If its like the Steam Deck (which it is), this is true, I’ve installed non Steam OSs on my Deck to fuck around and find out, there is some kind of default mapping, the track pad is a mouse, etc…
Its probably the same or close to the default hardware mapping as the default SteamInput mode for a Deck, in Desktop mode, would be my guess, basically sans virtual keyboard as Steam does its own virtual keyboard via Steam/SteamInput.
Obviously works much better and fully featured with the SteamInput system, but it isn’t a total brick if you don’t have Steam.
Which yeah, should mean that it would be possible to write a fully opensource kind of controller manager/bus type thing for it.
If its like the Steam Deck (which it is), this is true, I’ve installed non Steam OSs on my Deck to fuck around and find out, there is some kind of default mapping, the track pad is a mouse, etc…
Its probably the same or close to the default hardware mapping as the default SteamInput mode for a Deck, in Desktop mode, would be my guess, basically sans virtual keyboard as Steam does its own virtual keyboard via Steam/SteamInput.
Obviously works much better and fully featured with the SteamInput system, but it isn’t a total brick if you don’t have Steam.
Which yeah, should mean that it would be possible to write a fully opensource kind of controller manager/bus type thing for it.