Why can’t we just call it a Linux distro?

I think that’s the beauty of a “Gaming distro”

Kk, not a distro, a Gaming distro it is! 😆 *scnr*

Thanks for this interview!

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Is known how they are putting these games on the store? I'm wondering how it will be labeled, as just "VR" won't be enough anymore. Right now we have (mostly) Windows games that just run on Linux and Steam Deck (if not too demanding, but techically they run). On Linux PC (i.e. x86, amd64 etc.). When VR games are compiled for arm though, will they run on PC too?
Will they create a seperate store/category for arm steam frame VR games?
Will PC VR gamers running HTC Vive, Valve Index etc. be able to play these games too or will they miss out? Is this was Lepton is aiming for, but only for Linux users? Don't get me wrong, the more Linux the better, yet VR is a niche, and if Windows VR gamers would not be able to play those games too, it's a loss.

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But, a bigger vendor like Lenovo seemed a bit more trustworthy if I ever encountered hardware problems.

I thought the same... yet, I got disappointed by Lenovo.
As you know now, the detachable controllers have spring loaded copper pins. On my left controller, one of them fell out. I was able to plug it in and it worked again, for months no issues. Then it happened again, and I thought, hey I still have like more than half a year warranty, so why not get it fixed by Lenovo.
Nope, they claim I caused this and refused to replace or fix it for free. No matter what I told them, they stance is, this is a user caused error.
I could send it in for min. 35€ to have it checked, than I can decide if I want to get it repaired for at least 40€.
A new controller is about 70€.

Thanks Lenovo 😡

I bought a replacement controller when it was on sale, yet I'm disappointed by this service. I was one of the first to buy one, even from their store directly. Now I'm hesitant to detach the controller...

Yet, with the controllers attached and bazzite on it, it works really well, and I do enjoy using it from time to time.
I'm even thinking about getting an egpu for it. But from my experiences with bazzite on the ROG Ally where I have an egpu with their proprietary connector, I still had to use Windows to enable it and I wasn't able to get VR running on bazzite. That's why I have Cachy OS on the ROG Ally.

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To be well prepared for my retirement in 20 years, I did buy some games in 2025... yet playing is a completely differen topic 😆

According to my Steam Replay 2025 report, my game of the year is again Fall Guys. Followed by Elite Dangerous, Beat Saber and Helldivers 2.

So no game from 2025, while Helldivers 2 is the most recent one.
I had a look at Metal Eden and Of Lies and Rain (VR), not much playtime yet, but as these are the ones from this year, I guess one of those would be my game of the year 2025.

Dang, I totally should play more 😁

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Oi, the HoN Reborn fix is interesting. I was running into issues when we wanted to play HoN last week. Unfortunately they turned off the previous version "Project Kongor" which was the original HoN (unfortunately without the native Linux version), which they kept online until HoN Reborn went live.

I couldn't get Reborn up and running with Proton experimental, but 9.0 worked for installing and starting. Yet, joining a match didn't work.

HoN was really great back then, and even Project Kongor had the same feeling. Reborn... not so much. Too bad they force players to switch to Reborn, I wished they would let it mature a bit more before turning off Projekt Kongor.

Let's hope Reborn will become a worthy successor eventually.

edit: hmm... I can see what the umu-heroesofnewerthreborn fix does, yet... how to apply it automatically via GE-Proton? 😅

edit#2: oh... just add GAMEID=umu-heroesofnewerthreborn as written 😇

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but from previous comments on GamingOnLinux, you could see a good experience with it

:whistle::woot::wub:

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THREE POINT TWO PERCENT?! What the heck!
- "We will be more than 1%"
- "We will hit 2%"
- "We are now more than 3%"!

Proton, Steam Deck, PC gaming handhelds showing Linux distros working better on them than Windows, the end of Windows 10, Recall, Co-Pilot, etc... all aspects to our benefits. Wow... more than 3 percent.

Okay, next goal: Windows drops below 90% :woot:

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Oh nice, and yes, same for me... this immediately reminded me of Desert Strike. Aaaaww, good old memories. I was playing Desert Strike with my cousins on their Amiga back then, night after night :happy:

edit: even more nostalgia! Did I just see the Airwolf and Blue Thunder helicopter models in there? :woot:

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Death Stranding... some call it a boring FedEx simulator, I say it's one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.

I'm waiting to be able to guide Sam Porter Bridges again on his journey, reconnecting people over the continent and figuring out what the heck has happened to the world.

Please Proton, make this one work on Linux when it releases on PC.

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Hmm... probably we'll have to give up some things we (or at least I) got used to when switching to Wayland.

I've been using Wayland now for a while, and yes, it does have its benefits. E.g on my Surface Pro 7 with Gnome, I can use the full resolution of 2736x1824 with frictional scaling to 175%. It runs very smooth. With X11 performance is very laggy when moving windows and mouse speed feels way to slow. My workaround for that was to use a lower resolution, but none matches the full 3:2 screen, closest I could get was 1680x1050 showing some black bars on top and buttom.

Also Synergy/Deskflow/InputLeap/Barrier (it's more or less all the same) still has issues, on some I get the desktop-portal question for which screen to share and permission each time I start it, while it doesn't ask it on others. Same version... and copy/paste between devices doesn't work on Wayland yet.

But I can get along with these little annoyances. What I'll really be missing is the input-overlay plugin for OBS. To show the MoveMaster keypresses on screen. But input-overlay relies on libuiohook, which apparently cannot easily be made compatible with Wayland.

VR on Ubuntu 24.04 with Gnome 46 is missing DRM leasing, but that's fixed in the next version.

My only real issue is the input-overlay. Wayland works for me pretty well otherwise, I'm using it on my Ubuntu desktop PC with nVidia, old VR gaming notebook running arch and nVidia, vBazzite uses it on my Legion Go and CachyOS uses it on my ROG Ally. And the Surface Pro 7 also running Ubuntu.

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