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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The ability to update Xbox controllers, though when mine dies I'm probably switching to a similar priced high end brand with better joysticks.

And on that note, I also miss being able to assume anything I want to use or install is available for my operating system. I was looking a month or two ago at buying one of 8bitdo's pro 2 controllers, but it didn't support Linux. I never had to check if anything was windows compatible, everything either was or loudly said it wasn't.

Still not going back

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    They work out of the box, but the firmware updater is what's windows only (pro 2 and pro 3 at least). Not even a MacOS version of the firmware tool.

    The larger issue I found with them was that hollow knight and silksong didn't capture the triggers properly on their Linux version making them unplayable. Also the games would crash once in a while. You have to run the windows version with proton to get a solid experience. I read it was due to outdated Linux input libraries used by unity or whatever game engine it uses.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Ok so no worse than Xbox controllers (and actually probably better if I learn to use wine). Good to know. I should've asked on here when I was looking

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