Most VR headsets don’t work at all on Linux, and for those that do, most games don’t work anyway. For those that do work, they are unstable, and SteamVR itself is unstable and prone to crashes. Even when things work for a while, the frame rate is lower than on Windows, which is much more important for VR games.
So as much as flat games work perfectly on Linux nowadays, it’s just not there for VR.
Nice, thanks. I’m on nvidia. I was thinking about the quest simply because it is so much more affordable, and newer than the index. Only thing holding me back is I don’t have a meta account nor do I want to make one, even if it’s just for the quest.
I mean, yeah I get your point and see it from time to time as well.
But, in my case, I have a 1080ti on EndeavourOS, another 1080ti on Nobara and a 3050 on Bazzite. Used for gaming, DaVinci Resolve, blender, stablediffusion and even streaming games to lower end machines. No issues on any of them, and anecdotally, better performance than the same gear on windows. The only thing that most recently popped up just a couple of days ago was trying to use Creality Print 5, it will seemingly not work with nvidia, but the previous version works fine.
My reason is that VR gaming is not feasible on Linux, so I need to keep a Windows VM to play VR games.
why not?
Most VR headsets don’t work at all on Linux, and for those that do, most games don’t work anyway. For those that do work, they are unstable, and SteamVR itself is unstable and prone to crashes. Even when things work for a while, the frame rate is lower than on Windows, which is much more important for VR games.
So as much as flat games work perfectly on Linux nowadays, it’s just not there for VR.
I ask because it works fine for me
What sort of hardware are you using (gpu and headset)? I’m thinking of picking something up soon.
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Nice, thanks. I’m on nvidia. I was thinking about the quest simply because it is so much more affordable, and newer than the index. Only thing holding me back is I don’t have a meta account nor do I want to make one, even if it’s just for the quest.
Soooo many of these threads go like this
Op - “I have xyz problem on Linux”
Commentor - “I don’t have that problem I’m using amd”
Op - “yeah I’m using nvidia”
Nvidia is just anti-Linux lol
I mean, yeah I get your point and see it from time to time as well.
But, in my case, I have a 1080ti on EndeavourOS, another 1080ti on Nobara and a 3050 on Bazzite. Used for gaming, DaVinci Resolve, blender, stablediffusion and even streaming games to lower end machines. No issues on any of them, and anecdotally, better performance than the same gear on windows. The only thing that most recently popped up just a couple of days ago was trying to use Creality Print 5, it will seemingly not work with nvidia, but the previous version works fine.
meta account would be necessary unless there’s another way to run developer tools