I tuink that I understand what steam is selking, but I don’t think that a windowed wm is ideal as a desktop with VR. I get that we are takking about a computer strapped to your head.
The karousel guy could take a stab at it, but if Steam releases a dev kit, then any team could try developing a wm with workflows that are designed around a VR interface.
They’re releasing an SDK, which most likely will include a linux compatibility. Windowing desktops may not be the right starting point for a VR desktop, but hopefully some of the teams will grab the developers kit and consideration VR centric ways of working with applications.
are there any linux WMs that provide a good desktop experience with VR headsets yet? I’d love to get a niri like scrolling experience with goggles - although it would make meetings weird.
Which surface do you use? And what features are missing still?
Not an expert though, but have been watching bcachefs for … what feels like a decade.
It’s marked as experimental, hence the “experimental”
To be more clear, before he got his code mainlined, you needed to run h8s full fork of the kernel, with changes made not just to the cache code itself, but also to other parts.
Not all of his changes went in though; but the differences got sorted out enough that the vast majority of his newer changes were driver only.
That said, he was still ruffling feathers about wanting some fast moving kernel changes.
Definitely not going anywhere near the comments section on that phoronix article. It’s guaranteed to be pure poison.
I agree, on both statements.
It is easily stable enough for experimental use.
Additionally, Kent got most of his kernel changes needed for bcachefs merged already, so a dkms should be easier to manage now.
He went beyond that. “As a Finn, do you really expect me to up in arms to support the Russians…”
Bravo, slow-clap.
Honestly, in the long term it has been less effort.
If you’re an “out-od-the-box” comouter user (web browser, maybe one or two apps, and office suite, then stick with the more conventional distros. If you are very dynamic with your OS, especially 8f you play with a lot of different OSS applications, then Arch get’s easier.