Lots of off topic comment threads so I don't mind adding my own: going to make the Linux dive here soon and just had a general question on VR. I recently got a mostlySteam setup (sensors / controllers) with a Vive Pro 2 headset. Overall is VR supported? Is it limited to certain headsets? I was thinking of getting a Bigscreen Beyond 2, if that makes a difference. Any info appreciated.
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In my personal experience, the only games that don't work are those that explicitly choose not to :
- Fortnite
- PUBG
- Roblox
- Valorant
I'm not much into competitive games myself, so the only one that's inconvenient in this list to me is Roblox. There are a few really fun games on their platform that I wish I could play on Steam Deck, as used to be possible.
You can play Roblox through Sober. It runs the Android version directly so it's pretty similar to what an official port would be, in terms of performance
Sober is awesome, and I can actually have Roblox LAN parties with my son thanks to it.
Not too surprisingly, you can add League of Legends (another Riot games title) to the list. While I'm not a fan of kernel level anticheat, I do love most of these games, and it's really frustrating how I don't see any change in the future. After more than a year of struggling, I finally managed to get my Mint working (turns out my old mobo was faulty), but it looks like I will still have to keep Windows for basically all multiplayer titles I play.
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I have a 3090 and heard nvidia gpus dont do very well for Linux gaming if anyone wants to quell my fears and get me off Windows
I have a 3070 and it runs the majority of games better than windows. The "Nvidia doesnt work good for linux" statement has become dated. Nvidia has become much better about giving support to other platforms, I think it has alot to do with being flexible for the ai market
I have a brand-new lenovo workstation with an nVidia RTX card. Works great. Vulcan calculates the shader cache on first run of a game that takes a minute to run through, but after that the game runs great. I'm on tumbleweed, the only issue I had past week was kernel moved ahead but the nvidia driver wasn't ready right away. Just meant booting the old kernel in the boot menu till that all syncs up
As long as you run the proprietary nvidia drivers, performance is more or less noise for a given driver version. There IS some annoyance with slower releases for drivers to Linux but... nvidia has had much bigger problems with new driver releases over the past year.
The big issue is if you run the open source community drivers. And... if you are spending leather jacket money and then using low performance drivers... you are an idiot. Because Mistah J already has the metrics and money he wants and doesn't care if you actually use your card after buying it.
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I use a quest 2 headset through my desktop via desktop streamer into steam VR into VRchat. Would this all work on linux? it's already a pain on windows.
I think virtualdesktop works, but don't quote me on that.
I think it used to work officially, but last I heard they dropped official support.
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Linux doesnt have games that install kernel-level spyware under the guise of anti-cheat. Hopefully never will, but I don't underestimate gamers who love think spyware is a good idea. Stay away from linux if you want kernel anti cheat please, its ruining computers
Breaking News:
This just in new game requires sudoers access to play!
What's hilarious is that is par the course on windows to run Steam as an admin. In fact that fixes a ton of bugs for people, so any executable the steam process spawns, like game executables, has admin rights as well.
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I'm not going to throw doubt on the 90% number. Statistics are made up and generally don't mean anything. "90% of games" .... In what context? Games on steam? Games ever made? I don't think I'm going to be playing sierra titles from the 90s.... What about Flash based games that used to run in a browser? Do they count?
I don't know and it doesn't matter.
The only thing I want to say is that the "10%" that don't work are usually pretty popular.
I'd like to see this metric based on average player counts. What percentage of gamers, playing games right now, could play on Linux.
IMO, that would give a much more relevant indication of how viable it is for most gamers to switch to Linux.
I'm still using Windows 10 and no, I didn't buy their extended bullshit. I don't even run the latest version of Windows 10. I also have an update server setup so I don't usually get updates often because I need to go approve them. But I also work in IT and I've seen every social engineering attack type that's been used since the 90s and I know when to not click on something. I haven't needed an anti virus on my personal system in 20 years.
To say I'm not worried about it is an understatement.
If you open it, it mentions the data is from protondb. Which is a database of steam games
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Wouldn't you be playing Sierra games from the 90s in ScummVM whether you were on Linux or Windows anyway?
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