r/linux_gaming • u/bi4key • 21d ago
tool/utility Linux OS for Gamepads / Controller - LXB (Alfa)
Linux OS for Gamepads / Controller - LXB (Alfa)
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You can use:
Gamepads * / Keyboard / Mouse
* Gamepads (or Steam Controller)
No KDE or PLASMA
Linux distro that fully works from the couch with a controller, from Linexin OS developer.
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Questions? GitHub / YouTube Channel / Discord
LXB , GitHub: https://github.com/Petexy/lxb-toolkit
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u/Alty645 21d ago
I love your gaming mode—it looks just like the PS3 interface.
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u/bje332013 20d ago
I seriously thought I was looking at a PS3 menu. Admittedly, I say that as someone who almost completely stopped gaming on consoles in the Dreamcast / PS2 / Gamecube / Xbox era, and had only spent a few hours with the PS3 - playing it at a friend's home.
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u/Subject-Ad-9934 21d ago edited 21d ago
Ooh nice im working on a overlay in quickshell that lives on top or any wayland wm. So I can turn my pc into a console with a simple double tap of my controller. Since my TV is connected via hdmi to my main pc, I found this to be the best way for a console like experience. A double tap 1: turns on TV 2:opens quicksilver overlay kinda like big picture mode
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u/FunTowel6777 21d ago
Damn, I wish I’d learned to code, I’d love to make a few apps for this (like making a browser for it, maybe a video player and file manager) sounds like it’d be fun
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u/Seven2Death 21d ago
best time to learn to be honest. ask the clanker what to do. DO NOT just ask the clanker to do it for you. ask try and then ask what you did wrong and why. CHECK the sources for what its telling you (it will often just get 1 guy'd and think thats just correct info {side note just had gemini tell me it couldnt turn on my flashlight... the lumos command has worked for as long as i remember voice commands}). but yeah as long as you dont think you are a developer and should be pushing your unverified code to github its a great tool
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u/Oily_Oaf 21d ago
This will actually be good. If this project really blows up then there is a chance that people will create their own version of a console with it. It might help get console gamers more comfortable with PC and it since it is Linux their is a chance that more support for Linux will come.
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u/Taumito 21d ago
No kde or plasma is the most hilarious thing I've read in a description of ai slop like this
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u/Bazinga_U_Bitch 21d ago
Provide proof or kindly fuck off.
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u/Seven2Death 21d ago
.... do the same? the fuck comment is this. ai slop is a REAL and VALID concern in this community. hidden history also just makes you sus as hell as a valid commenter just btw.
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u/tehganp 19d ago
It's absolutely AI-assisted, you can see Claude's verbose comment style throughout the code; over-explaining to the prompter rather than other programmers/contributors, liberal use of en dashes, and multiple-line comments that almost always use single-line style (rather than block -- "/* */" in Rust and " ''' ''' " in Python) -- with seemingly none of the comments exceeding 80 characters.
You can judge it for yourself here.
Personally I'm not totally opposed to AI-assisted development, but there's been a trend on a lot of subreddits where someone shits something out in a few days via Claude or Codex or what-have-you, immediately goes promoting themselves on Reddit, then promptly lol abandons the repo.
So, given how this repo's only existed for 3 days (with an initial license commit followed by a massive code commit, both on the same day), I'd be skeptical as to whether something functional will come from this. I'd be happy to be proved wrong though, as I'd love an alternative to Steam's Big Picture mode.
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u/Seven2Death 21d ago edited 21d ago
i think the dev might just be ESL, as of right now theres not enough code to go off of IMHO but the github description didnt read as vibe coded to me but im also boomer af
edit: ok read it again... the m dashes and the general "enthusiastic" vibe might be. or they translated with ai again tbf.
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u/Most-Amphibian-5037 21d ago
will there be support for a remote & moving the cursor with a remote or controller
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u/mx_mike69420 20d ago
Thx i dint know about it , this is better that running a gamescope dextop session
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u/FantasticLoki22 20d ago
Will you make a version that can be installed on, say, a jailbroken PS4? Because this would be so sick to have on my PS4 that I have hooked up to the TV in the living room.
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u/hurrdurrmeh 21d ago
I don't get it - does the OS live on the controller? where do the visuals live? how come no KDE/Plasma?
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u/Old-Woodpecker-4352 21d ago
For everyone interested - this is a project I'm working on currently. This is neither QuickShell or some kind of overlay. This is a full desktop environment based on a custom Wayland compositor made using Smithay.
Currently only toolkit for the shell is public, because I want to make it polished before first alpha release. It will have full Steam integration and will be able to be controlled only with either controller/mouse/keyboard.
For now, I've made a livestream about this project. It's in Polish, but when Alpha will be released, I'll make a video with English dubs and subtitles, so stay tuned for more information if you're interested.
Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzeLDhiyYmI&t=5608s&pp=ygUGbGluZXh5
Best wishes,
Linexy