Quoting: silmeth

Quoting: PinballWizardThis is a big deal- also, why on earth doesn't the steam controller configuration work on the linux client for steam? They have their own Ubuntu-based distribution this is meant to run on so why on earth doesn't it work in Ubuntu itself?

What? Steam Controller on Linux Steam works perfectly well, at least for native games. This tool is helpful for games outside of Steam, for those people who don’t want to use Steam client (the other way to get SC working for non-Steam games is to add them to the Steam library, like one would probably do eg. on Windows).

EDIT: OK, one exception to the perfectly well part. For some reason there is no force-feedback available for Steam Controller on Linux with the Steam client.

So when I was trying to get the controller set up for Dead Cells it just kept defaulting back to the controller's default configuration. I tried a lot of different things but the only answer was using the sc controller UI to configure the buttons. When researching why I was told basically that programming the buttons via big picture mode in Ubuntu just doesn't work; that was basically my experience with it too.

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This is a big deal- also, why on earth doesn't the steam controller configuration work on the linux client for steam? They have their own Ubuntu-based distribution this is meant to run on so why on earth doesn't it work in Ubuntu itself? I use this to configure itself but my wife is in the mix and it's kind of a headache that having it just work as intended would resolve. It works fine through this UI but it's kind of hard to have to go back and forth with a new game to identify what needs to be mapped where.

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Is there a way to get it through steam?

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My wife and I played this relentlessly on my Linux tower/projector rig. You and yours have good taste my friend!

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By blind coincidence I just played this for the first time on a plane flight; it's a great game.

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I've been rediscovering Braid and retro half life; I'm going on a trip and taking an old junker laptop instead of my gaming whip- and I'm preparing for a lan party in honor of half life's 20th anniversary I'm hosting for my birthday party.

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Dead Cells; normally not a style of game that would interest me but it's a genre-bending triumph. I'm also playing Into the Breach periodically throughout the day; I can't wait for the actual native Linux build.

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I would build a drone that's got some width but an extension on the front meant to clear narrow gaps I can't fit the whole body through; and if I had any aesthetic control over my creation I would try to make it resemble the landers from Star Control 2.

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Oooo, oooo, pick me!:-)

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