indeed, it doesn't show up. I've read somewhere it should show up after starting steamvr and the headset but it didn't. steamvr is also freezing everything outsids of itself on startup 😎 so its not the only issue

it was properly connected, i even tried a few different usb ports

your reaction suggests it should work out of the box...

then i suspect i messed something up pretty early on when i got this pc and tried things i didn't quite understand (or by now, remember). i still mostly fly blind, learning the basics of linux bit by bit with every failure

[–] rapchee@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

tried things i didn’t quite understand (or by now, remember)

lol same, i'm on pop os now because i broke mint in some way
but yeah i didn't fiddle with the index, it worked straight away. have you tried it in windows? just to eliminate hardware issues

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

yeah it works fine on my weaker and older windows pc. if the desire to slice and dice flying cubes is overwhelming, i setup everything on there. disappointing but not the only use case for my windows pc.

hmm maybe a clean reinstall with another distro is justified after all (or the same again, but without messing up lol) the hassle of redownloading all the games again doesn't bring joy tho

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

steamvr is pretty broken on linux rn so I'm not surprised it dowsn't work for you. I've had a better experience using envision for vr instead of steamvr