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[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Bro what? You can literally take almost any controller and it probably works in a PC. If it's Xbox, even very old, it works extremely well. You don't need a console, or any special hardware to use a controller. You didn't even need a good PC.

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

If the person you’re replying to is older than 30, this wasn’t the case for a good portion of their life. The family computer might have had some games on it, but mostly you fired up the console with its special built controller to play games

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

This, I use an Xbox series x controller (Microsoft) on my Linux gaming PC. Works well. xpadneo driver

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Just a question, where is this response coming from? I'm just wondering, did you read what I said or did you read what you wanted to hear?

Because it's absolutely bizarre to be "bro whatted" and lectured about controllers working on a PC as though I said it wasn't possible. In fact, to clear things up, when I play games, I play on PC and I use a controller for it.