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All I want for christmas is a Portal 3 and a VR headset for Linux (that actually is using a standrad like VGA was)... ;)

by RRRA 11y ago

neuromute 11y ago
I was surprised to discover that Oculus have dropped support for Linux and OSX, at least for the time being. I'm sure you can still run the headsets, but it seems like a somewhat risky purchase as long as there is no official support. I'd love to hear about other Linux users' experience with a consumer unit though. I'm really excited about VR and would love to pick up a headset at some point soon. I hope Oculus start to focus on Linux support again soon!
- gtaylor 11y ago
  > I was surprised to discover that Oculus have dropped support for Linux and OSX, at least for the time being. The graphic driver situation is abysmal for both. With Linux, you might as well not even bother with modern AMD cards. They've done a terrible job the last few years, often eschewing such things as a change log that shows what this random update you're downloading does. NVIDIA is much better on Linux overall, but even they have got a lot of limitations and quirks. Performance is much better than AMD, as long as you don't use the open source drivers. On Mac, the drivers are crazy out of date and seem to be very tied to specific Mac OS releases. I don't know whether to be irate with Apple or NVIDIA/AMD. Linux benchmarks better on many games than Mac OS. Phoronix runs these periodically if you wanted to see some numbers.
  - neuromute 11y ago
    I've got a 980 GTX running on Ubuntu 14.04.3 and it's pretty good overall. I can play most games at a decent framerate in very high quality @ 2560x1440. It can run Portal at 4K, no problem. The rig I have is pretty new and cost just over £2000 though. I've had less impressive results with lower spec'd hardware. As with all things gaming/hardware related, YMMV.
    - gtaylor 11y ago
      Yeah, Portal isn't too demanding. I've got similar hardware and even it strains with the more recent higher end titles, whereas Windows runs it beautifully. Until the driver situation improves a bit, it's going to be hit-or-miss on a per-game basis.
- mastax 11y ago
  >Linux support is on the roadmap post-launch, Mac support is on the roadmap post-decent Apple hardware release, whenever that is. https://mobile.twitter.com/palmerluckey/status/674311865023918080 https://mobile.twitter.com/palmerluckey/status/6743118650239...
lfowles 11y ago
Heh. My last early adopter experience assured that I would get Portal 3 (if it's ever released...). Pretty much anyone using a steam controller with a mac got the Valve Complete Pack, future titles included, as a gift due to buggy support on pre-release.

All I want for christmas is a Portal 3 and a VR headset for Linux (that actually is using a standrad like VGA was)... ;)

by RRRA 11y ago

All I want for christmas is a Portal 3 and a VR headset for Linux (that actually is using a standrad like VGA was)... ;)

neuromute 11y ago

I was surprised to discover that Oculus have dropped support for Linux and OSX, at least for the time being. I'm sure you can still run the headsets, but it seems like a somewhat risky purchase as long as there is no official support. I'd love to hear about other Linux users' experience with a consumer unit though. I'm really excited about VR and would love to pick up a headset at some point soon. I hope Oculus start to focus on Linux support again soon!

gtaylor 11y ago
> I was surprised to discover that Oculus have dropped support for Linux and OSX, at least for the time being. The graphic driver situation is abysmal for both. With Linux, you might as well not even bother with modern AMD cards. They've done a terrible job the last few years, often eschewing such things as a change log that shows what this random update you're downloading does. NVIDIA is much better on Linux overall, but even they have got a lot of limitations and quirks. Performance is much better than AMD, as long as you don't use the open source drivers. On Mac, the drivers are crazy out of date and seem to be very tied to specific Mac OS releases. I don't know whether to be irate with Apple or NVIDIA/AMD. Linux benchmarks better on many games than Mac OS. Phoronix runs these periodically if you wanted to see some numbers.
- neuromute 11y ago
  I've got a 980 GTX running on Ubuntu 14.04.3 and it's pretty good overall. I can play most games at a decent framerate in very high quality @ 2560x1440. It can run Portal at 4K, no problem. The rig I have is pretty new and cost just over £2000 though. I've had less impressive results with lower spec'd hardware. As with all things gaming/hardware related, YMMV.
  - gtaylor 11y ago
    Yeah, Portal isn't too demanding. I've got similar hardware and even it strains with the more recent higher end titles, whereas Windows runs it beautifully. Until the driver situation improves a bit, it's going to be hit-or-miss on a per-game basis.
mastax 11y ago
>Linux support is on the roadmap post-launch, Mac support is on the roadmap post-decent Apple hardware release, whenever that is. https://mobile.twitter.com/palmerluckey/status/674311865023918080 https://mobile.twitter.com/palmerluckey/status/6743118650239...

lfowles 11y ago

Heh. My last early adopter experience assured that I would get Portal 3 (if it's ever released...). Pretty much anyone using a steam controller with a mac got the Valve Complete Pack, future titles included, as a gift due to buggy support on pre-release.