surface-aggregator-module VS libx52

A derivative of checkn1x built on Debian Linux instead of Alpine Linux with linux-surface's surface-aggregator-module preinstalled to add keyboard support for various Microsoft Surface devices.

Ahh, that will be hard, however the linux community is great and has pretty much reverse engineered this https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-aggregator-module.

Other platforms, such as Microsoft's Surface devices have the Surface Aggregator Module whose role(s) haveexpanded to scopes such as handling input events, and over time, become much harder to handle on alternate operating systems such as Linux. Apple's T2's security processor, for example, imposes even more restrictions (and at a wider scope) than Microsoft's SSAM implementation.

I have been doing a bit of research and found a github page with an open source driver for the Logitech x52 hotas https://github.com/nirenjan/libx52 I also found that CH Products offer gear that requires no drivers, just straight plug 'n play, and their stuff is priced decently, though it does look very plastic / cheap.

Lookup libevdev, it has a wrapper around uinput. If you want a sample, check out https://github.com/nirenjan/libx52/blob/master/daemon/x52d_mouse_evdev.c

If you want a sample project that uses libusb, feel free to peruse my libx52 project here.

I built a project to support the Saitek X52 joystick on Linux. It was primarily started to teach myself Linux programming, but it's grown much beyond it's original intent. My end goal is to support everything that the Windows driver does, and then some.

OBS is natively available for Linux iirc so that won't be much of an issue. I can't really speak on your external hardware like the Saitek or Elgato stuff but if they are for whatever reason not part of the 'linux-firmware' then this might be of interest for you. As you might have noticed on Linux github/gitlab will quickly become your friend so it might be wise to learn a few git commands.

Since I play mostly in Linux, I needed something to set up the device, I found a C library (https://github.com/nirenjan/x52pro-linux) and a GUI app (https://github.com/leinardi/gx52) that could do the job, but the only python module was Windows only (it used a Windows DirectOutput DLL).

There's a X52 tool for the CLI too, if you want to script in Bash. It's on https://github.com/nirenjan/x52pro-linux