Ah dang, haven't completed the VR version yet. Nice to see they also give the opportunity to play this game for non VR players and even (Linux powered) PC gaming handheld gamers.
I'm thinking about re-buying it even... I'd appreciate if they would give a discount for owners of the VR version though.

edit: I did :woot:

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strangely designed

On the first image it totally looks like PSP.

The choice of having an external battery depends on your use case. E.g I'm indeed mostly playing my Deck plugged in and have set it to max charge 80%. If this opens up for more powerful hardware... well... it's a solution.

Not sure about the bazzite advertisment though. Cool to see it's "supported", yet if they don't offer it shipping pre-installed... that's weird. Saving some bucks on the Windows licence might be appealing to some folks.

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In addition to @Pyretic:

• Steam as well as Steam VR need to be on the beta branch.
• It's not needed (and might even not work) to start Steam VR, connecting from the VR HMD via the Steam Link VR app will automatically start Steam VR on your PC.
• For AMD Mesa 25.2.1 minimum
  on Ubuntu 24.04 e.g. via kisak mesa fresh ppa [External Link], or other versions via ernstp mesa almost stable ppa [External Link]
• For nVidia 575.64.5 minimum
  Ubuntu via proprietary gpu drivers ppa [External Link] or nvidia's cuda repository [External Link]

Games that worked for me (after disabling the wlx-overlay):

• Beat Saber
• Synth Riders
• Pistol Whip
• After The Fall
• Arizona Sunshine Remake

I also got Alien: Rogue Incursion VR to start, but when loading a save game it locked up.

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After I disabled wlx-overlay in the autostart options of Steam VR, games started to work via Steam Link VR.
Just now I can only play like one game, after quitting the game, either Steam VR, Steam or something else locks up :dizzy:
Yet, it's so cool to see this progressing and starting to work.

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So cool to see Steam Link VR finally coming. It was shortly in the beta client but got removed again in may: https://nitter.poast.org/SadlyItsBradley/status/1918820041312678099 [External Link]

It's very much in beta though. Yesterday the Quest App was completely unresponsive to any input, no matter if I purged and re-installed it. Today (I changed nothing, except sleeping) it just worked to pair my Ubuntu 24.04 VR notebook. Needs mesa 25.2.1 and/or nVidia 575.64.5. Though it does show the "empty room" (Steam VR home is disabled) and the Steam VR dashboard, no game really worked for me. After a game started, I might see its splash screen, but as soon as the game should render I'm in a black void. Opening the Steam VR dashboad does show the game too though, closing the dashboard again and I'm in limbo. Somebody mentioned the game started rendering when they toggled the dashboard, but that just crashes the game for me after a few tries.

Instead I tried WiVRn today, that has been around a bit longer, uses Monado and can be build kinda easily via Envision. As I'm a bit familiar with Monado already, have it up and running with my Valve Index, with wlx-overlay, WiVRn worked pretty well. I need to tinker around with its settings though, as compression hit hard on the visuals.

Nonetheless, having Steam Link VR now in beta is a really good sign. Looks like Steam Frame is full steam ahead!

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Though I do enjoy using the Legion Go (2023), especially running bazzite, I made some bad experiences with their RMA policy. I can already see the new detachable controllers are also using spring loaded copper pins. On my Legion Go one of them popped out. I was able to plug it back in and it was fine. For a while. After several detaches it popped out again. I haven't used the Go much before, and when I started using it more, it happened more. As I had 4 months of warranty left, I reached out.

No luck, they claim it's a user caused damage, and they refuse to RMA it. I even reached out to the US department of Lenovo, but they just confirmed it. I've sent them a video of the issue, and yeah, they stay firm with their statement, I caused this. I have no idea how I even could have caused it. My guess is a small mistake in the manufactory that slipped through QA, as it can pass the detaching test.

They offered me to have a look at it at their repair shop. Minimum cost 53€. And if I decide to let it get fixed, minimun another 35€. Well, a new controller was 61€.

They said, I should have done RMA right after it happened the first time within 14 days after purchase. I thought I'd be nice and save them the hassle if it doesn't pop out again... but my takeaway here is, don't wait.

Here's the video I sent them (showing the device running Windows and the Legion Space software, I didn't want to give them any other reason to decline support when I run bazzite):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77XyQchUdv0 [External Link]

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This brings me back to Indie Game: The Movie, where Edmund and Tommy were a big part of it, and I think Edmund talked about Mewgenics after the success of the movie and Super Meat Boy. Nice to see it getting a release soon.

Quite some nostaliga coming up... as back then Linux gaming was very special, with Humble Indie Bundle being a major source of native Linux games.

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I was part of the August survey :)
And I did let them count all... desktop PC, VR notebook, old VR notebook, surface pro tablet, old surface pro tablet, LCD deck, OLED deck, rog ally, legion go... so 0.001% has for sure been me! And no, I don't have a problem... that stuff just accumulated over years :whistle:
Haven't bought new hardware in the last two years. I guess the Legion Go (2023) was the latest aquisition, and that's already 2 years ago.

Unfortunately my VR headset wasn't detected in the survey each time I had it attached. No idea why.

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On my ROG Ally I switched from bazzite to cachy os. Not because bazzite wouldn't be great for the ROG Ally, yet I wasn't able to get VR running.
Also I have the 2022 XG Mobile (6850M XT) with it, which does work on bazzite too (after I enabled it in Windows). Yet, only on cachy os I was able to get Steam VR and Monado up and running.
There are more steps involved to get it running fully and how I wanted. E.g. I prefer handheld deamon, so here are some tweaks needed, and I need to disable the igpu via all-ways-egpu when I want to run VR with full performance. Looks like copying the image from the egpu to the igpu does take some performance otherwise. Also I need an external monitor when operating it with the egpu only.
And now I can operate the ROG Ally in gaming mode for the handheld purpose of the device and still use it in desktop mode for VR when wanted.
And I'm impressed how I can go down to 8W TDP (with VRR enabled) and have a fluid experience in Fall Guys, while that was neither possible in Windows nor bazzite. Under 10W TDP I always got stutters there. And with 8W lets me play about 2h of Fall Guys, while before it wouldn't last an hour.
Cachy os is for sure a bit more effort and more tricky to setup than bazzite (e.g. you need to sign files manually for secure boot), yet once you got the hang of it... it's a really nice experience.

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This sounds like exactly what the "Stop Killing Games" initiative aimed for. Noice!

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