>>320299148
It's not that. My cord runs into a fucking usb and works fine. 
There's not really an extra step? Plug your link into your quest before booting it up. Turn it on and and allow it to access your computer, use your quest to navigate to your desktop and launch steam vr (i'd turn off the stupid home environment they have so you can easily access games from the void), select alyx then play. The only added step is steam vr and that's not difficult at all.