I use TrackIR.

To play a flight sim, I have to connect a joystick, throttle, pedals, and TrackIR. My throttle is a part of a HOTAS that's so old and obscure, driver installation on Windows 10 can be tricky. So I don't want to attempt to get all this gear running on Linux. So I keep Win10 on an SSD and hang my head in shame.

There's a little manual wheel under the LED display on really old models but with newer models it can be done digitally with the remote control.

Wait. Where am I. What year is this? This isn't about VCRs at all!

(Apologies for the joke. I couldn't resist.)

For steam you need to run a second opentrack inside the container. There's a writeup somewhere in opentrack issues for that

Edit: https://github.com/opentrack/opentrack/issues/1260#issuecomment-881908297

I have been using LinuxTrack, but it's something of a pain to get working right.

For MSFS 2024 I use the Windows version of opentrack, just installed inside the proton prefix using protontricks (use the exe.xml trick to launch it at startup).

I don't really do that stuff, but I suppose if I did, I'd use my Vive. You could probably pick up a used one for fairly cheap.

I use opentrack for steam games including Dirt Rally 2 and BeamNG

LookPilot might not be FOSS but it just works in my experience.

The most I've had to do once, for Arma 3, was change my compatibility to Proton instead of the CachyOS version. Other than that it's just been plug and play.

I don't know, but I really like seen whatever @bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de cooks at !diysimulators@discuss.tchncs.de , so just tagging him in case he has any recommendations