Look at that new stick!
The original thumbstick of the Steam Controller was always a bit imperfect. I bought my Steam Controller on day one, but a few years in, the soft-touch material on the stick started to flake off. That’s gross!
Those flakes that rub off also don’t help with gripping the stick. It already has a convex-shaped top, which I like less than a concave top. It always feels like I’m pushing the stick in some direction but my thumb is slowly slipping.
After almost a decade of putting up with this, I had enough. I looked around online and found that people had figured out how to upgrade that part of the Steam Controller, and it’s actually decently easy and cheap.
Replacing the stick
It turns out the replacement sticks for the 8BitDo SN30 Pro fit perfectly in the Steam Controller!
The Steam Controller is held together with Torx T6 screws. I opened it up and carefully lifted up the mainboard, making sure not to harm the ribbon cable underneath. From there, I pulled the stock thumbstick cap off of the stick and slipped on the replacement one.
I now have a Steam Controller with a thumbstick that doesn’t rub off and is even concave for better grip!
I wonder if it is possible to use steam deck as a steam controller for my linux desktop. Anyone tried it? How was the experience and latency?
It is. I got it working wirelessly once for shits and giggles using USB/IP.
Dug up the comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/3637478
Assuming you mean to play a Steam Game. You just use the Streaming and look at your main displays I do it here and there.
You can disable the video stream too.
Tried stream play once on mobile long time back and it was terrible lol. Let me try it with the deck, it must have been improved by a lot now.