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Me and my 2 other friends were planning to play fifa on my computer last night. I have 3 gamepads. One is xbox one controller. I use cachy os and I couldn't connect my xbox gamepad. I connected it actually but the laptop was not able to understand that was a gamepad. It didn't worked. I tried for 1 hour and my friends just laught ar me because of i use linux. And the worst part, if it was windows we would have no problem. Anyway, do you have any suggestions cause i thought cachy might not be the best option for gaming. I dont want dual boot my laptop, i hate windows

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

MTP is really buggy and unreliable. It doesn't matter if it's on Linux or windows. If you need to transfer a lot of data, I would suggest using the android debug bridge.

[–] gabmus@retrolemmy.com 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Transfering files via LAN is also a viable option, LocalSend is the one option I use and it's available on both flathub and f-droid

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago

KDE Connect is great for one-off "shoot file to other device" transfers. (Less helpful for huge copies.)

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