Logitech Wingman Attack 3 joystick not working

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Hi and welcome to the Ubuntu MATE Community

About your joystick:

  • There's no notification when you hook up something (not storage related) in this distro and there's generally no need to install any software for your hardware to work.

    A quick "Logitech Wingman Attack 3 Linux" search brought me this:

  • It appears that your device has been supported in the Linux Kernel since Linux 2.6 (ages ago) and should be recognized out of the box according to some forums. Here's one:
    https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?t=29217 you might want to ask there as well, should there not be joystick wizards among us. There are cases where the joystick is well recognized but not working with all programs (missing packages ?).

  • Packages related to "joystick" you might want to install:
    https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=joystick
    you might want to sudo apt install -y joystick xserver-org-input-joystick and reboot. They're not installed by default as you can see with dpkg -s joystick and dpkg -s xserver-org-input-joystick.

About your rant:

  • Linux is more plug ang play that Windows for the vast majority of devices as you don't require to install drivers 99 times out of 100 since the drivers are included in the kernel. Hardware vendors generally don't bother writing drivers for the 1% Linux Steam users out there, especially when there are people doing their work for free. I built a brand new PC two weeks ago. Didn't have to install a single driver. Didn't even have to install anything since my install (from the previous computer) works flawlessly with it. Try doing that with Windows.

  • I'm not sure you hate Windows that much if the inability to use a 15 year-old exotic piece of hardware keeps you from ditching it.

  • Usually, it is a good thing to check whether some piece of hardware is compatible with Linux before buying it. Hopefully nowadays, most things are.

  • «Linux» doesn't want more people to drop Windows, you're free to use whatever floats your boat. The goal is to achieve things, not to grab 99% of the OS marketshare.

  • Coming to one of the friendliest GNU/Linux community forums with an attitude like «I swear this is the sixth and last time I try your operating system if you don't solve my problem» generally doesn't help solving your problem. We're trying to help and do this for free in our free time. We can't solve everything and sometimes when we do, we don't even get a «thanks» or a feedback which can be discouraging to say the least.

  • While it is ok to be angry, we don't even know what release of Ubuntu MATE you're using.

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