I've played for years using various Thrustmaster and VKB sticks, throttles, and rudder pedals on Slackware, Funtoo, Void, and Tumbleweed. VR works ok too, though less performant post-Odyssey.
ScrambledLogic
joined 1 year ago
Thanks, good bot!
Yep, been using it as my daily driver for a few years now, aside from trying out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a few months. I've settled on running it with sway as my wm for the time being. I've generally been pretty happy with it. I like the package manager and the relative simplicity of the system, which requires a bit more work to set up but seems easier to understand/fix when something goes wrong (usually user error in my experience, lol.) The developers also proved that they could learn from their mistakes with a minimum of drama after the whole kerfluffle with the original creator. Most packages that I need that aren't in the repo can be had with flatpak. Overall, a relatively pleasant Linux distro experience.
Edit: Forgot to mention, in my experience an actually stable AND rolling release distribution!
Btw, here is a small void linux community for lemmy. It doesn't appear to be very active, but hopefully that will change with time.
I found this handy guide
which I believe accomplishes what you're trying to do. You can get app_id by running swaymsg -t get_tree. However, if you're launching within foot you may have to force a different app_id/title with foot's options so that you can launch foot elsewhere for other things. I do this with htop like so: foot -T htop -a htop htop. This sets the title to htop, the app_id to htop, and then finally launches htop within foot.
(Very) gradually making my way to Colonia with my carrier (been there before, just sans carrier), making good credits with exobiology along the way. Then unlocking some engineers, then gotta decide whether to go back to the bubble, or go the other way...
I keep coming back to Void Linux.
It's more hands-on and takes a little more work to set up initially than something like Ubuntu or Pop!_OS, but it's simpler and generally more stable than Gentoo or Arch and has a nice, snappy package manager. The underlying system is simple enough that in the rare event something does break, it's relatively easy to fix.
It's the first distro I've returned to since leaving Slackware a second time.
You're welcome! I should also mention that AntiMicroX has been a lifesaver ever since I got a throttle and a stick that have more than 32 buttons. Because that's the limit that E:D can see on one device, I just use AMX to map the remaining buttons to keyboard keys.