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Even gamers nexus' Steve today said that they're about to start doing Linux games performance testing soon. It's happening, y'all, the year of the Linux desktop is upon us. ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Edit: just wanted to clarify that Steve from GN didn't precisely say they're starting to test soon, he said they will start WHEN the steam OS releases and is adopted. Sorry about that.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'll switch when 10 finally dies, they state Oct 2025 but if even less people go to 11 they won't really have a choice but to keep 10 up and running. Make 10 the last Windows OS ever. Never go to 11.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

But... Why not now? I can't think of a single reason.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Personally, my last holdout on my desktop is VR, and I'd rather not dual boot.

My laptop has been running Linux for years now, although I've been having some issues with it lately, possibly due to repeated in-place upgrades, so I've been thinking of switching away from mint to a rolling release distro. Although, I have to say, NixOS's philosophy is really compelling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have a friend that regularly games in VR in Linux. Admittedly, he's always faffing around with it to make it work. But he's also a bit of a chaotic person that runs Arch, so that could just be him and not a failing of the current level of support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Out of sheer curiosity is he using a fancy Steam VR kit like an HTC Vive or something?

I've fully switched over to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed at this point but I'm so bummed out my Samsung Odyssey is relying on heroic support from Monaco dev(s?) to even have a hope of it running.

But Windows is killing WMR too and they don't care, so OS really isn't an issue here. I'm keeping my Win10 partition there getting dusty though, because it still has WMR on it. =\

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Samsung Odyssey w/ GTX 2060.

He's using Monando built with Envision without the steamvr-monado Plugin because "it slows everything down".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Whaaat that's crazy interesting! Thanks for replying!

I know there's been a lot of progress made with Monado on these units but the controllers are still no-go from my understanding. Is he using the controllers or just the HMD? :O

I might just have to spend a weekend figuring out how to build Monado hahaha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Just an HMD. He's largely a sim pit VR user.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Time & effort. Everything that you do means something else doesn't get done. Whether that be gaming with friends or an item off your project/chore list.

We know that gaming centric distros are great for getting up & running, but it's still a time sink, and will require effort. Not everybody has a backup drive with their games and will have to re-download everything too. There's also a risk their favorite game isn't compatible with Linux

Windows 10 also works just fine. I still have it on 2 of my 4 computers (2/5 if you count my Deck), and haven't switched those over yet because I'm being lazy on one and the other is a perfect candidate for the SteamOS UX experience since it's a HTPC. However, I have done some looking around at other HTPC experiences and just haven't pulled the trigger. Which will be awesome, since Windows did away with their HTPC UX years ago.