I know this was talked about a while ago, that the Steam controller wouldn’t work like a “regular controller” without Steam. So I’m curious what drivers are there if not xinput or dinput, both of which require MS licenses from what I’ve heard (please cmiiw), in which case it makes sense for Valve to not want to include that in their controller.
I guess this is more so a question for regular Linux junkies: what other drivers are available for Valve to adopt that would allow it to work not just on Linux but also macOS and Windows? Not that I use any of these systems, but just speaking from statistics, cause most buyers are going to be from Windows I reckon.
For Linux, does the Joystick API even support the back paddles? Gyro is likely unsupported from a quick search.
Not the person you asked, but I do have the new controller, and it works as they described it.
How it works afaik is that SDL has a driver for it, even if the kernel doesn’t have a generic one yet. The controller also works in emulators without Steam running because of that.
libsdl seems like a good base. Seems like it’s available in Debian and in the main Arch repo too. That’s plenty good for Linux. Looks like it’s also available for Windows too.
Then what was the fuss from YT reviewers about?