Heya! Sorry for taking a minute to get back to you. :)

1000000% with you on not giving a cent to meta or throwing out perfectly good hardware with plenty of life left!!! For real!

So, last time I tried, VR is a little bumpy right now. I have a Samsung Odyssey+ set that’s simply fantastic…if Microsoft weren’t deliberately turning it into a paperweight.

Wonderful strides are being made by the FOSS community however!

It’s bumpy because a lot of VR kits’ only hope right now is a project called “Monado”

https://monado.freedesktop.org/

(Right now it looks like your Reverb G2 is supported!)

I main OpenSUSE Tumbleweed these days, and I used this awesome bit of software called “Envision” that attempts to automate the “retrieve all the correct dependencies and build the thing” stuff.

For being so early, I was very impressed, especially since I’m no pro at compiling software and navigating Git branches and stuff. This is relatively turnkey. (In a tinkery Linux way, anyway lol)

https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/fossvr/envision/

(The wiki here is pretty nice!)

I was able to get the headset to function this way, as in, fire up a game and see through it and look around, and you can enable hand tracking, which is really neat! But I struggled to actually select or interact with anything using it.

The real tough nut to crack is the controllers, but they have made some strides there too! There’s a branch that enables controller support, but it’s VERY janky right now, like, unusuable, but it’s cool that it’s going somewhere!

The other challenge is smoothness. Expect a little jitter here and there, it’s not so buttery smooth like it was running WMR because they did a LOT of fancy proprietary compensation and prediction code sorta stuff to make that experience work. (And to the surprise of absolutely no one, they refuse to let us folks have it.)

For Elite or DCS, since you’d just be using mouse and keyboard or a standard controller or something anyway, the headset part MIGHT be enough for you! I’d definitely encourage you to give it a shot and have a little patience with it to see if it can be acceptable for you where it’s at right now.

You can also get a lot of information and help in the “Linux VR Adventures” Discord. (Ugh, I know.) Link here if you’re interested. :)

Unless you’re savvy building a bunch of stuff yourself, I’d say check out Envision first, and use that to build Monado for your Reverb and see how that works out for you.

I hope this was helpful! :D

That makes sense. I’m aware of 4chan’s anonymity system, but thought it might have to do with that massive user data leak that brought the site down, and thought he might have made an actual username lol.

Many people read his leaked 4Chan comments saying how great hitler was

Whoody wat now??? I feel like this needs to be more publicized, like posted everywhere right alongside his little saluting stunt.

How can one’s character even be assassinated after one has murdered it themselves live in front of billions?

No no you’re throwing your heart out to it! /s

Not to mention his specific interventions in designs that lead to various fatalities. (Why the cybertruck/wankpanzer is a complete death trap, despite being designed by some likely talented engineers.)

Honestly I have a ridiculous pile o’ games like a lot of us do, and I’ve yet to find something (that’s not VR) that I cannot play .

For reference I’m running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with a 30 series Nvidia card. Wayland, two monitors, main is 144hz ultrawide 3440 x 1440, another is 1080p 60hz.

First off there’s a few programs out there to get you “Glorious Eggroll” versions of Proton which add even more stuff Valve can’t distribute in their versions.

This beautiful software right here looks about right: https://davidotek.github.io/protonup-qt/

Steam works fantastically. Heck, Proton works better than native Linux builds sometimes! Deck playability is an even bigger mark of quality.

Even EA’s silly launcher works. I got Titanfall 2 and that Sims 2 Ultimate they gave away ages ago working like butter.

I also love actually owning my games, so I use Heroic Launcher for GoG titles.

Oh! I even have CD games or old .EXEs windows would refuse to even install anymore! Don’t worry, Linux has got this. I use Bottles to have separate environments for those games to install to and run. Majority of the time it works great but this is where things can get iffy. But hey, Windows wouldn’t run them at all!

Wanna know what made me switch? Vermintide 2 kept giving me BSODs in Windows 10 with some super vague error code that made me think “Oh crap, please don’t tell me my GPU is dying.”

Nope! Linux ran it with zero probs once I fixed some small quirk to make their dumb little launcher work.

Cherry on top? All my RGB stuff works with Open RGB or my recently retired Corsair keyboard works with “CKB Next”.

The community has made incredible strides. My Win10 partition only exists because it has Windows Mixed Reality, which they’re abandoning. But not to fear, the Monado project is making HUGE improvements.

Give it a shot. I think you’ll be surprised. :)

Ah, I was so fixated on the “pasta” joke, you’re right, I missed the other thing! Yeah, I can understand you missing that auto scroll feature.

From what I can tell, it doesn’t come as easily as it should natively across all applications, although it appears Firefox has this functionality built in. I found a forum post here from not too long ago. Does this help in your case? :)

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=263528

Edit:

And here, some folks are discussing a scripty way to do it system-wide. YMMV it sounds like, and I’m honestly surprised this isn’t just a tick-box feature by now.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=441445

Been talking about this a lot lately. Older millennial here. I loved that brief little slice of time I got to experience, when DSL / cable was around and no longer “pay by the minute” and someone answering a phone wouldn’t kick you off.

Web pages loaded fast enough. They were fine. Downloads? Just be patient. No problem. WoW and friends, Unreal Tournament, Battlefield 2142, all ran just fine.

But mostly…

I miss when the Internet was a place you went all its own, it wasn’t everywhere, it wasn’t inside of literally everything. You had to “visit” it. Logging on meant you could also log off. It didn’t follow your every move.

Handheld game consoles were still airgapped, the main ones had it optional.

People had blogs for fun, they used the web to express themselves and share ideas and stupid subcultures and memes. It didn’t “matter.”

It wasn’t “the commercial internet.” It was just The Web. It was somewhere else.

Everything wasn’t built on inescapable addiction algorithms that follow you everywhere, and have already your shadow identity shared to innumerable servers because someone knows someone who used one of those services and you were in a group picture once.

For the younger kids, there was a time when your entire life from birth wasn’t shared without your consent for the world to see. (How many people really understood privacy?)

Disconnecting now feels more impossible than ever, it takes a huge effort not unlike fasting, and mental overload is the norm.

So much of it is just corporatized, weaponized, and predatory.

I’m gonna venture he means being totally unreachable…

… by your boss on your day off.

Suburbs and freeways, man. :(

I’m laughing and I don’t even understand the random hostility in this image LOL.

Well if we’re listing all that, you forgot Predator! :p

Peace is finally an option.

I hope they checked his pockets before the MRI violently pulls a bunch of rings at dangerous velocities!

My guess is it works like Lynx.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

You mainly get basic text formatting with some colors. It’s kinda neat. I imagine text heavy sites like Wikipedia (or Lemmy instances! Maybe other Fediverse stuff?) would be decent with it.

You can open media with external applications it says though.

Also hey, it’s not running all that fancy privacy-killing JavaScript! :D

In some situations I imagine it’s fantastic for making your browsing look like you’re working on something important, if you have a problem with nosy shoulder-surfers.

Saving this! Absolutely gold, thanks for writing it up. You’re what makes the Linux community cool. ❤️

tab completion works in more places than you might expect

I’ve found tab to be such a nice “please give me a hint” button.

• Bonus tip : Sometimes you won’t get auto complete because there’s too many possibilities and the computer can’t be certain which one you want. Hitting tab multiple times will show the possibilities, so you can type in enough characters to remove ambiguity, hit tab again, and boom auto complete!

…That was a terribly convoluted explanation I’m sorry. Just try hitting tab multiple times for fun if you’re stuck it’s kinda handy. Lol

Haha this feels like the software version of using like 3 different daisy-chained adaptors. Nice solve!

I don’t want to pasta with middle click. I want to scroll with middle click. I want to pasta with ctrl-v.

🍝🤌🤌🤌

Lol jokes aside, like they said above just add a shift and you’re good. Ctrl+shift+c and Ctrl+shift+v a’cut’a a’nna pasta jus’sa fine! Muah!

I’m feeling the same way. I’ve been mostly “stuck” in wherever I just ended up. Part of me really does fantasize about fleeing somewhere better, especially being in a part of the US with an absolutely abysmal education record (and it shows. Oh boy.)

But besides the resources, I don’t have some ultra compelling reason for a non-volatile nation to bother letting me in.

There’s cool people here, and I try to get along with whomever, but forming relationships feels really high stakes these days since contested politics and tribalism is infecting every facet of peoples’ lives.