Oh wow, a VR only game with a native version? Definitely gonna try that.

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

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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.

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

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oh wow, that market share is huge!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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]

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

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