Help all of my games seem to number my controller buttons
It seems that steam is the only application that understands what my buttons are supposed to be called is anyone else having this issue is this a driver issue
The xbox controller should work but the other ones might need a program to translate them to Xinput. Either way check your Steam input settings, I think you can try to register and remap your controller there.
I'm guessing you're on Linux, right? And is Steam installed through flatpak or your OS's package manager?
I'm asking because I wonder if Steam has installed some dependencies that aren't available system-wide. I know on Debian based distros you generally want the steam-devices package installed which provides a lot of compatibility for various controllers.