Quoting: poke86

Quoting: GuestMight be the wrong place to ask, but I want to play Half Life Alyx as intended. Is there a VR system that works well with Linux that perhaps is a bit less than the $1k price tag of the Valve index?

Used HTC Vive off ebay.
You won't get the full finger tracking of the Index but apart from that it'll work.

You could get the Index controllers seperately though, they do work with the Steam VR 1.0 (HTC Vive) tracking. Nevertheless it's a good idea to have also Vive Wands (HTC Vive controllers), as e.g. the Half Life 2 VR Mod seems to work better with them than with the Index controllers.

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Awesome, thanks for this interesting write up!

and because I may have anger management issues when they tell me something doesn't work on Linux, but just maybe!

Haha, maybe!

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Hopefully they add multiplayer for Ultimate Carnage again, after stripping the Windows Live component multiplayer is gone.

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After reading some good articles about the game, being a sci-fi fan and enjoying at least the first movie, I was thinking about getting this game. I haven't played any Far Cry in ages, so I wouldn't it mind being a similar game, as I would enjoy the setting.
But if it doesn't work on Linux I guess it's off the table for now.

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As an owner of the first ROG Ally, it looks like they addressed the ergonomic issues I had. Round corners will be much more appreciated, I'd have to test out the new positioning of the analog sticks.

I'm wondering if there isn't a new SoC available in the meantime, or at least shrinking the manufacturing process by 1 nm like it happened with the Steam Deck SoC.

I have to admit I'm tempted to get one. For the current ROG Ally I even got an external GPU (the 2022 6850M XT model) for it with their proprietary connector, and it runs VR really well (back then VR on Linux was in a really bad state, lots of games I enjoyed playing not working, but that has changed now!). Yet I'm hesitating, as I want to finally try one of the other "handheld" Linux distros first (e.g. chimera os or brazzite). Too bad that firmware upgrades will need Windows to apply still, so dual booting will be a necessity still -.-

And they should be thankful to Valve, without the Steam Deck, nobody would be interested in the ROG Ally (or other PC gaming handhelds), so they could at least officially support Linux on the ROG Ally, am I right? :D

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More than Mac... impressive!

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Really cool also that on Deck it's the native Linux version that made it through the verification process, thanks to Cheeseness and Nemoder!

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Maybe Valve is already working on a solution, to get EA AntiCheat working for Wine/Proton. It took quite a while for EAC to be supported, but eventually it got supported.
EA isn't very consumerfriendly, yet they want to make money. I don't think they want to miss out the opportunity to make more money off Steam Deck users forever.

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Disappointing.
I'm wondering if they've put in real effort to make it work, or if they knew they're not going to keep their stretch goal promise.
With no details at all I guess they didn't really try. Maybe one or two attempts to hit that magical "build for Linux" button, but as that rarely works ootb, they might not have investigated further. Really sad.
Here Rockfish Games was much more transparent: promising to give it a real shot. They tried, had hired an extra engineer for it, but with UE being crap it turned out performance is too bad, while with Proton it works almost flawless. And they officially support Proton.
Too bad Nightdive Studios has chosen to put it into a stretch goal...

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• Added support for using EGL instead of GLX as the OpenGL ICD for NvFBC.

Will this enable the NvFBC feature for EGL, so obs-nvfbc might work again in OBS?

edit: maybe
https://gitlab.com/fzwoch/obs-nvfbc/-/issues/14 [External Link]

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