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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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I just wanted to play games with my friends (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by kortex03@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Me and my 2 other friends were planning to play fifa on my computer last night. I have 3 gamepads. One is xbox one controller. I use cachy os and I couldn't connect my xbox gamepad. I connected it actually but the laptop was not able to understand that was a gamepad. It didn't worked. I tried for 1 hour and my friends just laught ar me because of i use linux. And the worst part, if it was windows we would have no problem. Anyway, do you have any suggestions cause i thought cachy might not be the best option for gaming. I dont want dual boot my laptop, i hate windows

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[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone has to write these drivers you speak of. Preferentially the hw vendor.

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just did a quick search and yeah apparently there aren't really xbox controller drivers included in the kernel from what i can tell. I assumed it would just work cause it has been the case for all the controllers i tried, but i have never even owned an xbox controller so i never tested that. I figured such a popular controller surely would work ootb, but i guess not.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My XBone controller works perfectly fine with my Linux PC. No tinkering required. BT sees it and connects right away.

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, well in that case idk anymore lol, but that sounds good

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could be a distro thing. I'm on Bazzite which is gaming focused so it wouldn't surprise me if they had built in drivers for XBox controllers or something

[–] juipeltje@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, yeah that might be it. Makes sense that a gaming distro like that would want to make sure xbox controllers work.