Will they upstream those drivers to the kernel?

Where did you buy it? I want to buy it in the US to avoid the high overprice that they sell ir at in my country.

Steam families freaking rocks, the original library sharing was a pain for my kids. I’m so glad they are doing this. On my next trip to the US I want to buy a deck for my kids but I don’t know how, since it requires a US based account.

if they build a proper API for it, wouldn’t we be in the same place as now ?

It’s a controller with Xbox layout and DualSense features. If you look at Valve’s latest news, Xbox controllers are the most common on PC. So, I guess they want to sell these to those users maybe? Butit doesn’t have hapticfeedback, that’s a bit disappointing.

Personally, I won’t buy anything without trackpads. I want a true Steam Controller 2, the first needed an additional stick and a proper dpad.

Yes, devs work on Linux. Now, since the Deck, people (2%) are starting to game on Linux. The next battlefields are the desktop and the living room. The latter could be solved by a Deck 2 (and a new dock) with E-GPU support. That is trickier, there needs to happen a lot of things, and is much more complex.

People thought the same about portable, yet they did things for it to happen. If a company as inluential as Valve does the same for desktop, it could become a thing. I don’t mean dominate, I mean like a noteworthy event, just like the Deck.

They are risking Linux becoming an actual thing in the portable, desktop & living room spaces.