Hello everyone! I’m planning to purchase an original xbox controller and I don’t know which version to choose: with or without bluetooth dongle. My computer already has a bluetooth module, but while searching for information on the Internet, I came across messages with recommendations to use the original dongle instead of the built-in bluetooth module. Can you tell me about your experience of using a controller without a dongle: is it possible to connect it via bluetooth to linux and use it for games, how well it works, are there any problems, is the controller correctly recognized by games, emulators?
I use an XBox One pad without dongle on Linux and Windows.
IIRC, you needed a new enough version of Bluetooth. Mine is 5.0
And you need to update the pad’s firmware on a Windows PC running the XBox Accessories app. And use an USB-C cable for this .
The controller works with that cable, too.
It can only be paired to Windows or Linux via Bluetooth at a time (which is true for all devices that can only be paired with one host, since to them the Windows and Linux Bluetooth looks like from two totally different computers).
I use an XBox One Series S Controller and i had to do the upgrade as well and i use it with the xpadneo driver. Works well