Just a public PSA and was a little sad. I thought the latest kernel updates would address this. Until then, when you plug the official Xbox Wireless USB in- nothing happens.
The 360 Wireless USB adapter still works tho for some reason. 10+ years and its still kicking.
afaik xone (the kernel driver for the Xbox One dongle) still isn’t part of the linux kernel (neither mainline or steam deck kernel)
the gamepad itself works fine though, only the adapter dongle sucks
since you can also connect the newer Xbox gamepads via bluetooth, it seems like not many people actually care about it
You pretty much can’t game over bluetooth. Idk why they thought that would suffice. Maybe if you have next to no signals bouncing around the room you’re in it would be fine.
It doesn’t work with nothing else in the room either.
I’ve done it several times with different people. I never prompted anyone. Every single one took 3-4 plays of Madden (which, until the most recent one, worked perfectly fine handheld) to ask why the controller sucked.
That’s never happened with the adapter on my desktop.
Gotcha. I get that the newer Xbone controllers have BT, but:
- Two of mine dont (older controllers)
- the ones i have tried on have worse latency than Dualsense (generally only newer controllers have actual good BT latency)
Its just frustrating the 360 adapter “just works” but this newer one doesn’t.
I wonder if there’s any easy way to install something like xow on SteamOS
By the way here’s the Arch Wiki page for gamepads. The Xbox One controller section is 3.6
