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Wait till you try a game with support for the adaptive triggers, like Rift Apart, where the trigger will only pull halfway for primary fire (and resist being pulled further), and putting in more force to pull it fully is secondary fire.
Most games don't use it of course, but it IS supported and working.
Is this a feature of latest DualSense controller from PS5?
Yep.
A few games overdo it, and a decent number don't really use it, but when games do, especially with the precision vibration, the feedback provides a crazy amount of information without overwhelming the screen with it.
Yes. Though it's not a "latest" DS5 thing, it's in all DS5 controllers.
Wow, that sounds cool!
This is how I felt about my Stadia controller! Under Windows I had to buy some third party software to get it to work, and the rumble still doesn't work there. However in Linux wired or wireless works perfectly, and the rumble works too!
I love the DualShock 4 and DualSense controllers' support on Linux, but I'm not a huge fan of the controllers themselves despite exclusively using the DS4 as my PC controller. I'm perfectly okay with the layout since I grew up on the PlayStation, and in fact prefer it to the mainstream Xbox/Nintendo options due to being the only controller to have a touchpad, and both gyro and analog triggers, but the abysmal battery life on the controllers has been a frustration for my couch PC gaming setup, my fairly old DS4 controllers barely last for more than 30 minutes on battery now. The biggest thing holding me back from buying a new DualSense to replace those controllers is the fact that it, too, has terrible battery life.
I'm hopeful that Valve's desire to make a Steam Controller 2 pans out, as I expect that such a device will also provide stellar Linux support (or perhaps already does if it ends up reusing as much of the Steam Deck's input setup as it can), and would hopefully offer much better battery life than Sony's attempts.
Been using mine on Linux for a few years, love it too!
More or less yeah. My PS5 controller has stopped working via bluetooth (on basically all my machines) until I applied a firmware patch using a Windows only tool. Other than that, it's been my preferred controller, and the PS4 controller was before that. I don't like the internal lithium ion batteries in them though. I've had to replace 3 of them between the 2 controllers in the ~8 years I've had them. Xbox controllers just take regular batteries with is pretty handy. Though I've had the same suddenly-stopped-working-on-bluetooth-until-you-update-the-firmware issue on those as well. -_-