I can see everyone down voting you to oblivion... And that's sort of fair. But that's beside the point.

I was having trouble with NVIDIA while using mint early on and decided to switch to Fedora. Maybe try that once. Fedora has better defaults for nvidia.

Use the KDE Plasma spin btw. See if it works.

Keep on your "windows mindset", won't be very good on Linux i guess.

Maybe a fresh install could help if you made too much of a mess, who knows.

Still won't fix your problems unless you find a way to address the issues. Maybe post them here so that we could help.

Thanks, I might try that if a new install doesn't work

Thanks. Just getting heated because I really want it to work for me

Thanks ill maybe give that a shot

I'm just trying a reinstall. I'm thinking something happened when making the Bootable usb.

Nope I was wrong. A fresh install didn't work

No I didn't. When I installed Linux mint the first time I was able to fix everything. I needed to reinstall it and that is where this controller issue started

I've spent all night and all day reading documentation and trying every solution I could find.

Sorry to hear that Linux Mint is not working well for you. Unfortunately, things can sometimes still be rough when it comes to hardware support. I have personally also had issues with Nvidia GPUs and Bluetooth. Often this is because the manufacturers only provide drivers for Windows and Linux drivers need to be created by the community.

Regarding Nvidia and secure boot. I've had the same issue (on both Mint and other distros). After some frustrations (including a BIOS update) I finally gave up and disabled secure boot. Since then, I haven't had any issues with my dual boot with Win 10 (but I probably won't buy another Nvidia GPU). What makes you say that Windows requires Secure Boot?

No I didn’t. When I installed Linux mint the first time I was able to fix everything. I needed to reinstall it and that is where this controller issue started

This seems quite weird. Are you perhaps missing a package (e.g. steam-devices)?

Yea and the purists are getting heated back. You're obviously at a learning gap, and that's the firmware gap. It's annoying. But with older hardware it "just works".

I'm guessing since mint is Debian based it's not getting the latest and greatest firmware blobs, or it's on an older kernel.

What's your hardware? What version of Linux mint?

You might want to try some gaming specific distros as they are a little more cutting edge. I'd suggest giving Bazzite or Nobara a try. Bazzite is immutable, so if it's not working on first boot just give up and switch. But it is my personals favorite.

Both are based on Fedora which is a little more cutting edge.

You also might want to try Manjaro which is like Arch Linux with training wheels. It may just work on boot.

I have pretty similar hardware, but I do not have an NVIDIA card. Can confirm that Bluetooth is pretty dog shit most of the time, but I generally use wired accessories (preference). I did have some pretty good luck with an ASUS bluetooth adapter which worked better than the onboard one. Controllers work great with steam both wireless (save BT issues) and wired. I also run Fedora on all my machines so I couldn't speak to anything Mint specific but I have been running Linux for a very long time and have found that some distros have better support for newer hardware than others.

Mint is fantastic and that community does great work, all systems I manage that I do not own (family) run Mint. It is what i would recommend for any new linux user. However, for your use-case it might not be a terrible idea to give something else a try (if you haven't already).

There will always be troubleshooting that needs to be done regardless of the OS, as others have said, hardware manufacturers do not take (desktop) Linux seriously unfortunately.

Just a heads up, if you want that to be more readable, put it in between two sets of 3 backticks:

System:
  Kernel: 6.8.0-53-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0
  Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.6 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin dm: LightDM
    Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble 

Ah thanks. I will do that