Playing SteamVR on Linux has been a pain, but I might try it out with Half Life: Alyx, once my PC upgrade is finished. Last time, the audio kept skipping, voice lines went unfinished, and the performance was overall worse than on my Windows partition. However, I am wondering if that's because of Linux or because of my PC not reaching the recommended specs. My main issue is that ALVR was so much harder to set up than SteamVR Link for Quest, and I don't know if I can go through the effort of setting that up again.

I did try WiVRn recently though to check out The Museum of All Things [External Link], and that worked without a hitch. Just goes to show that Linux VR is still a mess, with some games working fine and others breaking down completely.

Update: SteamVR no longer works for me :( Can't even launch it, as it crashes immediately. I still managed to get games to launch though, using WiVRn.

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I feel like making this work with 2.4GHz controllers shouldn't be too difficult, now that Bluetooth controllers can do it too, right?

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Nerrel recently did a video on this, and it seems that the modding framework provided here makes this a better port than the SoH one. Already, he's ported over his HD texture pack, along with several other improvements (e.g. high-quality map showing the location of Link and being more accurate to the game content).

I commend the team for sticking with this, and I'm really hoping that other N64 games get the same treatment.

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I think that most people are waiting for Bethesda games to be supported, but honestly, I'm just happy that Linux finally gets an official mod manager for once that hasn't stopped development out of nowhere. Outside of NSFW content, I'm not sure what kind of mods Cyberpunk 2077 players recommend, but I'm glad that another game is being supported.

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Good to see that Valve are at least letting the community update TF2. Honestly, how they've treated this game is disgusting, but I'm hoping that the SDK will breathe new life into it.

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I just want to see benchmarks between NVK and proprietary NVIDIA drivers. Phoronix published some, but that was in August 2023, before it became Vulkan 1.3 conformant: https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvk-vulkan-performance [External Link]

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Unfortunately, no.

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@shadowofward Bazzite is the go-to for anyone wanting a SteamOS-like distro. Just be aware that this is a Fedora-based distribution, so you will have to install Fedora packages for any software not on the Discover store.

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Glad to hear it, @Eike! You can choose your controller in the Options screen.

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Can I, and how would I, enable two people playing simultaneously with split screen on one PC with two controllers?

Yes! But you'll have to resize the windows yourself, and you won't be able to play on online servers without an additional account. What you'll need is:

• Prism Launcher


• At least one Microsoft account that has purchased Minecraft


• At least one controller for each player other than the first


• A somewhat beefy PC

Here are the steps:

• Install Prism Launcher and login to your account


• Install the Fabulously Optimised modpack (comes with Controlify) on an instance: https://wiki.download.fo/install-instructions#prism-launcher [External Link]


• Duplicate the instance for how ever many players you want


• Click Play Offline on an instance and enter a username


• Repeat for each instance


• You're done! Each instance can now join each other on a shared world! Just remember, no official servers unless you have additional Microsoft accounts that have purchased the game.

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