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You need a driver for the controller, or an input library . It doesn't "just work" in this sense.
If you have Steam installed and the controller works fine in games there, this is the issue. Steam runs the Steam input library, and takes the input from the device and translates it into compatible commands for the games.
Try this out: https://github.com/DanielOgorchock/joycond
I had the same issue some time ago, and found that connecting with bluetoothctl in the terminal gave way more reliable results than the visual interface
What's your distro? And to a nintendo pro controller? I tried Bluetooth CTL but it gave the same error as the GUI.
Right now i'm on mint, but when this issue happened, i was on fedora 42.
But if bluetoothctl does not work either, maybe it's another issue that i had (maybe the drivers or something)