• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    The Steam Frame must work. The entire point is that it works with the Steam Machine, which is Linux. I don’t know about other VR on Linux, but I trust at least the Frame is fine.

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      8 hours ago

      Good point. Previously VR games would run on Linux, same as any other games, but VR is super sensitive to frame rate and people using VR on Linux weren’t having a great experience.

      This was probably 5+ years ago, so I think performance has come a long way. But also the Steam Machine is likely pretty specifically tuned so it might work a lot better than a general desktop distro.

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        7 hours ago

        I more meant that The Frame will be tuned to run on Linux in general, but that’s also true. SteamOS isn’t doing anything particularly special though, so whatever they do to make VR work there will also go to making it work on Linux generally. I’d bet that if the VR experience isn’t great for all headset on Linux by the time the Frame releases, it’ll at least be fine for the Frame.