Calibration menu for setting dead zones does literally nothing in SteamOS besides make you think you've gone insane

[gerbil]

You have to manually enable the default 8192 dead zone layer as it is always set to "none" in each game's steam layout. valve plz fix. I almost had to RMA my unit before figuring this out. It tells you nothing about this and after searching for 2 days awaiting an RMA acceptance I was told by a redditor that he thinks its because of the layouts. my stick gets to 18-19% downwards drift but the 8192 value is around 20%~. and it never went past that. I would say this was intentional if not the fact that the Input tester reads the dead zone that you put in the Calibration menu correctly, so it displays the joystick as "0'0", making me lose my mind as to how i was getting stick drift in certain titles.

i'll post a lil tutorial on how to correctly enable a dead zone in SteamOS

1. While in a game/application's Controller settings (which you can get to by hitting the steam button while in a game and going left, or by clicking a game in steam and hitting the little controller icon opposite the Play button) hit "edit layout" under the current layout configuration.

2. Scroll down to Joysticks on the left hand side of the screen

3. You will see a sub category for each joystick, in my case, my right joystick was drifting if i'd flick it downwards, so i'd go to the Right Joystick Behavior category and hit the Settings wheel that is on the same line as the Right Joystick Behavior Text.

4. Scroll down to Dead Zones, and set the Deadzone type option to Default (or custom if your drift is worse then the valve set default.)

5. Your done and probably very concerned about how that slipped through QA testing.

I'd like to mention, my Steam Deck came with my right stick drifting downwards if i'd flick it, but it would only do it in certain games like ULTRAKILL and DUSK, and weirdly enough Apex Legend's menus, but only the menus. The game itself was fine. I tried Elden Ring, Left 4 Dead 2 and Minecraft and never encountered this drifting in any of them. it was so mindbogglingly weird.