Gentoo for my workstation because I need flexibility, security and stability there and Debian stable for my Raspberries running all the services I need 24/7 access to.

I don’t like all the spin-offs of the major distros. And no, Ubuntu is not a major distro it is based on Debian and they are known for some really bad decisions in past and present, eg: snap instead of flatpak.

Unfortunately, yes. /:

I decided for the Dualsense, because of the ergonomics. Full feature support was not a priority in my case.

Does this game have support for the xbox 360 controller? If yes, you can try xboxdrv. It requires some manual config in a text file and you need to unload the dualsense driver before starting xboxdrv and the Steam client.

I have very good results in Elite Dangerous on Linux which has no Dualsense support at all.