I'll keep saying it, because it keeps coming up. If you're working in the FreeDesktop, Linux, or Flatpak spaces, you need to understand this, even if you don't personally care about gaming or Steam Deck.
@cassidy Personally I've heard about immutable distributions for some time but never tried any. Now that I own a Steam Deck I realized how viable they are with flatpak!
It works really well on the Steam Deck because it uses Steam Input to bind controller movements to keyboard/mouse events. It's very playable when roaming the world and a bit more fiddly in GUIs - you need to move a mouse cursor with the right touchpad rather than it snapping to things quickly
As for other platforms, see the following wiki page. We're currently working on Minetest 5.9, one of the big changes will be rewriting our input code using SDL2. This will allow us to support gamepads natively with a better user experience
@gamingonlinux
hmm.. I've been contemplating installing this.. as I want to use my deck as a full fledge system (windows 10 for controller/anticheat workarounds with linux for everything else).. On one hand steamos is built with the deck but on the other Bazzite is more stable and up-to-date without missing features... it's a tough decision. since this os can be dualbooted and play waydroid..
Von den ersten Versionen eines Steam-Clients für Linux über Proton, das #SteamDeck und ausgefeilte Versionen von Tools wie #HeroicGamesLauncher oder #Lutris war es ein langer Weg. Die letzten zehn Jahre ist viel passiert im Linux-Gaming, wir haben den aktuellen Stand aufgeschrieben und er kann sich sehen lassen.
@gamingonlinux you seem to know this machine well. I really want to play some retro pc games like descent, heretic, doom, rise of the triad. Is the Steamdeck something I should be interested in?
People who dig the #SteamDeck: here's @bkardell and @Meyerweb from @igalia, who I did not know were doing lots of work on the Deck, talking to other Igalia people who are doing lots of work to make the Steam Deck better. Interesting podcast!