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Latest Comments by jrt
Lenovo adding Ubuntu & Red Hat on their entire ThinkStation and ThinkPad P lines
2 Jun 2020 at 8:12 pm UTC Likes: 8

This is going to be the best "year of Linux on the Desktop" yet! :D

Half-Life: Alyx now available on Linux with Vulkan
15 May 2020 at 10:20 pm UTC

Quoting: BeamboomEdit: It's still only listed with Windows as supported platform though?
I think the product page update takes time until they refresh the CDN cache.

Half-Life: Alyx now available on Linux with Vulkan
15 May 2020 at 9:36 pm UTC Likes: 2

Wow the game feels a lot smoother compared to the windows version under proton. (I'm below minimum spec tho)

Supporting Linux continues to be worthwhile for ΔV: Rings of Saturn
14 May 2020 at 4:06 pm UTC Likes: 3

oh wow, that market share is huge!

Valve drops support for SteamVR on macOS to focus on Linux & Windows
1 May 2020 at 2:45 pm UTC Likes: 8

Seems odd to see such a big shift announced so abruptly, with no other reasoning.
I don't think that this was abruptly. The Index never listed MacOS as an official platform and indicated therefore a MacOS drop for months. The reason they support linux as much as they do is to get away from Windows getting more restrictive and Apple walled-garden like. Proton also does not officially support MacOS, making it a significantly worse choice for VR gaming than Linux. Apples decision to not support Vulkan was the nail in the coffin imho.

New SteamVR Beta has some essential Half-Life: Alyx fixes for Linux
25 Mar 2020 at 6:39 pm UTC Likes: 3

The SteamVR beta didn't fixed the crashes on loading screens for me. That said, I could finish the whole game with the workarounds mentioned in the Half-Life:Alyx issue on the SteamVR/proton issue tracker. And it's the best game I have ever played. Performance was not perfect but overall pretty good (and I'm under minimum spec and using Proton + ferals gamemode)
I really hope the vulkan version is not far away. It would also be very great to have a Linux build of Hammer 2.

Valve reveals SteamVR 1.10 with a brand new Dashboard
10 Mar 2020 at 10:00 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: sub
Quoting: jrt
Quoting: jrtSadly not even the SteamVR Home destinations for HL:A work on Linux :'(
Update: The Half-Life Alyx SteamVR Home environments are getting fixed linux support with the next SteamVR beta release: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/304#issuecomment-595790309 [External Link]
Hmm, that's promising.
Maybe we'll see Alyx get an unannounced beta release on Linux too?

Crap communication nevertheless, though.
Valve fixed it today. Sadly no news on Linux support for Alyx.

Valve reveals SteamVR 1.10 with a brand new Dashboard
6 Mar 2020 at 2:33 pm UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: jrtSadly not even the SteamVR Home destinations for HL:A work on Linux :'(
Update: The Half-Life Alyx SteamVR Home environments are getting fixed linux support with the next SteamVR beta release: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamVR-for-Linux/issues/304#issuecomment-595790309 [External Link]

Valve reveals SteamVR 1.10 with a brand new Dashboard
4 Mar 2020 at 10:47 pm UTC Likes: 1

Sadly not even the SteamVR Home destinations for HL:A work on Linux :'(

Psyonix are ending support for Rocket League on both Linux and macOS (updated)
26 Jan 2020 at 2:43 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: lectrode
Quoting: razing32Are you guys getting your DLC refunded as well ? Or just base game ?
Just curios.
In their 2nd statement [External Link], Psyonix states:
If you play Rocket League on macOS or Linux and want a refund for the base game, please follow these steps
Notice "base game". The post says nothing about DLC or other purchases. It does not look like they are refunding DLC.
My request for the main game got denied (I clicked the refund option and added an explanation).
However, when I clicked on "I have a question about this purchase" on one of the DLC purchases and explained the situation there, Valve refunded all DLCs and the base game for me.