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State of gaming on linux?
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this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
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Everyone here is saying it's fantastic and much better compared to 10 years ago, which is completely true.
However, the state of VR gaming is still pretty dire. You can get it working on some hardware setups, but not others, and it's nontrivial to find out what's going wrong. I've lost a couple of days trying to diagnose problems on multiple distros and it just doesn't seem to work for me. It may work for you, but the chances are a lot lower than if you were to just play normal games.
To be fair VR gaming is a sort of stalled niche that will likely never grow much beyond where it currently is if it doesn't die off again completely.
Standalone hardware is where it's at for VR most likely. I say this as someone who resents Meta from acquiring oculus and messing with the fully working and awesome rift
VR is very much not stalled. Is it a niche thing? Oh for sure, but it's still very much being developed. Between all the new hardware and software that's coming out, it'll be a few more years of super niche stuff and then it'll start becoming more mainstream.
As others users have said though, VR on Linux is non trivial to set up and sometimes ill advised. I run dual boot with Mint and W11 strictly for VR support.
VR will never become mainstream because it is fundamentally incompatible with the way most people use their systems, cutting yourself completely off from your surroundings is not going to work in many situations (e.g. when you need to have half an eye on the kids, need to communicate with other people living in your household, want to look stuff up on another screen while playing,...
And we are still waiting for VR titles that are beyond the 'tech demo' level of usefulness.