• Lfrith@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    I’m talking more about software and program level support. Not whether hardware itself is working on Linux, which Linux has been good at.

    Like software to be able to update firmware on controllers, which doesn’t work on Linux. Controller itself will work. 8bitdo to update firmware and set extra profiles they only support windows.

    So more about what their level of native Linux support is so consumers get the same level of extra features as Windows users.

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      11 hours 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.

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        5 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.