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PCVR on Nobara KDE? (aussie.zone)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I am mulling over this as my project for the long weekend.

Currently my SteamVR won't talk to ALVR. But I do have ALVR on my Quest 3. I am thinking that if I can just get SteamVR to talk to ALVR, I'll be set.

I really want to get it working. I really want to get SkyrimVR as well with some good mods. Half Life Alyx is too scary for me :(. I hate having to boot up Win10 to play VR. Knowing there's a bajillion daemons running around and sucking up my data, giving it to Microsoft only to regurgitate it to force feed me ads, makes me sick.

Anyway, my question is... Am I insane? Has anyone actually managed to get PCVR working on linux or is it a completely unfeasible project that I should drop now before I wind up with PTSD?

Thank you in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for sharing.

That is a really good point. Is it really worth getting pcvr to work if the performance is bad? Maybe it's worth waiting until it has better support (or until someone smarter than me gets fed up and just builds something & puts it on Git!).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think performance may vary depending on your setup. My experience is definitely not universal, but I've never experienced VR that works well on Linux yet. IMO you should keep trying and see if you can get it working, but if not Valve could fix VR on Linux when they finish the rumored Deckard headset.