“But what we’re not for is putting our finger on the scale.”

The absolute gall.

While this would be great, it’s also a little unfortunate, since the general desktop experience on Steam Deck is IIRC currently a bit below other comparable distros, and I’d hate for people to get an incomplete picture of what the Linux desktop experience can be like. Hopefully the time that’s led up to the wider release of SteamOS has been spent on getting that desktop experience up to snuff.

Gamesir seems to be vying for that crown of late - their price to feature ratio is impressive.

Edit: Yes, they’ll face the same tariff pressures - I’m just noting that 8BitDo isn’t the clear market leader the way they were 3-5 years ago.

I love these updates so much! Thanks for all of the time and effort!

What’s your point?

“Get VR working and it will be.”

“It is!”

“No, it is for your specific hardware and use case.”

That microsoft didn’t enable the necessary software components to run windows mixed reality HMDs on linux?

No - that’s a given. It’s that nobody has working third party software for my hardware yet, hence the “VR isn’t ready on Linux yet” statement.

The reverbs never natively supported any open standards like SteamVR or OpenXR.

I know.

WMR headsets are the ones that have been the hardest to get going with open VR systems like Monado, but that doesn’t mean that hardware that implemented sane standards isn’t already working great, which it is.

I know.

That said, WMR is partially working at this time.

I know.

Bottom line, if you use something that is actually supposed to work, it does. If you don’t, then yeah, the volunteer-created hacks to get things to work are still in progress.

I know.

My VR hardware is still not working, and Linux is clearly not “VR ready”.

My HP Reverb G2 V2 isn’t.