Start now friend, it may take time to find alternatives for some of your workflow, also to find a flavour you prefer, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, etc, there is a lot of choice. I’ve been slowly trying to get everything setup for a while now. Only a few more little apps and things to finish the switch. sadly I will still need windows for several VR games performance wise, some are just too stuttery on nix. I used to love Ubuntu/Gnome but KDE is a better environment, from the reading I did, for VR with an Nvidia vid card

My linux usage is climbing as I get some of the final things setup, still can’t get my g13 setup as I can’t get make or cmake to work on the only 2 options for drivers. Several vr games work nearly flawlessly, except for the win api vid player that just shows the colour palate and a small screen with snow in place of videos (apparently a ue4 thing), others are still not smooth enough for streaming. Flat games… if I don’t see my task bar (or my g13 screen) I forget which OS I am using

When I see the steam survey I accept under linux and pass on windows insert “Doing my Part” meme here

As a VR user, some of my games work as well as the flat games do (my god did proton do a damn good job on the flat games to the point I keep forgetting what distro I am using until I look at the “start/task bar”) but some VR games refuse to load, others the visuals are extremely weird or darker than on windows (sharp light lines from ray tracing I assume or maybe dlss stuff), and some don’t have the 1080p crispness I am used to on the monitor/in video playback from windows. I am confident these issues will be addressed as soon as they are able, hopefully before 10 is killed in the back alley, til then it’s a duel boot for me.

Yes, I spelled it the way I did ;)

Has flatpak/snap fixed the screen lease issue for vr yet? Had to install the version off steam for vr when I set it up

That was a beautiful card, bought to use with vr, my gf is still rockin that system

Take a look at the OP pic, then look back to this

Yeah, make sure you get steam from the steam site not flat pack and if you use Nvidia, use the official Nvidia driver, also make sure you select compatibility in steam. Sometimes you need a different Proton version. Turn settings down and the fps will normalize.

Steam/SteamVR is where all my games are located, I like to have 1 launcher. Tho I cannot interact with the monitors from inside steamvr, yet, if i click on the window it closes unlike in windows where I control OBS and other stuff, also only shows 1 of my 2 monitors. BUT, when I get a chance the creator of Desktop+ that I use on windows suggested a linux app that does most of what his app does so that may give me the pc control I need since I do most everything in vr for streaming.

edit: I think some of my issue may be the poor old Ryzen 7 3800 I am using vs the RTX 4070ti super. The Ryzen 7 is having issues with a few games now, especially the VR mod ones like Satisfactory

So far, with the 2 games I have had a chance to try, other than having to lower the settings to bottom, they load and play if a little stuttery. With how Proton has improved by leaps and bounds I have no reason to believe it won’t keep improving at near the same pace. It is just that darn translation layer combined with the very high requirements of VR that needs to be overcome. If enough linux users go on the vr games and lament there is no linux native option we may get movement on that end. The flat games run so smooth right now I forget which OS I am using, compared to 2 years ago. I even have the disadvantage of an Nvidia card, at least the official driver is better meeting our requirements, shoulda gone AMD…

Then VR games will work at better than min specs. Trying hard to get off windows, mostly there. Except when streaming VR games, Kubuntu is my daily driver. All my flat games (like 8 of them) work flawlessly now that cloud is syncing. Just need drivers for one device and software for another but may just have to deal with the loss of a left hand kb, and 2 buttons on trackball.

I did get some useful looking apps recommended not long ago, not 1 will compile on my os and I am way to tired at the end of the work day to read read and read some more(I used to do more complex stuff 20 yrs ago but, well, I forgot most of what I knew. Why is “make” looking to github instead of the directory I am in?

Proton is is coming along great, I used to support Cedega to play win games before.

Will be checking it out

Will check that out, ty

Only the main buttons work on the trackball, left/right/wheel, the 2 little buttons do not do what I need. The G13 does nothing, the display only shows G13, I cannot program the buttons or anything else

Viagra is also needed by more reps than hrt is. “You can’t be happy in your body, but I REALLY NEED my dick pills.”

Have a pack of 30 dogs

Accidentally hit one

Wipe out pack

Start over

Free speech zone

“Instead of having 30 dolls, the kids will have 2 dolls… and they may cost a _bit more” - donald (paraphrased a bit)

Was someone watching the first season of Babylon 5?

Button then zip

What exactly do you mean by “Freedom of Speech”? What are you trying to say that would be censored? Is what you want to say actually covered by freedom of speech?

As you used speech and not expression I am guessing you are USian? This is what freedom of speech relates to:

"The Supreme Court of the United States has recognized several categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment and has recognized that governments may enact reasonable time, place, or manner restrictions on speech. The First Amendment’s constitutional right of free speech, which is applicable to state and local governments under the incorporation doctrine,[6] prevents only government restrictions on speech, not restrictions imposed by private individuals or businesses unless they are acting on behalf of the government.[7] "

Please be for both vr and flat. Metro Awakening was a wild ride