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  • At least on the Steam Deck it’s great. With or without Steam. In terms of compatibility it’s probably best to get an Xbox or PlayStation controller. As far as I know most off-brand controllers present themselves as Xbox controllers.

    If you want to do emulation I’d recommend PlayStation controllers because some PlayStation games only work with those because of unique features like the touchpad and motion controls.

    Most modern games actually show different buttons depending on whether you have a Nintendo, Microsoft or PlayStation controller. And they all have Linux drivers and also work especially well with Steam and Proton.




  • With Oculus you will have to use ALVR. It is a two-part software with a client running on the headset and a server running as a SteamVR plugin on your PC. Setup used to be a pain in the arse but it’s gotten better. But it’s still Alpha software so things might break down the line.

    Don’t expect every game to work. I tried both Batman VR (older one) and 7th Guest and they didn’t work. But most of the other games do work.

    The good thing about the Meta Quest headsets is that they also work without a PC. The bad thing is that you’re at the mercy of Meta. My Quest 1 is still working quite well but no longer gets any OS updates. Normal Android stuff. Maybe the Pico 4 (or whatever their current one is) is better with that. No idea.

    That said, I love the standalone headsets because you don’t have to fight with a cable with them. It’s great, especially if you have the space for room scale VR.

    In terms of VR modded games they might not work on Linux. I don’t know about those Unreal games but at least Alien Isolation’s VR mod cannot work on Linux unfortunately.

    Don’t expect to get any official support.







  • Trouble is that there are enough millennials who also have absolutely no clue about computers. Between dude-bros who won’t touch that nerd shit and girls who got told by their nerd boyfriend’s that the computer will start to burn if they click anything besides their allowed icons a vast majority of people are glad if they know how to turn on the computer and print out their document.

    Yes, there are probably a lot more computer literate millennials than in other generations. But even there it pretty much depends on family and friends. And in a pirate community on Lemmy most of the people will belong to the tech savvy bubble.

    In our friend group even the most computer illiterate kid knew how to set up a LAN without a DHCP server. Their younger siblings had no idea a LAN was even a thing.

    My wife’s ex always told her that she couldn’t understand how to work with a computer. Her older brother who works in IT wouldn’t explain anything to her either. They were pretty astonished when they heard that she had installed a GPU by herself (which most people here know is trivial). Which gave her enough confidence to fix her VCR by herself.