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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.

I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?

There’s oculus software for my vr but don’t know what I’m going to do with that

Small update: probably going to do Linux mint as that appears to be the most beginner friendly

Update two: that's a lot of comments, and Thanks for all the info

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[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

VR on linux is scuffed. https://lvra.gitlab.io/ refer to this site for vr on linux. If you play VRchat, its pretty much unplayable in vr on linux, its literally somehow a better experience on quest standalone

[–] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't play VRChat myself, but I have to disagree. I'm in several Linux VR groups, and the general sentiment is that it's not as easy to set up, but works well for the more popular games, including VRChat. This is similar to my experience. There's good resources (like LVRA) to help people set things up, or when they're running into issues. I'm also not saying VR on Linux is flawless, far from it, but to describe it as just "scuffed" without context doesn't explain the whole state of it.

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Dang. I tried for a bit to get it working, but I couldn't get it over 20 fps

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had tried ALVR in the past, on my Quest 2, but it sucked. A couple of months have passed and I should probably test again.

[–] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 3 points 1 week ago

Try WiVRN, it's not built on SteamVR, and doesn't have the same issues SteamVR does. You can get it through a flatpak or by using Envision, as described on the LVRA wiki.