the original steam machines had linux in a protonless time so they didn’t have much appeal in the first place

the og steam controller has hall effect triggers and I never heard any issues with them, some third party controller companies like 8bitdo have also used hall effect on their sticks for a while and I don’t think I’ve seen any complains.

that said, the sticks are gonna be TMR which is … slightly different magnetic technology.

TMR, not Hall Effect

What do you mean? steam input works as long as you have steam, your controller doesn’t matter unless it’s a really really rare unsupported controller