Quoting: BeamboomVive is working on Linux NOW? How's the experience, technically? How is it compared to Vive on Windows? The hardware requirements, are they the same for Linux too? Are there other VR-games that runs on Linux too, to choose from on Steam?

I'll describe my own SteamVR experience so far. It arrived in beta for Linux just 3 days ago. For about 1.5 days I could not use it because there was an issue [External Link] that had a simple solution (apt-get remove libvulkan1). Then it worked, and the performance is great. I only have Linux, so I cannot compare it with Windows, but everything feels smooth. This is with an i7-4770K and GTX 1060 6G. Room scale setup was a very easy process. [Destinations](http://store.steampowered.com/app/453170/) is surprisingly entertaining in multiplayer. [Serious Sam VR: TFE](http://store.steampowered.com/app/552450/) is fun too. The latter doesn't have the SteamOS store icon because it is in "beta", but its single player campaign plays like a finished product. Two crashes in a combined 3 hours of SteamVR gaming, one of which required a reboot. Most VR games in my library do not yet run on Linux, but the few that already do [External Link] will keep me busy until more arrive. Like most users, most developers just recently got the tools to start testing with SteamVR for Linux. Game engines have already made good progress. Linux actually has a front-row seat this time. Personally, I'm wondering if Oculus will have any Linux-related news on 28 February, during the VRDC. If not, we'll still have SteamVR, Vrui, OpenHMD, libsurvive, the Mozilla folks, maybe OSVR; things look pretty good. It just takes time, that's all.

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Quoting: g000hI work in a Gaming Company and VR is s _ _ t.

VR is "salt" to spice up our gaming fun, "sent" to us by the gaming gods? I've just played an hour of Serious Sam VR: TFE with my Vive on Linux. It's fun. I disagree with your generalized statement that VR is "shit". Smartphone VR is not the same thing as Vive VR. There are people who've never had any proper, modern (room scale) VR experiences, and still feel they know enough to say that VR isn't interesting (yet). It's all subjective, of course, but at the very least a statement that VR in general is shit isn't very nuanced.

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Quoting: liamdaweOther sorting methods show games due for release that haven't actually released yet.

Oh, yeah.

It's strange that I wrote it's "obvious" that the count is different when sorting by User Reviews, but then didn't follow the same reasoning for games without releases. :huh:

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Quoting: liamdaweThe exact count for me right now is 3,008!

Same here in the Netherlands.
When I set "Narrow by OS" to SteamOS + Linux, and set "Show selected types" to Games, the overview on the left says "showing 1 - 25 of 3008".
And remains 3008 when going to page 121.

(This is when sorting by Release date. For some reason, all other sorting - except, for obvious reasons, User Reviews - gives me 3163. The store has had this inconsistency for years.)

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Also,

Quoting: Patch NotesAdded three new Achievements

That will surely evoke some emotions here and there. ;)

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Nice video! :)

I like that you all worked together to create this.
It adds variation and really gives it that community feel.

(If GOL has this functionality, maybe sticky the article for a while? I see four other articles already pushed this one down.)

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I recently asked them about Linux support. Bernd Lehahn, Managing Director, replied:

Quoting: Bernd LehahnThis is not decided yet. When it goes into the test it will at first be Windows only. As you know we do support Linux with our games as much as we can and if support for VR will allow it, we would love to also have the new X Rebirth VR edition on Linux. But this is not decided yet.

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"Aspyr Media shut down..."

For a split second, that got me worried.

"...their GameAgent store."

Alrighty then.

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Don't Starve Together is more up-to-date than Don't Starve.
Even if you are alone or off-line, I suggest you choose Don't Starve Together.
Click "Play" and then (quickly, if you are on-line) "Play Offline".
Then choose "Host Game" to launch your own world, or "Browse Games" to use a LAN.

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