I found on the 42->43 upgrade, Wine 32-bit was removed, and the upgrader errors out instead of fixing it. What I did to fix was immediately, manually (via dnf) uninstall wine*, then immediately run the upgrade again, and it fixed itself, finishing the upgrade with 64-bit Wine installed.
Same. Quest 2. Fedora 43. 5700X3D / 9070 XT. Steam Link can't find AMD video decoder on the pc to run. ALVR has death wobble-like reprojection jitter. WiVrn works when Envision feels like it, which is never as it constantly errors out compiling due to some dependency I can't find for the life of me.
I know compiling from source is preferred as "the linux way", but I would like to spend more time actually using my pc than fixing it. There's no reason the VR software needs to be recompiled just to change a setting. Maybe bake in the ability to change settings instead of hardcoding everything.
Wine would be super helpful if they can find way to make older (2019 and older) Quickbooks run reliably. Lots of small businesses locked into old platforms because the accountants or the people who do accounting themselves can't learn how to use anything else, and the linux alternatives require a phd in linuxology to learn and don't offer the easy business-in-a-box functionality.
Waydroid is neat, but poorly integrated in the desktop. It runs as a full screen app, and doesn't task switch easily.
Please, Valve, make Steam a 64-bit native client! So few people use 32-bit systems that the few that do probably aren't running Steam to save on memory.
Pipewire audio devices and webcam support needs to be smoother. I've never seen so much console shim hacks just to get a virtual webcam working.
I haven't even begun to try my NXT Gladiator flight stick in linux... that might be a whole nother can of trouble to open.
Quest 3 is standalone, and runs VR games on the headset, or with Steam Link and good wifi, you can play VR games from your PC on it. Caveat, you need a Meta (Facebook) account to use it.
Quest 3, not the 3S, uses pancake lenses, which is the big advantage compared to older headsets in comfort and clarity.
Steam Frame is going to be the better, will also play Standalone, but is designed to connect to a PC, including its own wireless link that doesn't need to use your wifi router. Requires a Steam account. Caveat, you need to wait a few months for it to be released.
Steam Frame has a better-specced design that is intended for its purpose of VR gaming headset, and Valve doesn't track you like Meta does.
AI is a tool, it can be used for good, and it can be used for bad. Right now, the business world is trying to find ways to make it work for the business world - I expect 95 percent of these efforts to die off.
My preference and interest is in the local models - smaller, more specialized models that can be run on normal computers. They can do a lot of what the big ones do, without being a cloud service that hrvests data.
As someone who remotes home frequently, no, the experience is not quite right. Packet drop and latency cause lots of input errors and misclicks. Sometimes the local internet decides not to carry your packets, and sometimes even connecting over vpn doesn't.
You do not want a cloud desktop. You want a physical desktop and supplement with cloud services you can't run locally.
TLDR: Swap is useful to minimize memory contention, put it on your fastest drive, and set vm.swappiness to 100 for ssd swap for optimal swap operation, or leave vm.swappiness alone or set it between 1-50 for spinny bois (lower is better for slow rando. reads)
Steam Frame
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