Most VR headsets don't work at all on Linux, and for those that do, most games don't work anyway. For those that do work, they are unstable, and SteamVR itself is unstable and prone to crashes. Even when things work for a while, the frame rate is lower than on Windows, which is much more important for VR games.

So as much as flat games work perfectly on Linux nowadays, it's just not there for VR.

[–] xtools@programming.dev 7 points 7 hours ago

i never saw one to begin with

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

My daughter wants to play Sims 3 and use her Zune. I'm sure it's possible to do both with enough work and time spent tracking down old utilities but how much time do I want to spend on that when I could just crank out a VM.

[–] gingernate@sopuli.xyz 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Did I just go back in time?

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago

It's funny to me that I could even tell which post of mine this was a response to 😅

Yes, we are quite anachronistic in my house.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Why is this thread getting flooded with people saying how they can't use Linux? Isn't that a little odd coming from a Linux community?

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 0 points 18 minutes ago

I don't see why. You can be interested in Linux and like some aspects of it but still get annoyed at the blinkered zealots claiming that there's no reason to use Windows.

[–] Strykker@programming.dev 34 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

Because on lemmy a post getting 100 up votes is enough to end up somewhere high on all, so your seeing people from outside of the Linux community in here.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago

That's why I'm here, front page.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

"Anymore"? I haven't ever owned a Windows machine, and I haven't used a Windows machine since 2015. I do have to fix a random issue on my wife's work laptop about once a month.

I get that there are some things some people can't do without and which keeps them in Windows: games, and requirements of their business (Word, Excel, PPT), but nothing about Linux has gotten significantly better in recent years. Incrementally, over there past decade, sure, but no big, recent change that might justify the title.

Except in the same way I've never needed Windows: in a very specific, individual way.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Coming from someone who just migrated myself and my family within the last year. Flatpaks were a big deal. I get people have their criticisms of it but wow, installing and updating apps is so much easier now compared to when I tried linux last and flatpak is probably the main reason why we are still on Linux today.

[–] derin@lemmy.beru.co 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

As a person who was all in on the AppImage distribution system (vs Flatpaks), I'm both sad and excited to see how well Flatpaks seem to be working out.

I guess they won that little competition in the end - which seems good, as there's now a healthy standard we can focus on.

It's genuinely great to now have widely accepted distribution independent packaging standards.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 6 hours ago

I'm glad Flatpack appears to be winning over the utterly horrible Snap, but I still don't like it. I fear a day when it becomes difficult to get software that isn't packaged in Flatpack, and I have good reason to: Ruby Gems. Long ago, I was big into Ruby, and was a major contributor (I authored one of the core standard libraries). Gems came along, and I hated them; eventually, for unrelated reasons, I stopped using Ruby altogether, and now when I encounter it, it's impossible to use anything that doesn't have Gem woven into it. Consequently, AFAIK, my current system has nothing Ruby installed on it - unless my OS package manager is doing it under the hood.

IMHO, Flatpacks are a really poor work-around for people supporting and using programming languages that don't build software correctly. Rust and Go do it right: they build stand-alone executables. Flatpack adds literally no value to software built with these. They're not the only languages that do this, but they're the ones having their moment; any language that builds stand-alone, statically linked binaries would do.

I'm with you about AppImage; it would have been a better solution. Any packaging solution requiring extra software to be installed and a service to use is a bad design. I'd be objecting less if AppImage were emerging as the winner.

Incidentally, this is why Podman is superior to Docker: yes, you still need extra software to be installed, but there's no system service with crazy, root-level permissions required to run containers with podman.

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