They like to urgently bang on my window to get me to open the front door to do the same shit

Oh I've never had to mess with control profiles on non steam games, so that is out of my depth. The steamdeck subreddit is pretty good with this kind of problem!

I've had pretty good luck using Heroic launcher and the Proton database for tips to get stuff running, but it depends a lot on which game we're talking about