Whaaat? I just moved to Linux and have Windows installed on another drive just to run my reverb when I want too. Maybe I don't need it anymore!
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Huh, there's more than one person on the planet who owns a G2. I still have mine, and I'm still using it natively with the machine it's hooked up to locked to the last Windows version before it was rug-pulled. I'm definitely going to mess with this. (And I am definitely on the Frame list, too.)
Circling back to report that this does indeed Just Work, although with one caveat for Windows users. I'm astonished. I tired it in Windows first which because I have an AMD GPU required holding my nose and "upgrading" to 24H2 at minimum. This is (not at all) conveniently the same feature update which rug-pulls WMR capability natively and can't be undone without a reinstall and if you're in the same kind of shoes I am and your WMR headset was working previously, that's probably because you had locked your feature version to that one with third party tools and/or group policy. So that was mildly trepidatious.
But so far so good. My only wrinkle seems to be that the double tap the menu button to activate camera passthrough does not seem to work. (Yes, I enabled the cameras in settings.)
Hell yeah
As a frustrated Samsung Odyssey+ user this is incredible news. I've only dusted it off on occasion to try and compile everything in EnVision again, fiddle a bunch, get nauseated, and hope it improves. (I was never able to get games to launch in the headset...)
Although, being on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed...
I had no success with Wayland, therefore I do not recommend using Oasis with Wayland.
Nooooo!! 😭 Maybe it can run in x11 mode with that...X11 / Wayland bridge system...
I was jazzed for steam frame too but I'm a working class prole in 2026 A.D and it apparently doesn't even come with its own headphones? I can't responsibly justify this even if I got picked in the raffle. Lol
If this works though, I'd finally get to erase my ancient Win10 partition for good and switch all my NTFS to BTRFS. GLORIOUS!!!
It only seems to run with xorg though, which is a shame:
I had no success with Wayland, therefore I do not recommend using Oasis with Wayland.
In the release thread, the developer did mention this:
Wayland works if you have the correct version of Mesa. Apparently certain distros have a version too old.
Seeing as the developer only tested on Ubuntu 24.04 and SteamOS, it's possible that they thought it wouldn't work at all.
That's nice to know! I tried to run it on Fedora but it crashes when the room setup starts. I thought it just wasn't ready on Wayland, but after reading up a bit more this seems to be a problem with mesa on Fedora, because they build it with debug flags enabled which triggers a specific bug other distros don't have.
Oh, the joys of Linux... :)
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