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.

[–] Custodian1623@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I ask because it works fine for me

[–] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What sort of hardware are you using (gpu and headset)? I’m thinking of picking something up soon.

[+] Custodian1623@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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[–] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] rehydrate5503@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Custodian1623@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

meta account would be necessary unless there's another way to run developer tools