Notices by Fell (fell@ma.fellr.net)

So, my Valve Index arrived. As you may know, it officially supports Linux.
It works, sort of, but dear god what a mess that was to get working.

Within the span of one evening, I have seen it all: GPU freezing, failing to aquire a DRM lease, firmware updates crashing, latency, and some weird swap chain flickering issue.

It works, though. On Linux. And I have a plethora of paths to get it perfect. This weekend will be awesome.

#Valve #Index #VR #VRChat #SteamVR #Linux #LinuxGaming

Oh yeah, thanks to @rio for giving me the strength to do this last #FOSDEM. 🙏

@kaia The OS can be as light as a feather, but it can never make up for browsers trying their best to run tons and tons of JavaScript IMO.
At risk of sounding like a broken record, I would try Mint.

I re-tested Fedora KDE and openSUSE Tumbleweed and I can't believe that Mint ist still the *only* distro that gets this right:

- User installs Linux
- User wants to install NVIDIA driver, Discord or Wine
⚠️ Not available in package manager
- User learns about extra repositories¹
- User is forced to use the terminal to customise and learn about package sources²

¹ This shouldn't even be a problem in the first place.
² This is simply unacceptable user experience.

#Linux #DesktopLinux

Let's make this a challenge, actually:

Name any distro (except Mint) which lets you install Discord, Wine and the current NVIDIA driver without opening a terminal.

#Linux #AskFedi

@BrodieOnLinux Probably the classic "KDE is bloated" myth. I run Plasma just fine on a 2013 laptop.

Okay, ich muss hier gerade mal etwas gutes über die Deutsche Bahn berichten: 🚄

Ich habe gestern, am Feiertag, online das Fahrgastrechteformular ausgefüllt, wobei das meiste sogar schon vorausgefüllt war. Heute um 7:35, kam die Bestätigung dass ich 32,25 € erstattet bekomme.

Das hat sich massiv vebessert.

#DB #Bahn #Fahrgastrechte #Fahrgastrechteformular

To all people shocked about the 90€ / $90 price tag of the new Mario Kart and similar rumours about GTA 6:

Video game prices have been stable for 40 years, while production costs have been skyrocketing ever since. It may sound harsh, but a price increase is long overdue.

See it this way: With a higher one-time payment, we can keep traditional video games alive and prevent the "Games as a service" cancer from devouring the industry.

#Gaming #MarioKart #Nintendo #GTA6 #GTA #Rockstar

@kaia I can agree with most of these, but if my fridge ever cracks like a branch I'm turning it off. Wtf.

@rio This is awesome! I should really try getting my Rift CV1 working one more time.

@rio Maybe. It's pretty good for a lot of things, not so much for others.

@kaia Yup...

@Polychrome @overte Yeah, they explained it to me, but I didn't quite grasp the story behind it. I just think that it's a solid base for something that could be on a similar success trajectory like the Godot Engine, which is also a former commercial project.

Guys, I can't believe it, open source VRChat is here. It's called @overte and it's actually fast. It supports hundreds of people in a single instance and the editor is actually built into the game. You can hang out with your friends and make worlds together. This is INSANE.

The are working on support for Vulkan to make it even faster. Also VRM models so you can have anime girls, of course.

#FOSDEM #VRChat #Overte #VR #VirtualReality #LinuxGaming

@kaia You like her being unfriendly?

@kaia I still want to buy an Index before it goes out of production. I don't mind being a little outdated. (Says the guy still rocking an Oculus Rift CV1)

Only problem is: If I get one, my wife will be mad. So I'm going to need two of them. 😩

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@kaia When I married my wife, it was 150€ for the marriage office and another 150€ or so for the restaurant. My suit jacket was 3€ from a second hand shop. It was still brand new!

Is it possible to have your computer boot a different operating system based on the time of day? I would like to boot Windows in the morning (because of work) and Linux at all other times. That would be so convienient.

#AskFedi #Windows #Linux #IT #DualBoot #GRUB #systemd #UEFI #EFI #Boot

@kaia There is honestly nothing good at the moment. You can use Matrix, but good luck with calls. There is also Mattermost, which you can selfhost but I don't think it's really open source. Oh and Nextcloud has something like that integrated, but it seems pretty limited.