There’s also nitter.poast.org

Many can’t buy indexes as you said. I love the idea of them, but they’re just too damn expensive. On amazon (we have no official shipping in my country) they cost 10,000 RIYALS. That’s about ~3-4000 USD. No thanks, i’d do fine without VR then. and the mq 3 is about 3,000 riyals, or less than 1,000 dollars.

ALVR is pretty okish. Last time i tried it it was very buggy. But that was a long time ago, i don’t know how it is now. Last time i checked i couldn’t use wivrn, but i’ll try it now, thanks

Fuck nvidia, each big update that’s supposed to "fix everything " explicit sync cough cough always brings me a boatload of new issues. I’m going for amd/Intel next time.

The ability to stream media from legit paid sources. (Netflix, Comcast, max, disneyplus, prime, I don’t know where the list is currently, but anything that bitches about user agent.)

I thought all you needed was browser DRM to run those? Idk, I don’t use streaming services 🏴‍☠️

And Isn’t TPM supported on Linux? It’s been in the kernel since 3.20, no?

As for anti cheat, it’s a bitch to deal with, I agree. Same with HDMI,I think DP is superior but people should have freedom to make their one choices.

And the rest? Idk. I use a web browser for all online things, from mail, to banking; so it doesn’t matter whether I’m on Linux or not.

You raise some great points though. The average user isn’t going to use workarounds or alternatives, so we should focus on actually solving the problem instead of saying use this instead.

I also tried setting up a VFIO machine for lack of good VR support (oculus🙄) and I cannot see a normal user doing that (Tbf it’s Meta’s fault, not Linux. But I think it still ties into my argument)

And I heard basically everything except ardour and LMMS are broken or buggy on Linux (I’m no composer so I could be wrong)

God, I wish I could permanently use Linux (NixOS❤️) but it’s just not ready yet.

And don’t even get me started on NVIDIA 🥲

Oh, i forgot about anticheat, i dont play MP sorry. I also can’t tell when a bug is from NVIDIA or Proton, seems i conflated the two too much.

Ease of use (and general software too) seems to slowly getting better, but the real bottleneck, i think is hardware support.

No matter how much software there is, or how easy it is to use Linux, there’s no point if your GPU is extremely buggy and broken on Linux. which seems to be a huge problem for many NVIDIA users, including me :/

Is gaming even much of a problem anymore on Linux now? All my problems come from NVIDIA or oculus BS, but not from proton or wine. Sounds like there isn’t much to perfect anymore :^)

Besides office software and better NVIDIA driver hardware support in general, what else do you think is necessary?

So do i :) but i think helix is especially powerful with nix, for example. instead of having 5 compilers, lsps and such installed, you can create a nix flake for your project and it’ll install all that stuff for you. But for neovim you’d have to manually configure those LSPs in your config, so it is kind of just pointless anyway. But helix automatically loads all your installed LSPs, no config required. I love that about it, but neovim has grown on me.

Plus, helix’s keybinds are amazing, even better than neovims. God i miss it.

Immediately after you install helix, you can start working, no config required. It’s really nice.

It also has OOTB LSP, unlike in neovim where you have to setup manually for each installed LSP, helix just detects it. I also personally think it has better keybinds than neovim.

But it still doesn’t have a plugin system, and it’s quite opinionated. They’re both amazing, and great options. Just depends on what you want in an editor; customizability, or do you want it to just work.

Sorry, i didn’t notice.

This might help, it runs openvr games with openxr: https://gitlab.com/znixian/OpenOVR

i used it before, it works pretty well.

EndeavourOS is the closest to vanilla arch, so i’d recommend that. There’s no good distro for gaming, as long as the packages are up to date (so no debian) it’s perfectly fine.

Weirdly enough I am on explicit sync. I tried on Plasma and this didn’t happen, still had its own problems. X11 was literally flawless though? Weird…

The struggle is real 😞

What GPU do you use now? AMD or NVIDIA?

Not a problem, it’s the sandbox map from Ultrakill.

Well, i’m fucked. I think i’m going to have to return to windows.

I’ve learned my lesson, NEVER buy nvidia.

thanks for all the help everyone, and happy holidays :)

Well fuck me, X11 doesn’t have this issue at all. but i use wayland because X11 has its own set of bugs that causes me headaches. It’s a lose-lose for me.

Yup, explicit sync is implemented on Hyprland, i tried waycheck.