@darkuncle

To be fair - that's less on the steam deck and more on PC gaming forever having the hardware platform shift under it's feet; the situation you describe isn't "steam deck" - it's "pc gaming". You're old enough (I think?) to have had to struggle with IRQ settings and sound cards and needing to find the magic combination that worked...

Let me ask you this - are you seeing this problem with deck-verified games? The only difference here between this and, say, the switch is you're being allowed outside of the curated section into the jungle.