Just co-signing this, not just for things like gamepads (understandably a focus) but even things like thunderbolt docks, eGPU enclosures and more.
Those two are high up in my mind as I recently moved to a laptop based setup in my office but would love more graphical power when needed. As it is, I’m having issues with the mouse and keyboard attached to my WD19TB Dell dock only working occasionally. Getting into the detail of updating it with fwupdmgr now
You don’t necessarily need Big Picture mode like on the Steam Deck, in fact i think your current Nvidia card might have issues with it https://docs.bazzite.gg/Handheld_and_HTPC_edition/Steam_Gaming_Mode/ You could use another distro like Fedora, install Steam and just set it to launch in Big Picture mode
Have you tried mainline just to diagnose whether it’s the kernel that’s the issue or something else? Fwiw using mainline myself with EndeavourOS which is easyArch, no issues pairing or playing with my dualsense controller out of the box
Well, I’m grateful for your complaints for off topic reasons. To bring it back to the thread, I recently built a living room gaming PC with the 9070XT and have been really pleased with EndeavourOS having easy access to the latest packages (like Meta 25) to be able to run brand new hardware.
I just ordered a Framework 13 and my natural choice of distro was Endeavour again. You made me realise I have absolutely no idea how I would approach power management, so maybe I’ll start off with an officially supported options whilst researching things like kernel tweaks, tools, etc that could help. Ironically, the officially supported distros include Fedora lol!
Initially thought this was about the Proton Foundation product before I realised which community I was in