… Valve's Steam Controller Now Shipping Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel Steam On Linux In April Pulled Back From Its Record High Marketshare Valve Updates GameNetworkingSockets After Nearly Four Year Hiatus Valve Confirms Steam Controlle…
… Until the same incentive exists for developers to solve the key issues in the Linux ecosystem, the numbers will continue to favor the incumbent, and while unfair, it seems to be where Linux stands right now.
… This allows you to use the controller on anything that accepts USB inputs, including the Switch and Switch 2. Now, I know what you're thinking: does this mean you can use the Steam Controller trackpad as a Switch 2 mouse input? …
… Now, like PlayStation 5's DualSense controller, the Steam Controller is fully supported by the cross-platform Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL input library. This means that Steam Input can be sidestepped entirely while still allowing full use of the Steam Controller's inputs outside of Steam. …
… Valve clearly isn't immune to those same issues. That doesn't rule out the company offering its Linux PC at multiple different price points, or in some kind of bundle deal with multiple pieces of new Steam hardware. …
… The only issues that remain are some minor functionality issues with the touchpads and a couple of Steam-specific issues that also exist on the Steam Deck. …
… Designed and produced entirely by Steam's parent company, Valve, it arrived running a custom Linux version called SteamOS . This was an introduction to Linux for many PC gamers who'd otherwise been beholden to Windows, and it proved to be a stable, efficient, and clean OS that just seemed to work. …
… If your controller is exposed through the native Xbox API, through XInput, your controller is essentially an Xbox controller - and that means you wouldn't have all these inputs and be able to express this stuff. …
… Like, how did some of these inputs get in there? And what did not get in there? I think, like Steve said, every time we look at an input, we're conscious of overburdening the user. Like, having too many inputs is really not something that we want to see. …
… Developers that want to support the controller are free to use the latest version of SDL and support the device directly in their game/app, though we still feel that we’re able to deliver a more consistent and better experience for players through Steam Input for Steam games and supported non-Steam… …
