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VR and steam, for now.
Actually steam games work well. It's non steam games and ones with kernel level anti cheat.
Interesting. What about Epic? (I donβt like them but free games are free games and I have a lot)
Heroic Game Launcher for Epic, GOG and Amazon games works great.
Noted.
Epic generally works fine through Heroic launcher. Though I've had some occasional problems with Heroic and in those cases Lutris running the Windows Epic Game Store Launcher solved every time. Steam and Proton are still the easiest plug n play though.
I see. Iβll be more careful running epic.
Steam deck is proton using Linux. I have hundreds of games across epic, gog, and steam. They all work just fine except for online games with certain anti cheat shit like what fortnite or gtaV use.
Interesting. Sounds like I could play everything I like except Rivals.
Rivals works great on my Linux rig. Occasionally they update and it breaks the intro video, but the core game has been stable since day 1.
If you wanna check if a specific game is gonna work before you buy it, there's protondb.com
Steam's primary platform is Linux wdym
I palayed half life Alex on the Vive when it came out on popos. That said I tried to play it again about 18month later and it was broken; would launch but not load properly. Beat saber has worked for me very consistently, mods are hard to get going but it's possible.
Iβm using an outdated Samsung headset with the windows mixed reality portal. Itβs UI is so far superior to Oculus I have I may repair it for another decade rather than upgrade.
Yeah, I have not really been liking the direction a lot if headset manufactures are going. I am never going to give meta money if I have a choice.
Theyβre legally strong-arming their way into dominating vr and enshitifying it for profit. The future of VR technology that is actually good is not Anerican.