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Valve Releases SteamVR For Linux (gamingonlinux.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the more-the-merrier dept.

New submitter JustNiz quotes a report from GamingOnLinux: Valve has launched SteamVR for Linux officially in beta form and they are keen to stress that this is a development release. You will need to run the latest Steam Beta Client for it to work at all, so be sure to opt-in if you want to play around with it. VR on Linux will exclusively use Vulkan, so it's going to be a pretty good push for Vulkan if VR becomes more popular. Those who are interested can head over to GitHub for more information.

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  1. Re:Talk about a subset of a subset by erapert · · Score: 3, Informative

    (disclaimer: I run Ubuntu 16.04 on all three of the computers that I use-- two at home and one at work)

    Speak of the devil: I just logged into Steam and it gave me the hardware survey.
    Linux is about 0.8% of the machines running Steam.

    It's kind of a chicken-and-the-egg problem.
    But the game industry, and Valve in particular, are in a difficult spot as Microsoft moves to force everyone to go through their app store.

    I, for one, applaud Valve for bringing awesome games (about 80% of my Steam library runs natively on Linux) and great technology to Linux.
    Hitman just released for Linux. Deus Ex came out for Linux not too long ago. The Total War series runs very well. XCOM, XCOM 2, The Witcher 2, Torchlight, Talos Principle, Stellaris, Rocket League and so on and so on...
    I have more and better games than I have time to play. Thanks, Valve.

    Neither I nor anyone else can twist your arm to switch to Linux-- just don't complain when Microsoft puts ads on your desktop, tracks your every move, forces updates down your throat whether you want them or not, and eventually moves to make you pay a subscription just to use your computer.