I'm confused. Have you tried what is suggested in the arch wiki? Controllers are easier to get working on Linux than in Windows in my experience... And I'm on Manjaro. The Xbox 360 controller was considered the default for such a long time that in many cases, other controllers' buttons had to be remapped externally to match the xbox 360's in order to play games. It should be completely plug and play if your adapter and controller both work.

I gave it an actual try and it's fine for intermediate users, but leaves much to desire out of the box for a regular person. No printer support out of the box... It's disabled by default, gotta install cups and enable it manually through systemctl if you skip that in the installer. And of course, most people would. Bluetooth is also turned off by default (Systemctl again) Samba 's turned off by default (Systemctl and package installation again, as well as some extra steps in the terminal) and it of course didn't come with a base Samba config file, which is required.

Manjaro's got a reputation and people love to hate it... But it doesn't have those issues and aside from the cases where you would absolutely need it on the most user-friendly distros, you don't need to ever touch the terminal on it. Pamac works really well, shows up as "Install and update programs" in the launch menus, supports native packages, AUR, Flatpak and Snap... and looks good to people who don't get angry at the sight of a CSD window. I use the AUR fairly frequently and have encountered essentially zero cases where a package wouldn't build on my system because of some Manjaro-specific issue in the past five years.

Edit: And for the record, I would recommend PopOS for anyone looking to use a stable Linux computer with up to date drivers and no nonsense. Arch based distros are good for tinkerers and I'd only recommend them to people who like fixing things and want full control.

... I'm a little sad this isn't an actual community.
Edit: Nevermind, found it~ (Scroll down)

Yeah, I've been on Plasma 6 with my Manjaro Unstable desktop. Not a terrible experience and I've yet to encounter an AUR package giving me problems, aside from outdated ones. Honestly, I've given Endeavour OS a try on my laptop and will be switching it back to Manjaro when I find the time. It's a fine distro, but it feels like it tries to give you an excuse to "bust out the terminal" once in a while... Which isn't my thing anymore.

Deleted my Facebook account twelve years ago. I recently got an Instagram account under a fake name and with a spare email purely to exchange memes and funny videos with my girlfriend, but beyond that I avoid anything made by that company. Especially their hardware. Anything Meta Quest exclusive doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah, probably never. Which does make it weird that they're taking the trouble to use the TOR network at all... But hey. I'll always appreciate any thorn in the way of fascists.

Patronizing? Sorry if that's how I came across. I just haven't touched anything dark-web related in over a decade and that's the mental image I get when people bring it up. And it's hard to get most people that aren't really into tech to use anything other than Chrome or the preinstalled browser.

For me that's the one, even though I've also been using KDE plasma for the better part of the past ten years. Very configurable, going as far as to have an option to disable CSD. It also looks like a proper modern app without being dumbed down.

Sheesh~ This kind of makes me dream of seeing a future Steam Deck (Or other Valve console) powerful enough to handle most VR games if they're going to keep on giving the Linux ecosystem a push for whatever features are important to them.

(And their written article is here)

I don't remember anyone mentioning Snap being closed source, but it receives many complaints for interfering with the functioning of common programs, on top of slowing down the execution of programs installed through it and is now being forced on users. I haven't touched any *buntu distro in years, but it always seemed half-baked from the comments I keep on reading about it.

Also yes, Flatpak is what I believe you could call a universal package manager. Package it once and it should run on any Linux distro since it takes most things out of the equation, save for the kernel and drivers. And yes, it mostly is used to distribute desktop applications. It's ideal for safely running random applications or older programs that wouldn't run through a modern runtime.

I'd say that a fairly debated topic related to transgender people, which isn't just transphobes attacking people trying to live their own life, is the presence of transgender athletes in competitions. Some will take it as a personal attack whether you take a side or sit on the fence. I'm not looking to start that conversation here, but yeah. It's definitely possible to hold a polite conversation about this while disagreeing on parts of the question. In a healthy space.