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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/OffThe405 on 2024-09-17 15:03:44+00:00.

I’ve owned a Steam controller since the beginning, and i still use it constantly. It’s a wonderful piece of design, as is the Steam Deck itself. Almost everything that Valve does is great.

Why, then, does the official dock suck so much? I own prolly two dozen devices that output HDMI without any issue. It’s literally plug-and-play. Not the case for the Steam dock.

You can use the dock fine for a week straight, and then the next boot up there’s no audio and seemingly nothing you can do to fix it - the predicament I’m in now.

I know I’m in the minority because i strictly use my deck docked, but it’s a common enough use case that the experience should just bare-minimum work. It’s insane that it doesn’t. If i plug and unplug my PS5 HDMI cable into my TV, it will work just fine. For the love of god, make the dock work the same way.