In some games which have native DualSense support I found that I need to edit the Wine Registry and set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Services\winebus\DisableHidraw to 0

I found that in most cases the SDL map would work for me. Sometimes manually setting it for just the one game via lutris didn’t work. I found that globally setting this SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG_FILE=/etc/sdl-gamecontroller-mappings.txt in /etc/environment and then putting your SDL mapping config in that file worked a lot better. After you set that reboot and see if it works for you. But I don’t seem to need this anymore, I’m running Fedora and on the most recent kernel my dualsense seems to automatically work as an xbox controller in most of the games that needed this solution before.

I like KISS launcher, but not sure if it’s the right alternative for someone who liked Nova. Lawnchair might be more similar

Yeah I know, I do have it enabled. I force enabled it for generic and playstation controllers and I just double checked in the game preference to make sure it’s actually enabled for it. I think it used to work, but I couldn’t get it to work for Kingdom Come. Tbh I prefer the antimicrox soluction. There’s just the heroic+game+antimicrox processes running, I don’t need all the steam processes when playing a GOG game :D

Yes, but I’ve not tried them

https://doc.e.foundation/support-topics/parental-control

You might be missing some of the advance privacy features. I’m not sure… I’ve been on e/os for a few years now and haven’t checked out LOS recently. Have a read of this