(The “Windows” slices of the pies are entirely made up by Baldur’s Gate 3, which also runs well over Linux)

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, I’d love to get a VR headset, but there just aren’t even games to play on Linux, and the headsets with good Linux support are either expensive or hard to find.

    Hopefully that improves, I imagine it’s stopping people from switching to Linux.

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      11 months ago

      I’d really love a wireless VR headset that is just a display with inside out tracking and streams from your PC.

      There’s really no reason to have built-in computation unless it’s a standalone device and it just leads to a bulky and heavy device that still has a short battery life.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, I just keep a windows partition for VR. In all of my experience with VR on Linux, it has been terrible and buggy which is just intolerable. I gotta be honest, its not smooth sailing on windows either, steam vr has some bugs they haven’t fixed for years, so combining that with Linux just is not good.

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      11 months ago

      For me, I have been dual booting, but I have also had my linux set up for a few months now and was using it exclusively until i got my quest 3.

      I can definitely see the allure of just sticking to windows if one plays pcvr exclusively or if one just hasn’t taken the plunge into linux yet.

      I really do hope that support comes. Either officially or unofficially by a linux savant who knows this stuff.

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        11 months ago

        Yup. One by one the papercuts are getting resolved, so hopefully it’s just a matter of time before VR support gets better. Ideally Valve gets interested again and makes another push for Linux VR (maybe some tie-in with the Deck?), otherwise we may be waiting a while.