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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100

Thought I'd create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people's pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.

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[–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I haven't managed to get HDR monitors nor my VR headset to work, and I've already spent way more time debugging it in Linux than I ever had to in Windows.

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I got a quest 3 so my options on how to run it are limited to begin with, and I don't know how native VR devices run on Linux. But i hope general support will improve with valves next VR headset since it will run Linux natively.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have a Reverb G2 and while I did get it to run (somewhat), not all games run with it and the Windows driver works much better (motion-smoothing, room tracking etc.)

VR support still seems to be pretty rough in general. But I got it to run through Envision, which does the annoying Monado setup (mostly) automatically for you.

[–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Fingers crossed, that's what I'm hoping for as well. I'm using a valve index so I really expected Steam VR to work out of the box, but hopefully the new headset will work at least.

[–] snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've only been able to get HDR to work properly in Bazzite's gaming mode

[–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Yea it seems the solution to my issue may be too distro hop, but that in of itself already sucks, because then what am I losing in the new distro

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's your window manager and what issue are you having with HDR?

[–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hyprland, and it's been a few months since I last tried so I can't remember fully, but I believe I found settings to activate it for the monitor but then it simply... didn't. It simply stayed as SDR.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, I have no experience with Hyprland unfortunately.

On KDE it is pretty much just enabling it and hitting apply.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Kubuntu here (KDE) All HDR seems to work pretty much out of the box, hadn't had to do anything

[–] JaddedFauceet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What issue are you facing with VR? try lvra.gitlab.io

[–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

I've followed their guides and I still haven't managed to get it up and running with steamvr or monado. The one time I got picture in the headset I was in the floor and I haven't managed to get picture again since.