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  • Yes, I know I can remap, but I’m just too stupid to be able to remember that the confirm/cancel buttons are swapped so I’m constantly messing that up. It’s especially a problem on the steam deck, which has Microsoft’s layout.

    Somehow, when I’m holding an xbox controller, my brain just knows that the A button has to be the south button.




  • jsomae@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlHow bad is Microsoft?
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    Oh they’re very good controllers! The problem is that they took Nintendo’s button names (ABXY) and transposed their positions. It’s utter chaos, and very hard for me at least to remember that A is B and B is A.

    Playstation, by contrast, came up with entirely new button symbols, so it’s much less confusing that O -> A.

    The APIs for gamepad interfacing are a total mess now, with some based on button names and some on position (south/east/west/north).