MonkeMischief

Sorry it sounds like you've had some bad experiences, but let's try not to fall into that trap.

Any field with any kind of specialization in our "competitive market culture" seems to go this way. People hone their skills, learn more, and yet they need to constantly find reasons to justify their existence and skillset in a world trying to replace them at every turn, so things get toxic and everybody's got a "one true way" because everyone sees each other as competition. It's an adversarial system top to bottom.

For honest working people no field is "the right field" right now because we're sandwiched between techbro grifters and idiot despots who are both committed to ruining everybody's job prospects.

Everybody's on edge, everybody's pissed, everyone has to show off "I know what I'm doing more than these people" so they can keep the lights on. I do wish that culture would stop sabotaging itself with toxicity, but that's another matter.

We shouldn't discourage people from pursuing something that fascinates them, unless maybe they indicated "I only took compsci because I heard the money was good and the people are cool." . . .which, in the right environment isn't even untrue, necessarily.

Heya! Sorry for taking a minute to get back to you. :)

1000000% with you on not giving a cent to meta or throwing out perfectly good hardware with plenty of life left!!!! For real!

So, last time I tried, VR is a little bumpy right now. I have a Samsung Odyssey+ set that's simply fantastic...if Microsoft weren't deliberately turning it into a paperweight.

Wonderful strides are being made by the FOSS community however!

It's bumpy because a lot of VR kits' only hope right now is a project called "Monado"

https://monado.freedesktop.org/

(Right now it looks like your Reverb G2 is supported!)

I main OpenSUSE Tumbleweed these days, and I used this awesome bit of software called "Envision" that attempts to automate the "retrieve all the correct dependencies and build the thing" stuff.

For being so early, I was very impressed, especially since I'm no pro at compiling software and navigating Git branches and stuff. This is relatively turnkey. (In a tinkery Linux way, anyway lol)

https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/fossvr/envision/

(The wiki here is pretty nice!)

I was able to get the headset to function this way, as in, fire up a game and see through it and look around, and you can enable hand tracking, which is really neat! But I struggled to actually select or interact with anything using it.

The real tough nut to crack is the controllers, but they have made some strides there too! There's a branch that enables controller support, but it's VERY janky right now, like, unusuable, but it's cool that it's going somewhere!

The other challenge is smoothness. Expect a little jitter here and there, it's not so buttery smooth like it was running WMR because they did a LOT of fancy proprietary compensation and prediction code sorta stuff to make that experience work. (And to the surprise of absolutely no one, they refuse to let us folks have it.)

For Elite or DCS, since you'd just be using mouse and keyboard or a standard controller or something anyway, the headset part MIGHT be enough for you! I'd definitely encourage you to give it a shot and have a little patience with it to see if it can be acceptable for you where it's at right now.

You can also get a lot of information and help in the "Linux VR Adventures" Discord. (Ugh, I know.) Link here if you're interested. :)

Unless you're savvy building a bunch of stuff yourself, I'd say check out Envision first, and use that to build Monado for your Reverb and see how that works out for you.

I hope this was helpful! :D

That makes sense. I'm aware of 4chan's anonymity system, but thought it might have to do with that massive user data leak that brought the site down, and thought he might have made an actual username lol.

Many people read his leaked 4Chan comments saying how great hitler was

Whoody wat now??? I feel like this needs to be more publicized, like posted everywhere right alongside his little saluting stunt.

How can one's character even be assassinated after one has murdered it themselves live in front of billions?

No no you're throwing your heart out to it! /s

Not to mention his specific interventions in designs that lead to various fatalities. (Why the cybertruck/wankpanzer is a complete death trap, despite being designed by some likely talented engineers.)

Nailed it. When casino and packaged goods marketers and executives started malignantly metastasizing into the games industry.

Honestly I have a ridiculous pile o' games like a lot of us do, and I've yet to find something (that's not VR) that I cannot play .

For reference I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with a 30 series Nvidia card. Wayland, two monitors, main is 144hz ultrawide 3440 x 1440, another is 1080p 60hz.

First off there's a few programs out there to get you "Glorious Eggroll" versions of Proton which add even more stuff Valve can't distribute in their versions.

This beautiful software right here looks about right: https://davidotek.github.io/protonup-qt/

Steam works fantastically. Heck, Proton works better than native Linux builds sometimes! Deck playability is an even bigger mark of quality.

Even EA's silly launcher works. I got Titanfall 2 and that Sims 2 Ultimate they gave away ages ago working like butter.

I also love actually owning my games, so I use Heroic Launcher for GoG titles.

Oh! I even have CD games or old .EXEs windows would refuse to even install anymore! Don't worry, Linux has got this. I use Bottles to have separate environments for those games to install to and run. Majority of the time it works great but this is where things can get iffy. But hey, Windows wouldn't run them at all!

Wanna know what made me switch? Vermintide 2 kept giving me BSODs in Windows 10 with some super vague error code that made me think "Oh crap, please don't tell me my GPU is dying."

Nope! Linux ran it with zero probs once I fixed some small quirk to make their dumb little launcher work.

Cherry on top? All my RGB stuff works with Open RGB or my recently retired Corsair keyboard works with "CKB Next".

The community has made incredible strides. My Win10 partition only exists because it has Windows Mixed Reality, which they're abandoning. But not to fear, the Monado project is making HUGE improvements.

Give it a shot. I think you'll be surprised. :)

But you made that choice because you liked how it looked. If you're making expressive, almost surreal art and not just trying to "trick the eye" with photoreal, I think it's cool!

The ability to break physics but maintain believability is the coolest thing about computer graphics. :D

So, I guess it depends what you were going for, and I think the previous advice wasn't bad, but you'll always get people trying to push that realism perfection even if that's not what you're trying to do.

Beautiful render, I really like what you did with this. :)

Love it! An experience easily applicable to TF2 as well LOL.

What was the hardest part of this project for you? :)