Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers
moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoWhat do you mean lacking support for keyboards and controllers? Maybe for doing weird custom stuff like RGB, but for anything else they’re standard HIDs and will work with anything, no “support” needed. You can plug a USB keyboard and mouse into your phone and it’ll work if you want.
I’m currently playing Clair Obscur on linux through steam with a cheap fake xbox controller I got off ebay, and it works perfectly. I’m using an Nvidia card too, and I haven’t had to do any customisation or anything.
Easy anti-cheat won’t work, so Valorant/Fortnite, etc. are out of the question for now, but any games that don’t use that kind of malware are probably fine.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m talking more about software and program level support. Not whether hardware itself is working on Linux.
Like software to be able to update firmware on controllers, which doesn’t work on Linux. Controller itself will work. 8bitdo to update firmware they only support windows.
moopet@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ah, makes sense. You’re right about firmware updaters, and I don’t know if I’d trust one running under Wine anyway tbh. Who knows what weird system calls they make assuming you’re running Windows 95 or whatever.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Yeah, when I updated my controller I did it on another device I have windows dual booted on with nothing important on it just for that purpose.