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It should be titled : "The State of VR Games on Linux : SteamVR only." I don't know about others, but the main reason why I moved to Linux is to get away from
by BlueTemplar 6y ago
It should be titled :
"The State of VR Games on Linux : SteamVR only."
I don't know about others, but the main reason why I moved to Linux is to get away from the spyware, DRM, closed source Windows which has reached for me the breaking point with Windows 8/10.
So I'm not really interested to play games on Linux, if it's only to be forced to, yet again, use closed source, potentially DRM and spyware-riddled software.
Even Valve got worse in this aspect, as, unlike for their earlier games, you seem to be forced to run Steam just to run Alyx.
(Also I'm pissed that I now can't seem to be able to install Oculus Rift CV1's software on Windows 7 any more despite it having been sold as compatible with it for several years (and with Linux support having been promised in the still not materialized future !). Yes, I know, Facebook, but this was before the Cambridge Analytica scandal, though I still should have known better.)
Sure, OpenXR : Monado and Arcan sound promising, but will they attract video game developers ?
Vulkan seemed extremely promising too, but without Xbox support, it currently seems to go the way of OS/2, with no game developers directly targeting it (without even bothering with DirectX), and it being mostly used as a compatibility layer in the Steam/Proton stack.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoTo the downvoter : What, you really think that my title is NOT more accurate ? Have you even RTFA ?!?