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Ah, I've ran into this. It seems to be an issue with an outdated SDL2 library in the native Linux version, which causes weirdness with external controllers, such as my 8BitDo Ultimate 2.
Force enabling Proton completely fixed it for me! I used Proton-GE-latest, but I've heard others using versions as old as Proton 9 that worked just fine as well.
I had the same issue with the same set up. This fix worked for me.
Well it only appears to happen on the Linux native version. I guess this is just another game that works better under Proton than native.
Yeah, very unfortunate. Hopefully they fix it quickly, it seems a shame that the native version is worse, but I don't intend to wait around for that patch while proton works fine.