I’ve been floating the idea of moving to Linux for a while. I actually have it installed on a spare drive so I can setup dual boot if I wanted.

I chose to go with Mint but have been running into some issues getting programs to run correctly but the big issue I have is getting steam VR to run. I like to play beat saber for fun and after setup it wasn’t connecting to my headset. That’s kind of a deal breaker for me. What are some suggestions to get it running correctly

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have you already tried asking in the steam forums about it?

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Unfortunately I can’t help, I’ve yet to mess withVR at all let alone in Linux. Good luck.

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This is what you’re looking for: https://github.com/alvr-org/alvr

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That isn’t going to help them one bit if they have a SteamVR HMD.

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My experience with HTC vive has been best when using gnome under Xorg.

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I’m doing all of my PC gaming on Linux for years now. Except for VR. It’s unfortunately not running well at all for me. I’m running an Nvidia GPU with a Valve Index and whenever I was able to even get a picture on the HMD in the first place, the latency from movement to screen was about a second or so. Which is an incredibly efficient way to feel incredibly sick.

I’m not sure about your setup, maybe it’s better supported in some way, but, from my experience, I’d unfortunately recommend keeping a Windows partition for VR and saving yourself the (quite literal) headache.

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I dont have VR, but i assume you saw this?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2805545613

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I think I‘ve stumbled across this at some point, but I think it has been updated since.

Thanks for finding it, I‘ll keep it in mind when I get around to trying VR on Linux again in the future.

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It recommends AMDVLK… meh

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