• viral.vegabond@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    Just a point to consider that I didn’t see you mention: a lot of times those aftermarket controllers don’t work well with linux. The auxiliary/extra buttons aren’t able to be used. This won’t really be the case for steam controller since it’s made by valve and will have all the proper driver support built in.

    My Razer wolverine V2 is a prime example.

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      3 days ago

      Try switching between Xinput and Dinput mode. You can get the extra buttons to work with one of them usually (AFAIK).

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      2 days ago

      Im full time Linux these days at work and at home.

      I have gotten four different third party controllers to work, and really only PopOS gave me issues with them. All just are recognized and “just work” on cachyos.

      I just haven’t struggled with peripheral compatibility on computers really since the olden days when we transitioned away from dos and early windows to USB… and then again from 16bit drivers to 32 or again to 64bit. But I do know some devices are a problem for some people I suppose.