You’re right, it’s not “just” Proton. I also tried recently GoG for Pod and… it just worked! From buying the (sigh) Windows game to playing on Linux in literally minutes. Amazing.

For WMR I don’t know unfortunately. Monado does work though and I would check https://lvra.gitlab.io as it’s a great starting point, maybe starting with the Monado SteamVR plugin.

to steam deck.

to SteamOS

So… FWIW I post often about I have a painless NVIDIA experience, including playing Windows only games, including VR games.

I thought “Damn… how did I get so lucky?” and yesterday while tinkering with partitions (as one does…) I decided I’d try a “speed run” to go from no system to a VR Windows only game running on Linux.

I started from Debian 12 600Mb ISO and ~1h later I was playing.

I’m not saying everybody should have a perfect experience playing games on Linux with an NVIDIA but … mine was again pretty straightforward.

I’d argue it’s easier with Ubuntu and accepting non-free repository, probably having the same result, ~1hr from 0 to play, without even using the command line once.

Except the 2 are not causally related. One can have 5.1 without the logo or, even worst, the waiting time.

FWIW you can fix it locally and eventually use a pull request.

I don’t know find well enough to comment on feasibility but I bet it’d be interesting to try, and maybe realize it’s not trivial.

They can, cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_speed_assistance with example in this thread

Apparently starting ISA in July 2024 https://www.brusselstimes.com/855280/self-braking-cars-all-new-cars-to-be-fitted-with-speed-limiting-technology

at least easier to find those who do it and fine them.

Missed that part, can you please clarify how?

Damn, finally. Can’t wait to see this actually take place. Only ambulances, firefighter or such services that genuinely need the speed and can justify it should be able to go fast in a city. On a highway where everybody are in properly protected vehicle all going in the same direction, sure, go fast, but a city where people actually live, kids walk to school, people walk their dogs, why going over the speed limit where you could literally kill someone.

July 2024 is very close but I wonder what will be the percentage of cars on the roads supporting ISA. I imagine less than 1% so curious about the rate of change. I imagine that due to LEZ though it could go relatively fast. There is hope after all for a city genuinely made for people.

It’s called having standards.

OK provocation aside yes, you actually have to stand for what you believe in. For some people it means not going to a meat restaurants, for others, like me, it means not accepting a WhatsApp chat or a Google Drive share. You also do that but because it’s either so ingrained or socially accepted you do not even notice anymore. Your standards are definitely not mine but if neither of us do push back, then we as a society go backward IMHO (even knowing my standards are not yours, assuming at least some of us do think and act based on new knowledge rather than random beliefs). So… yes it means my circle of acquaintances is not the most inclusive but I do accept boundaries and if it means someone is toxic according to my perspective, they are out, simple.

PS: you actually have no idea what my social life is. You literally can not judge if it’s “richer” or “poorer” than anyone else.

Easy, I don’t talk to such people. They can have my email or phone number if truly necessary. Yes, same for family or work, just not using Meta products for communication. Surprisingly enough people do understand.

Any example? Curious to see how it compare to e.g NixOS.

Genuinely no idea how Linux gaming could be better. I’ve been playing on desktop and Steam Deck for years, both “flat” games and VR games and it just works. Sure I don’t try literally everything but with ProtonDB I’m confident it will work, or not, and decide accordingly. Obviously not all games work on Linux but definitely more quality games that I have time for. For me it just works, I spend at least 99% of my time gaming on Linux actually gaming, in fact I can’t even remember when is the last time I tinkered. I don’t even have problems with GPU drivers despite tinkering with containers with machine learning. I’m not trying to say nobody has problems or dismiss problems people do have, just sharing my experience.

Not only it works very often but one can even check https://www.protondb.com before buying to make sure it does work. It also works for VR games. I recently tried a brand new game, supposedly “Windows only”, and it worked without any tinkering. I then updated ProtonDB to clarify so that others could play too. It’s simple I didn’t boot on Windows to play for years now. I’m also traveling today and instead of bringing a laptop I bring my SteamDeck to play, to work I’ll also bring a BT keyboard.

TL;DR: it works, even with VR, and ProtonDB can help to identify problems

Makes me curious, can you have a Windows image leading you to work without any interaction? (e.g no activation, mounted data partition, etc)

Surprising to me so I must do some things right :

• dedicated /home partition
• OS on SSD, new OS on fast USB stick
• backup on another physical disk of important data (usually a subset of /home )
• other partition for OS testing
• other working device for instructions and search online (mobile phone is usually enough)
• documented setup for complex tools, e.g /home/Prototypes where you might have container setups, e.g docker-compose.yml

Usually if you have this in place its a matter of hour, at most. Sure in 1h you will not have ALL the apps you need perfectly configured but, for me at least, enough to feel at “home” again. It’s usually about having ~/.bashrc or ~/.tridactilrc in place but if you do have /home on another partition, it’s basically “free”.

… but if you do it starts here https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/foreword.html

I had a lot of fun few years ago.