Issues on fresh install of bazzite-deck-gnome

To begin, I don't have a lot of experience with Fedora as a distro in general, so I'm not sure how many of my issues are just typical PEBKAC stuff or actual issues.

Regardless, after doing a fresh install of bazzite-deck-gnome using the bazzite v1.3.0 ISO on my Steam Deck, I've been having quite a few issues that impact the usability of the desktop mode that started pretty much immediately after installing bazzite.

First, the bazzite setup wizard seemed to be unable to actually get superuser privileges. I set up a user account without a password, and it prompted me three times to authenticate and then failed to actually apply seemingly any of the options I had specified due to lack of permissions. For example, despite selecting the "Hide GRUB menu" option, I am still presented with a GRUB menu every boot, and it fails to install Decky with Error executing command as another user: Not authorized. This incident has been reported.. It also doesn't install any of the flatpaks I specify either, saying Unable to load summary from remote flathub: GPG: gpgme_ctx_set_engine_info: GPGME: Invalid crypto engine for each flatpak.

Additionally, once I boot into bazzite, many applications like the terminal or gnome settings just flat out don't launch, saying it Failed to open file to remap file descriptor (No such file or directory).

I'm kind of at a loss here, as I've tried reformatting both the deck and the USB drive I used multiple times. I used the Fedora Media Writer on Steam OS to write the bazzite 1.3.0 ISO to the USB drive. I'll try to upload some pictures I took during the whole process, but any help would be appreciated.
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