Play in VR if you can, amazing experience

Start now friend, it may take time to find alternatives for some of your workflow, also to find a flavour you prefer, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, etc, there is a lot of choice. I’ve been slowly trying to get everything setup for a while now. Only a few more little apps and things to finish the switch. sadly I will still need windows for several VR games performance wise, some are just too stuttery on nix. I used to love Ubuntu/Gnome but KDE is a better environment, from the reading I did, for VR with an Nvidia vid card

My linux usage is climbing as I get some of the final things setup, still can’t get my g13 setup as I can’t get make or cmake to work on the only 2 options for drivers. Several vr games work nearly flawlessly, except for the win api vid player that just shows the colour palate and a small screen with snow in place of videos (apparently a ue4 thing), others are still not smooth enough for streaming. Flat games… if I don’t see my task bar (or my g13 screen) I forget which OS I am using

When I see the steam survey I accept under linux and pass on windows insert “Doing my Part” meme here

It’s been a decade or so since I watched it so went to the wiki to ensure I got things accurate. In the wiki it calls the starting half of Tyler unnamed narrator. Tylers original name is never disclosed in either the book or the movie, check this basically was reading a readers digest story - “Reader’s Digest article about the first person view of internal organs, called “I Am Jack’s ____”.” tho it should be Joe and Jill

Farscape and Fight Club. I love the slow decline in mental stability shown by the main characters. John Crichton (Ben Browder) Farscape does it so well, trying to keep it together when thrown so completely out of his comfort zone. Unnamed Narrator/Tyler Durden, just a complete nut bar that doesn’t even know who they are. Would love to see this from an outside view see how he did some of the things he did, it all made a weird kind of sense til the end then I was just confused.

edit: would love suggestions for similar themed shows/movies

I’ll look into this tonight, ty

As a VR user, some of my games work as well as the flat games do (my god did proton do a damn good job on the flat games to the point I keep forgetting what distro I am using until I look at the “start/task bar”) but some VR games refuse to load, others the visuals are extremely weird or darker than on windows (sharp light lines from ray tracing I assume or maybe dlss stuff), and some don’t have the 1080p crispness I am used to on the monitor/in video playback from windows. I am confident these issues will be addressed as soon as they are able, hopefully before 10 is killed in the back alley, til then it’s a duel boot for me.

Yes, I spelled it the way I did ;)

Has flatpak/snap fixed the screen lease issue for vr yet? Had to install the version off steam for vr when I set it up

Yup, little penguin will show linux native, unless the compatibility is on then everything is listed

That was a beautiful card, bought to use with vr, my gf is still rockin that system

If they take the route we did, paying by debit/credit you still pay the .99, but if cash then rounding rules apply

TY. Will check that as well, and maybe your device as well.

I actually have 2 of those trackballs. First one I bought after about 4 yrs one of the 2 boards inside died so I went and bought another one (they were $99 cdn each, $35 in the states at the time of purchase), it lasted about 4 yrs as well then one of the boards died. The best part was the boards that died were different in each so I pulled em apart and combined the working boards and have been using it since, total this device is about 25 yrs old now

So yeah, software package, I mean the trackball is working (main 3 buttons) but not the side 2 (I now have a few suggestions to try out to keep these old favs runnin tho I am willing to purchase new ones). I have been in the windows world so long now that, as you said, I use drivers and software for a device interchangeably cause that’s what I’ve been seeing in windows, when I dl the “drivers” for my trackball the interface is part of it, same with the G13. It is amazing what you forget in 20 yrs of not thinking about it

Will check this out, ty

The display is mainly for time, stopwatches, which game profile is selected, system information from an app (I forget the name but I had a good free system monitor at one time and it would display on that screen) Will see if the lcdproc/lcd4linux will do what I would like, ty again

Will be checking it out

Generally-speaking, USB mice/trackballs don’t need drivers.

Except to program the buttons

antimicrox

I will check this out

I use Debian Linux

Hopefully will work for me too

Windows games that have integration

not games, other than the profile layout, but system monitors in windows display on it.

g13d

Will check this out as well, the display stuff I could learn to live without, if it will let me program the buttons I will be happy.

if you want game-specific bindings

in windows you can also change profiles by pressing the little round button on the top left, but need the display to see what game is selected

Will check that out, ty

Only the main buttons work on the trackball, left/right/wheel, the 2 little buttons do not do what I need. The G13 does nothing, the display only shows G13, I cannot program the buttons or anything else

Love and war in perfect balance