I run all my VR stuff on Linux and have for two years now. Beyond needing ALVR or WiVRn to stream wirelessly to my headset it’s painless and I get higher framerates than my friends on Windows.
Well that’s even better! I had issues trying to do it, but that was a few years ago. Thanks for the input, any tips on making this work, or is it easy enough? What is the headset?
Quest 3 (until the Frame comes out and I can get the fuck out of Meta’s garbage).
There’s a Linux VR Discord that’s super helpful of you’re in that ecosystem, but basically look into WiVRn and ALVR projects, install, and play with configs. It’s easier to do than it looks but depends on your distro, video card etc.
On my system both ALVR then WiVRn installs were as simple as installing the packages and running them. Some games complained with WiVRn but all I had to do was add a string to the launch options in Steam that was provided by the launcher for just such a case.
Linux VR has come a long way for sure! Feel free to hit me up if you have more questions, or hell I’m happy to help in VR Chat/Resonite too if you just wanna chat about the tech lol, I’m one of the weirdos that still thinks this stuff is cool even if it’s never going to be mainstream the way corps keep trying to monitize it.
Thanks! I am away from home for about two more weeks, but I am going to give it a try. I like buying the humble vr bundles just to play with them, and any sort of motion game for fun/keeping active on rainy days.
I have a quest 1 and 2, but I havent used either in a while. Both were given to me, so I can’t complain. Half Life Alyx was a fantastic game, and really showed me how good it could be.
I am right there with you: as soon as I can get a frame I am moving on to it.
Lol, no idea. She mentioned hers was melted and wouldn’t charge and asked if I wanted it while I was on that side of the country. The plastic around the USB charging port was completely melted/burned. Luckily the port itself is mounted on its own daughterboard and I just build/wired up a new one.
Ended up with a Quest 3 shortly after experimenting.
That is a tall order! Old game, lots of mods, lots of windows files/folders. Probably a lot of tinkering just to get that far.
You doing real family trees, or sims family trees?
For real ones: Gramps is not particularly easy to use, but it is real genealogy software and supports the open standard for importing and exporting data.
As for the game, this is what I would do: I would grab a $20 machine or re-purpose an older one. Put windows on it. Put your game on it. Remote into it (either RDP, or use moonlight). Clipboard is shared, the screen is the game, it works really, really well. And you can preserve your SIMS game when Windows starts to force changes that break things because your main computer is used for the secure stuff like browsing and email, and other games.
That said, I have seen the Sims 2 complete repacked with patches for Lutris that is basically click and run. How many of your mods work, I don’t know.
So weird. I too am lazy, it’s why I use Linux. I don’t have time for windows bullshit.
The games thing? There are more than enough of those to play that just work.
Playing the latest resident evil, mewgenics and the french 33 game, whatever its called.
If you are doing VR, well then you got a point. Still if I had to, I would simply dual boot for it.
I run all my VR stuff on Linux and have for two years now. Beyond needing ALVR or WiVRn to stream wirelessly to my headset it’s painless and I get higher framerates than my friends on Windows.
Well that’s even better! I had issues trying to do it, but that was a few years ago. Thanks for the input, any tips on making this work, or is it easy enough? What is the headset?
Quest 3 (until the Frame comes out and I can get the fuck out of Meta’s garbage).
There’s a Linux VR Discord that’s super helpful of you’re in that ecosystem, but basically look into WiVRn and ALVR projects, install, and play with configs. It’s easier to do than it looks but depends on your distro, video card etc.
On my system both ALVR then WiVRn installs were as simple as installing the packages and running them. Some games complained with WiVRn but all I had to do was add a string to the launch options in Steam that was provided by the launcher for just such a case.
Linux VR has come a long way for sure! Feel free to hit me up if you have more questions, or hell I’m happy to help in VR Chat/Resonite too if you just wanna chat about the tech lol, I’m one of the weirdos that still thinks this stuff is cool even if it’s never going to be mainstream the way corps keep trying to monitize it.
Edit: links help 🙄 https://discord.gg/QxrS6dcaa
Thanks! I am away from home for about two more weeks, but I am going to give it a try. I like buying the humble vr bundles just to play with them, and any sort of motion game for fun/keeping active on rainy days.
I have a quest 1 and 2, but I havent used either in a while. Both were given to me, so I can’t complain. Half Life Alyx was a fantastic game, and really showed me how good it could be.
I am right there with you: as soon as I can get a frame I am moving on to it.
The Quest 2 should work fine for all of this. I got started down this path after rebuilding my sister’s that had caught fire and melted 😆
How common are quest fires!
Lol, no idea. She mentioned hers was melted and wouldn’t charge and asked if I wanted it while I was on that side of the country. The plastic around the USB charging port was completely melted/burned. Luckily the port itself is mounted on its own daughterboard and I just build/wired up a new one.
Ended up with a Quest 3 shortly after experimenting.
Nice to hear… However I haven’t figured out how to get my HTC Vive to behave nicely on Linux…
Same, both with Index and Quest 2.
A bit more fiddly than running a game on Steam, but if you’ve installed mods in a game then you’re more than capable of getting VR working.
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That is a tall order! Old game, lots of mods, lots of windows files/folders. Probably a lot of tinkering just to get that far.
You doing real family trees, or sims family trees?
For real ones: Gramps is not particularly easy to use, but it is real genealogy software and supports the open standard for importing and exporting data.
As for the game, this is what I would do: I would grab a $20 machine or re-purpose an older one. Put windows on it. Put your game on it. Remote into it (either RDP, or use moonlight). Clipboard is shared, the screen is the game, it works really, really well. And you can preserve your SIMS game when Windows starts to force changes that break things because your main computer is used for the secure stuff like browsing and email, and other games.
That said, I have seen the Sims 2 complete repacked with patches for Lutris that is basically click and run. How many of your mods work, I don’t know.
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