck comparability, buying it on GoG and following instructions on YouTube and ChatGPT to get it working through Heroic on steam deck, I still don’t have it working. Thinking of uninstalling it and starting again but just pretty fed up with it.

I think I’ve installed it in a file and can’t find the pathway. Can’t get into proton tricks anymore or the mod thing. Just confused and about to give up.

Anyone have the same issue? Or any advice please?