Hi all. I am getting sick of the stick drift on the Xbox and PlayStation controllers, so I’ve started looking into 3rd party controllers with hall effect. Two kept popping up, flydigi and 8bitdo. If anyone owns one of these, how’s their support on Linux? Do they work out of the box? Just plug in the dongle and you’re good to go? Are they stable? I don’t ever use any other buttons than the main ones, so I think won’t need their software. Unless even the main ones needs programming! Do they? Thanks in advance
I have a steamdeck, if that counts. My 8bitdo pro2 works perfectly. It registers as an xbox controller, so it’s fine with every game. There’s an upcoming update for steam that will recognize 8bitdo controllers as 8bitdo, too.
It’s a Bluetooth controller, so it’s remote plug and play. Super easy.
The pro2 i have has two backpedals. You can program them to be another button on the controller. I have them as l3 and r3, for example. But i set that up on my windows pc. It saved that setting across platforms. I’ve heard that’s iffy to setup on Linux. But if you don’t care about those pedals then its not a problem. Everything works out of the box.
Edit: actually the controller does show up in the Bluetooth menus in the Linux desktop. So it’s safe to say it works even without steam.
Nice. Thank you so much. I don’t really do any buttons beside the default ones, as my brain can never get used to the extra buttons no matter how much I tried. I just can never use them for some reason. Very basic, so I guess it’ll work for me.