• lightnegative@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yep, I’ve seen MS flight simulator fans basically create entire cockpits in their house with a crap tonne of screens for 180-degree vision and hook up all the 3rd party peripherals.

    There’s just no way this will ever work seamlessly on Linux

    • Skunk@jlai.lu
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      1 day ago

      Yeah, but Xplane 12 does work natively and perfectly on Linux and MacOS. So there’s that.

      But I guess if you start adding several joysticks (minimum of 3 for an aircraft, joystick or yoke, rudder, throttle quadrant) with assorted softwares it becomes a bit of a headache and most probably it won’t be 3 joysticks from the same vendor.

      And today we have the Chinese winwings that makes full glareshield and mcdu at acceptable prices https://eu.winwingsim.com/view/goods-details.html?id=925 so that’s another software to configure.

      And all of that is only for one aircraft type (Airbus in my example) 😅