In theory, if Wine worked as good as the dream of what Wine could be (supported all the latest DX11 AAA games with no bugs, etc.) Wine would be the best real-world solution for Linux users who are also gamers.

What I love about Wine, when it works - and it almost never works 100%, is it's a complete Linux solution on the back-end. It effectively makes games and apps compiled for Windows+DirectX into native Linux+OpenGL games and apps.

So if Wine worked well, the impetus for apps and games to port to Linux *would* probable be lower: just use Wine!

But the flip side would be: I as a Linux user would also no longer care at that point... My attitude would be "Don't want to port now? Who cares?! Everything runs in Linux anyway, so go live in your virus-ridden proprietary lock-in bloatware dictatorship Windows forever-and-ever world, and I don't have to keep paying the price for all you Winbred sheeple huddled in that space drawing all the developers to only think about you" :-)

Not that I'm bitter! X-)

But unfortunately, that's all academic, because as ambitious as Wine is, and as amazing as it is Wine works as good as it does for certain titles - it's still extremely crappy at being a real replacement for booting native Windows. Wine is more of a one-hit wonder, where occasionally you get a game that converges with your own likes that is also one of the relatively few titles that works well in Wine with no hidden gotchyas that crop up after trying to log some real gaming time in it.

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Quoting: TheBossMy PC was nearly 3K in total. Doesn't mean I want to buy a VR headset which is currently very limited for Linux.

Agreed, I think anyone who visits this site is more waiting on the HTC Vive... Pre, now?

My worry is still this: The HTC Vive Pre will support SteamVR, which supports Linux - so technically, HTC Vive Pre is "all in" on Linux. But the games themselves. It will blow catch-22 donkey chunks if many of the games on Steam that support SteamVR are Windows only games.

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Quoting: TheBossI couldn't put a kid to bed, slap on a VR headset and completely erase myself from a partner for an evening. It's weird, it's being isolated.

Well, IMO, that is just crazy talk for a married man. For day to day stuff (not special vaca/trips) I need several hours of self time every night - an occasional movie/dinner night, and a little cuddle time when I finally crawl into bed, I'm good!

But maybe I'm the weird one, I'm married but no kids - and that's the single biggest thing my wife never forgave me for. Sounds unrelated to this thread, but really it is. I started thinking about just how much self time I'd be losing if I knocked her up, and got *very* cold feet to the idea after that. Sure, I'll die old and alone, but I plan to have lots of Holo-Deck time leading up to that sad demise!

But I get some people are way more socially oriented than I am. Like you sound to be. That's cool too.

Quoting: GuestGearVR + VR Cinema + Trans-continental/oceanic flight = Killer App.

All the points TheBoss makes are valid: too expensive, too incongruent, etc. Also, motion sickness is REAL with these things! 20 minutes of Half-Life 2 and it's Game Over for me.

Yeah, I am also of the opinion TheBoss will change his mind once he finds his first "oh sh**" moment in VR. I also own the DK2, and many of the VR experiences out there so far do kind of suck. But if you keep hunting around and loading them up, you eventually come across a few that blow your mind.

Then you start thinking about the future of VR and the crazy wild possibilities of it. I personally think flight/space/racing sims are going to see a huge explosion sometime in the future. DCS World and the P-51 Mustang were one of my "oh sh**" VR moments.

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