• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I think it’s only Windows and Mac that are like that. Linux you can install just the steam-devices package for Valve hardware drivers.

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      9 hours ago

      The steam-devices package is just udev rules and the drivers are already built into the kernel, right? So there’s a good chance you’ll just already have the drivers!

      (…in theory. Debian critters may want to run testing+unstable rather than stable for the next while, if the new steam controller needs specially written drivers that won’t be in current stable.)

      – Frost

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        2 hours ago

        Probably. I haven’t looked that deep. I only know that Steam Flatpak asks me to install the steam-devices package from my distro for device support until I do.