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SteamVR To Get Linux and Mac OSX Support Within 'a Few Months' (roadtovr.com)
Valve is planning to introduce beta versions of its SteamVR platform for Mac OSX and Linux users within a few months, RoadToVr reports citing an executive. From the report:One thing's for sure, if you're a PC user wanting to indulge in a spot of immersive entertainment right now, the choice of operating systems on which you can do so are mostly limited to just one. Windows dominates the VR PC landscape right now and that looks set to continue for a while longer. However, Valve will soon move to encourage a diminishing of that monopoly, as it plans to bring SteamVR -- the company's Steam-integrated VR platform -- to both Linux and Mac OSX platforms within the next few months. The initiative was revealed by Valve's Joe Ludwig during a talk at this year's developer-focused Steam Dev Days event in Seattle last month. During the talk, Ludwig outlined the company's view that VR should be as open to innovation as possible, touting the benefits for the long term evolution of virtual reality and how Valve, with OpenVR, are trying to keep what Ludwig calls platform "gatekeepers" from (as they see it) stifling progression in the VR space. Additionally, Ludwig stated that it's been listening to developer and user feedback during SteamVR's first year in consumer hands, and says that they've heard clearly that a version of SteamVR is wanted on other operating systems.
I don't get it. I'm not personally against people running Linux, I just don't understand this FUD campaign die hard Linux users feel they need to engage in. Argue an OS on its present merits and failings, not shit that might have been true 15 years ago.
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I have to agree with this. It is getting a bit silly, people repeatedly spouting all this bs about win10 etc. In everyday use win10 is not all that much different than 7, and is not too much more unstable. OK it has some disappointing crashes with the start menu and such, but often this seems to occur when it has started doing updates and needs to reboot/complete some changes. Yes it seems poorly managed at times but it doesn't justify the continuous over-reacting and bitching we see here. I am not a huge fan-boy and have been running a Linux box as a secondary PC, and sometimes as my main/only PC, for prolly 20 years at least. If Linux supported all my favor games plus a toolset I was able to use for my software job, sure I wld dump Windows, but enuff with the FUD and complaints - this is Slashdot and most of us can make up our own minds about which OS we like or hate.
If I had a DeLorean... I would probably only drive it from time to time.
There's not a single OSX running machine I'm aware of that meets minimum spec for Vive. I'm not sure why they're bothering with that...
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Most of the computers Apple sell only have built-in Intel graphics. Others have laptop-class GPUs. And they keep making their computers, even their desktop ones, thinner for absolutely no logical reason.
Tim Cook seems too happy to push users to iPhones and iPads, the Macs appears to be merely an afterthought at this point.
What are you doing that you're getting "security kernel"crashes? Are you using updated drivers? Are you sure you didn't get a virus (they're on a lot of pirated copies of Windows)? Are you sure your RAM is good? Linux does handle faulty memory better than Windows (it doesn't mean it's acceptable to use it). And while SteamVR may run on Linux, it doesn't mean that Anyland will. I've never had any major issues running Windows since like XP. I can tell you that whenever I had a self-proclaimed "Loonex expart" call in with a botched Windows machine, it was the end user each and every single time. They thought they could just play with the registry or start modifying system INIs or messing with DLLs.
Windows is meant to be a "set it and forget it" kind of OS. Not a "tinker until it does exactly what you want" OS. It's meant for the "just get crap done" crowd.
I'm not sure what causes this. My specs are: Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX 2133 MHz ram (32 GB, 8GB x 4). The motherboard is an MSI X99A Gaming 7 LGA2011-3. 8DDR.4PCI-Ex16.2PCI-Ex1 M.2, the processor is an i7-5820K 6-core, and finally the graphics card is an GeForce Asus ROC 1070 GTX 8GB. The SSD disk is an onboard M.2. Samsung 950 Pro 512 GB.
The windows is a storebought OEM windows 10 USB edition, updated to the anniversary edition with all the latest drivers for every bit of the hardware.
Any useful suggestions greatly appreciated.
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Sigh. Any Mac user can make use of it via Bootcamp running Windows on Mac hardware. Which has been true for ages now.
While you're correct that a Mac user can use Boot Camp, what you seem to have missed is that it wouldn't impact what the previous poster said. A Mac running in Boot Camp would appear as Windows so far as those statistics are concerned (since they're for OS, not hardware), meaning that the percentage of SteamVR OSes other than Windows would indeed be 0%, were that statistic posted.
Moreover, VR may be a hot topic, but it's a remarkably small portion of the market, despite the hype surrounding it. Very few people have made purchasing decisions for OSes based on VR support or the lack thereof. So, you're earlier suggestion that people are buying Windows because it's the only one that supports VR may be true for a small portion of the market, but it's not had any significant impact as of yet.
I'm writing this on a windows 10 computer.
but this shit is _more_ true than 15 years ago! windows 2000 was _great_.
Have you tried to debug for example the problem WHY the start menu doesn't pop up sometimes? have you reached the conclusion that installing Classic start menu is a must because of that? the start menu doesn't open up because it's a METRO APP that the operating system puts into sleep/hibernation mode and DOESN'T WAKE IT UP. it saves like 2 mbytes of ram. I think it does it less if you have all kinds of ms push notifications, advertisements and such enable in the start menu to keep the os from sleeping it. there is no _easy_ way to mark it as something the os shouldn't put in the sleep state, only way I know of is to attach a debugger to it(!!!!) to prevent the os from freezing it.
this is just the pinnacle of bad user interface layer design and programming in windows 10 mind you. it affects tens of millions of pc users. of all the things you should have written as a windows program they chose to do this and not even mark it specially.
also don't ever ever take a look at the indian cuisine coding inside cortana. it will make you cry. "what do you mean take a look inside it? how the fu... oh.. the scripts.. the scriptss..".
Have you tried to disable any of the stuff you don't actually want in windows 10? have you looked into how much of it .. well, plain doesn't work. why the fuck bother with making a remote management interface that ONLY BREAKS YOUR COMPUTER and cannot be actually be used to actually "manage" anything!
also after cumulative updates, that just get installed without asking, sometimes all your network interfaces are reset - ipv6 is enabled again, all the smb shares are at their defaults and so on. all the metro apps you uninstalled are installed again.
oh and two finger scrolling doesn't work on this laptop right now because I can't be arsed to do the manual copying of the files since MS changed something since they released the drivers for this laptop and the driver installer ends up being installed in some fake sandbox location and not the right one so the driver doesn't find it's files.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.