Me personally I am not very interested in the performance comparison between Linux and Windows.

Very fair, it’s not really the reason I made the jump either. I would like to see that tackled at some point though, perhaps with some external recording setup to eliminate the apple/orange comparison issues between benchmarking tools.

I switched about a year ago, and was remarkably impressed to see performance gains or only minor decreases in everything I compared, when running my own benchmarks. I’d love to see that result more widely reported, and also academically to see it validated better than I can, across more hardware and games and with better methodology.

Even if not though, really glad to see Gamer’s Nexus taking it seriously and giving us some of the same access to information as we would have comparing hardware for a Windows config. Definitely wishing them the best as they explore automation and even more tooling to make this better.

I’m so absurdly hyped for Steam Frame. Been interested in VR for years, and the right thing has never come along.

• Google Cardboard VR made me nauseous, with a cheap headset and too low a framerate.
• I didn’t have a PC for a while. PSVR looked great, but I had an Xbox, and no equivalent ever came.
• Once I did get a powerful PC, Index looked great, but was expensive, and setting up base stations in my living room always felt impractical.
• Giving Meta a half dozen cameras in my home was never gonna happen.

And now this. High quality, PC VR. Super stable low-latency streaming with foveated encoding and a dedicated Wi-Fi 6 dongle. A company I actually trust not to spy on me. Guaranteed Linux and Steam support, given it’s designed to work with Steam Machine. Quality inside-out tracking with no fuss. And supports standalone VR as a bonus, not to mention can essentially function as a Steam Deck.

Dang, that’s incredibly cool. Hadn’t heard of this!

Very nice! Was looking at the exact same frames after doing some more research, a 10 inch frame for about as cheap as some empty frames I’ve seen, with documentation on the process provided by Immich Frame themselves.

Your private mesh network is an elegant addition to it as well, I may consider something similar. As mentioned in the post, Immich Frame doesn’t recommend being exposed to the Internet, and just has support for a simple single password system. I still feel better about that than being in Frameo’s database I know nothing about and would be paying suspiciously little for, but it’s not exactly ironclad either.

Definitely let me know how it goes if you tackle it in the next week or so!

Correct! This would be going out to family that doesn’t just live close enough to see her and take their own pictures, so being able to add more remotely is the whole point!

My recommendation generally (although the current price of memory makes this more difficult) is to buy a second NVMe drive and install Linux on that. No fussing with a second install on one drive, virtually no risk of Windows thrashing your Linux install or accidentally deleting your Windows data while partitioning, etc. And you can just wipe the drive and install something else if you don’t like it, or use it as storage if you ultimately don’t like Linux.

Man… tough choices.

I’m saving Dark Souls 1. It’s a beautiful game, great replay value I’ve barely begun to tap into, and really cool multiplayer features. Also a game I’d love to introduce more people to.

I’m also saving Hollow Knight. Trying to beat Pantheon of Hallownest, or Steel Soul mode, may just keep me busy until I die single-handedly.

I’m also saving Silksong. Screw it, same reasons as Hollow Knight, selfishly I want em both. I would go just Silksong, but it lacks the updates and endgame content that Hollow Knight has been fleshed out with.

Mario Odyssey? I got really into speedrunning this for a while, and it was a blast. I could get back into that, and push it a lot further with all the free time I’d have now that I’m not playing much else.

There really should be a multiplayer game on this list… I’m tempted by UFO 50, but that feels like cheating, so… Mario Kart World? The online is kinda trash, because they push the intermission courses too hard, but local multiplayer isn’t so affected, and mechanically the rail and wall grinding is deep mechanically, and I could sink a lot more solo playtime time into mastering all the time trials, which I loved dabbling with.

Really, this whole list is defined by games I could speedrun and otherwise try to get thousands of hours of playtime and challenges out of them.

Oh hell yes. Playnite was easily the biggest loss for me in switching my home theatre PC to Linux.

Steam Big Picture mode is solid, and I’ve adjusted to it, but I definitely miss the ease of integration for other launchers and emulators, and some of the more powerful scripting options, easy art adjustments, etc.

I would definitely take a look at this and consider switching back, and it’ll make it easier to recommend Linux to my friends who still use Playnite on Windows.

Haha, I found myself thinking the same thing, and then caught myself, realizing all the other LLMs on this page had lowered the bar immensely for what I’m considering impressive.

This just makes me want to try to get it to hallucinate a Bible verse that doesn’t exist… but it’s not worth giving them the traffic to try.

Damn, I hate how often I look at a situation like that and just think… what a waste. Some morons came in and ruined the message most of us were trying to send to EA by making them the “Worst Company in America”. Now these gross bigots get a “win”, and EA gets to sidestep all the legitimate anti-consumer issues most people were railing against. What a waste. And it feels like that’s everything these days, someone gross is always “on your side” looking to claim your victories for their own narratives.

Eh, if they’re doing it for Half Life Alyx, it’ll likely work like Proton, where Steam will automatically install a native version if it’s available, and you can “force a compatibility tool” if you’d prefer to run the original version through FEX. Presumably any dev would be able to upload a native ARM version for Steam Frame/a hypothetical Steam Deck 2, but I imagine very few will.

Edit: Valve engineers pretty much confirmed this to Gamer’s Nexus, as they described Steam automatically installing the best version for your device, and that you can manually override that.

Looking through their history, gotta agree. Second one of these ChatGPT-posters I’ve blocked in two days, and this one even commented on the other post where I ended up blocking the OP.

Really hoping this doesn’t become a recurring trend on Lemmy.

Pretty much the answer I’d expect. In my most outlandish hopes, I’d love for this thing to serve as proper competition to the PS5, it’s certainly more exciting than Xbox right now, and pretty much sounds like what MS is planning to try for the next Xbox anyway.

That’s probably not likely, that kind of threat would require some really aggressive pricing, and Valve can’t guarantee as much vendor lock-in money post-sale as Sony can. That said… man it’d be incredible to see Valve step into that near-monopoly as well and viably compete against both Switch and PS5, as they both pretty desperately need competition to keep them working for the consumer.

Yeah, basically the only thing I really use the terminal for is ujust, a series of scripts maintained by Bazzite themselves. And ujust does have a script to install a GUI fan controller app, btw, which I’ve used to setup my own fan curves, and found it pretty darn usable despite it being the first time I’ve done such a thing.

The OS is immutable, so you’re probably right that lower level tasks are harder, but Bazzite themselves have stepped in and created a dedicated command for pretty much anything finicky I’ve thought to do in the past year or so.

That’s the one! Fantastic work btw, the mod works brilliantly, and does exactly what I want it to.

Interesting to hear vkBasalt can’t do the same thing, but it makes sense that it’d be purely post-process, and your results speak for themselves that you’re doing something a little more integrated.

Obviously I’d love either native support (Hollow Knight got native HDR with the Xbox release, IIRC), or a proper mod, but I don’t necessarily expect either from yourself necessarily (you’ve done fantastic work, which does run on Linux via Proton anyways), and I don’t expect either for at least a year or so, as the modding community sink their teeth into the game proper.

Hopefully next year I can play a Silksong archipelago randomizer with a dedicated HDR patch and some QoL tweaks for faster runs, all on the native Linux version!

I’d love to support a properly implemented native Linux version, if possible. I can imagine how disheartening it would be to put in all that effort for 3% of players only to find out most Linux players opted to play via Proton anyways.

But it did launch buggy, and I’ve put effort into setting up and modding the Proton version now, so I’ll be finishing this playthrough there.

Just for further context, here’s the docs page advocating for approximately this order of priority for installing stuff. I found myself returning to this page a lot when getting to grips with Bazzite as my first immutable distro.

Fascinating. I wonder if this would fix the original controller issues with the native Linux version. That said, I’m loathe to part with my ReShade-based HDR mod running through Proton, so I probably won’t check anyways. Maybe in a future playthrough, if someone creates a similar native Linux mod (or if the game gets native HDR support, it really helps with the colour banding on that constant spotlight in dark rooms)

It’s even more surprising given the common-ness of “copycats” with mass murders and such. Even with all this constant hype and fear around the idea every year, practically marketing it, seemingly nobody has ever bit and done it.