I think you should try the 8bitdopro3. I have the 8bitdopro2 and the only reason I haven't bought the 3 is because I've spent so much money over the years buying these things and the thing the pro 3 does that I would want is have working back paddles that are mappable. I don't have problems with connection or anything like that when I play docked from 5-8' away and my controller is solid on steam OS. About the only problem I do have is that I sometimes forget to charge it, and the mapping software for different control schema doesn't work on Linux (which is fine mostly because I set it up once and forgot about it).