Hello @fcolecumberri, this sounds like Steam Input doing its job.
In Steam, you could try going to the per-game properties and setting Steam Input Per-Game Settings to Forced Off and testing how individual games react. I expect that the result will vary wildly between games depending on how well that game was taught to handle DS4 controllers.
I forgot to mention that this also happens if I launch the game from lutris using proton
AFAIK, Wine presents to the guest application a xinput xbox controller, which is why games detect it as a xbox.
proton 5.13x1 2020-10
I have tried with proton 5.13
It really doesn't matter the game, it thinks I am using an xbox controller.
even the steam client also thinks it is an xbox controller.
it is not that bad, but the layout is different on both controllers.
if I run other joystick applications like qjoypad or jstest-gtk or native games like supertuxkart they recognize it as "Sony Computer Entertainment USB Controller" and everything goes fine.
Also if I play a native Linux games from the steam client (I am using as test example HITMAN) it believes it is an xbox
is there any way to tell proton and/or steam to use the playstation layout on this controller?