I mostly use Linux but I dual-boot windows just for VR and every time I have to use windows it feels sluggish in comparison

Yeah I’ve never seen anyone on Bsky say anything remotely positive about her

Or even neutral lol

I don’t want to say it’s hard but it also feels disingenuous just simply calling it easy. honestly depends on the person and what they want to do with the computer

Installing it isn’t hard so long as you’re comfortable following some instructions to load a file onto a flash drive and hitting a couple buttons when your computer turns on

For usability, If you absolutely need specific programs that don’t work on Linux, like anything from Adobe, MS Office, CAD software, a lot of music production software, stuff like that, and an alternative just won’t work in your situation (such as if you need it for work) then unfortunately there’s not really a proper solution there. TONS of programs have a Linux equivalent that’s open source and free, many of them work fantastic, but also there’s many that aren’t ideal. For gaming though, it’s gotten REALLY good. With the exception of certain huge multiplayer games with anti-cheat, almost everything will just work if you use Steam, and most other things you can make work by adding them to Steam as a non-Steam game and clicking a couple buttons

As for cost? It costs no money but will cost you some time when you’re first setting it up and learning the ways it differs from Windows

If installing it doesn’t intimidate you and you don’t need any of the software that’s not supported, then it’s honestly not hard overall but there will be some adjustments

No, but I was actually able to play some solo on Linux when I tested it, and the single player mod SPT works on Linux

I don’t believe online PVP works though

“When young like you I was, party we did. Confidence - high. Midichlorian count - higher

The dance floor, owners of it were we. No other crew like us, was there”

I can see the value of this if for example the localization is done poorly, reviews in that language may be a bit more harsh because it would affect the overall experience but that being said I don’t know if I like the idea of it affecting the overall review score shown to the user

The ability to at least see how people speaking different languages review the games would be useful and interesting though in my opinion

Using SteamInput yeah, I’m pretty sure

It basically works the same as the Deck’s controls itself, you’d just have to configure it in Steam. Not sure if it would have a default config or not though

That’s awesome to hear actually, I’m not as familiar with music production stuff and don’t have any personal experience with it on Linux, it’s just something I’d heard was an obstacle before

It’s crazy to me how much better and more viable Linux as a whole has been getting over the past several years

Bazzite looks pretty cool, I’m setting up a computer for my friend’s from my old PC parts and might set up either that or Pop_OS on it

Same, except I’m American and would be happy if I was mistaken for one of my northern next-door neighbors

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler (I’m from Minnesota) :::

My personal favorite was the time I accidentally gave every file in the system full permissions because I fucked up somehow with writing a command and recursively changed them on EVERYTHING instead of just the one directory I wanted to change

I was just trying to get a game from Origin (I think?) to work and I don’t remember what lead me to trying this but basically I just had to reinstall Linux

I’m cross-dominant and left eye dominant but when I draw bows I use my right hand, pistols I use my right hand, but rifles I use left handed

I can’t explain why beyond that it’s just comfortable to do this way

ALVR is so frustratingly close to working for me with the Quest 2 on Linux

Some games actually work flawlessly with it for me now, but recently I wanted to get back into Into The Radius 2 since they updated it a lot, and because it only supports a specific VR framework that I can’t seem to get my system to use, the game itself doesn’t connect to my headset, so I had to boot back into windows for that

Yeah, it’s a little of both, but at least if I don’t use Linux for a while I don’t feel the same problem happening usually

In my experience, if I don’t touch my gaming PC for a month or two and then go boot up Linux it means I just have a long update, but I can also opt to ignore it and deal with it later. On Windows, I don’t really have that choice as much, and updating is extra annoying because it reboots itself multiple times so I have to babysit it otherwise it boots back into Linux after a few seconds on the bootloader

I mostly only use them on macOS because each display has its own set of virtual desktops and I can just leave everything open and move between desktops instead of dealing with minimizing and reopening windows on individual displays instead of all displays switching desktops at once

(as far as I know, there aren’t any Linux DEs that have virtual desktops that work like that but I would love to be wrong about this because I love how this works on macOS)

I rarely use them on Linux (KDE in my case) though, it feels clunky and I usually just forget I had things open on another desktop lol