Hey fellow Linux gamers,

I've been looking into getting a VR headset (which I would be of course using with my Linux gaming system), but don't want to spend a whole lot of money (I've never used VR before and this is partly me wanting to try it out and see if I even like it, so my budget is about $250, though I could stretch that to about $350 if I have to), and after doing a fair amount of my own research, it seems to me like the best options are as follows:

1. Buy a cheaper stand-alone headset (likely a Quest 2), and then have to do a lot of work to get it working with my computer (apparently there's something called ALVR for this, but also doesn't work very well/requires a lot of setup if you aren't running Arch?) or else hack/jailbreak it to be able to load games from err... alternative sources. Also the downside here of having to deal with some large amount of F*cebook/M*ta bullshit, which I'd like to avoid for the same reasons I use Linux for gaming.
2. Buy an old Oculus Rift S off of Ebay (quick searching shows they usually go for about $100 to $200, depending on condition), which apparently has a decent Linux native driver, but is missing some features (such as controller position tracking).
3. Spend a bit more money on an HTC Vive or Vive Pro from Ebay (looks to me like I might be able to get one in decent condition in the $250 to $350 range with a little luck), which sounds from my research like it has better Linux support/better features, but is it better enough to be worth the extra money?

Any thoughts on which of these options is best, if there's any other decent options within my budget, or if I'd just be wasting my money trying to use VR on Linux?

Distro/hardware is Mint with pretty good Nvidia GPU and Intel CPU

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Disclaimer: Potentially broken english ahead as this is not my native language, sorry for all the possibly nonsense sentences.

This is like my 21th (and I hope the last) attempt to make the switch to linux and everytime I've learned and tested something different. After experimenting with different distros, DEs and testing performance in general I'm staying in Linux Mint for a while.

After getting everything I need for work there's the time for gaming, and if there's a game that I need no matter what that's Civilization VI, but I don't just need it to run, but I also keep a video on Picture and Picture at the same time, I do that on windows and I wanted to do that on linux also.

So... the thing is, if I play the native version I get crashes, can't get borderless window mode, the mods fail, if I touch the PiP video the game minimizes, the game don't even recognize my GPU... horrible.

But if I install the windows version everything works just as if I were playing on windows; borderless window mode, great GPU ID, excellent performance (I feel like it runs even better than on windows, but don't have the data to confirm).

Sometimes I wonder how can proton works so well and the native port so bad at the same time.

BTW: Proton FTW, every game I've tested so far works just fine (with the exception of Bully, but I hope there's a fix).

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Ever since switching my gaming computer to linux, I've been having a lot of trouble trying to get titanfall 2 running. For some reason when I start it through steam, the launch button says it's running for about 5 seconds, then it stops. I'm on GE-proton9-2.

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I just changed from Windows to Fedora, I already installed the Nvidia drivers and most of the games work fine for me, but the NFS Unbound that I usually play with my friends, whenever I try to play it, it gives me this error. I already tried to change the Proton version but I keep going. Without finding a solution, did anyone experience the same thing?

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I and my sister wanna play together but but when we open a lan world it doesnt show up on the other computer, im on nobara and her on windows

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When you power off a VM with single GPU passthrough, how long does it take before you're back at your linux desktop/ login screen? For me it's roughly a minute, 10 seconds and I'm wondering if that's longer than normal.

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Hi!

If I were to put Bazzite on a PC connected to my tv, the gaming mode image (I basically want SteamOS but on a big machine) would my GPU be fully compatible?:

Thanks!

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I managed sid meier's civ 3 to work on my laptop. But there is still that one annoying issue that I don't know how to fix. I don't even think you can fix this but i'll ask anyway. Is there a way to stop audio looping ? I know you can turn off the all sounds in the game preferences but I want to have sound. Thanks. (openSUSE leap 15.5)

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Wow

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I'm using Arch and I'm using glibc-eac package from the AUR. For what ever reason any game with EAC will just crash on start up and won't even run. Steam will say it's runing for like 5 seconds then it'll just crash. Any other game is working just fine

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Released into Early Access today is Of Life and Land (prev called Circle of Kerzoven), a settlement-building game from developer Marco Burri made in Godot.

Although this guide works, I don't recommend doing it. Valve probably blocks proton from loading vac for a good reason (Do this at your own risk, you account could possibly get vac banned, although very unlikely). Also tf2 under proton has memory leak issues, so expect the game to crash after an hour or two.

If you really just want better performance stick to the x64 beta instead.

First step: Get bottles, this is not required if you want to use something else, but bottles will be used for this guide.

After setting up bottles download the latest version of wine ge-proton, this has fixes for mouse sensitivity and generally runs the best in my experience.

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Create a bottle using the default settings, just click the "+" icon on the top left of the main page.

Download and Run the windows version of the steam installer. After installing team fortress 2 change the wine version to wine-ge-proton

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You're done! Some fonts may look bad, but you can easily fix that by installing all font packages under the Dependencies button in your bottle.

also sorry if this guide sucks its my first time making one.

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Sups guys anyone found a way to install fivem onto linux ? I tried with lutris and i cet nothing but errors

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