• radix@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      It’s Sony, so they’ll advertise Linux support, then pull it with a firmware update in 3-4 years.

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      9 months ago

      I hope they do this, even if it’s just as a fuck-you to Microsoft. As long as they don’t actively get in the way of it, I’m sure it’ll happen.

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      9 months ago

      Would be nice indeed. Cheaper than what a Deckard will likely be (almost certainly in the 4 digit range) and no Facebook garbage. Though the wording in the article is kinda weird and almost sounds like you still require a PS5.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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      9 months ago

      Probably. Sony provided upstream Linux with drivers for their controllers, and have been for a while now. The controllers arguably work better on Linux than they do on Windows without third party software/drivers.

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        9 months ago

        It’s not arguably imo. My ps controllers worked way better in Linux.

        • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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          9 months ago

          I’m 70% sure that Sony just ported their drivers almost directly from Orbis (the PS4/5 OS) since Orbis is based on FreeBSD, which is POSIX-compliant. Windows is not POSIX-compliant, so they’d need to do more work porting it over.