I hear you on the unknowns. I just picked up a new direct drive racing wheel, and I spent half the night trying to get it to work. The manufacturer doesn’t support Linux, so I have to use Boxflat. The wheel seems to work in there, but it doesn’t show up in my device list under Game Controllers and Steam doesn’t show it as a controller. However, after more research, it seems like that’s all normal and it’s probably the game itself not detecting the wheel due to it being plugged into a USB hub (which isn’t a Linux issue). Sometimes ime learning the OS is fine, and it’s the software that’s the issue. With Windows, it was easy to assume things were fine on the OS side, and it just comes from that familiarity.
I hear you on the unknowns. I just picked up a new direct drive racing wheel, and I spent half the night trying to get it to work. The manufacturer doesn’t support Linux, so I have to use Boxflat. The wheel seems to work in there, but it doesn’t show up in my device list under Game Controllers and Steam doesn’t show it as a controller. However, after more research, it seems like that’s all normal and it’s probably the game itself not detecting the wheel due to it being plugged into a USB hub (which isn’t a Linux issue). Sometimes ime learning the OS is fine, and it’s the software that’s the issue. With Windows, it was easy to assume things were fine on the OS side, and it just comes from that familiarity.