So Good News:
- I have VR setup and my new model happily works well in VRChat!
- The Quest version also works stunningly and using the Quest 2 I'm borrowing atm gives a really satisfying experience! (albeit a limited one due to Quest VRC lol)
Mediocre News:
- There is no way currently to connect a Quest headset to a Linux desktop for my uses. Both Steam Link or Virtual Desktop do not support SteamVR on Linux and yes there is ALVR which "works" but it took half a day of fiddling to get it running just to get blocked by VRC's anti-cheat
- I do still however have my full old Vive around, so was able to set that up and getting it working for desktop VRC!
Bad News:
- The old Vive setup takes a bunch of space (due to base stations and a mountain of cables) that I don't think I'll want to leave it setup all the time, creating a barrier to just getting in VR like I had at the old house
- The headset still has a narrow FoV with terrible screen door effect, light glare and low resolution, making the experience in VR far less immersive and very fatiguing as I have to squint to read text (which often isn't even enough and I have to move closer!)
Worst News:
- My frame-rate in VR is straight up bad and inconsistent
- I get stutters regular enough that in my time testing I got very motion sick (much faster than with the Vive headset usually)
- No settings combination or magical online fix in half a day of searching did anything of significance
- Although I can now chose between okay frame-rate with loads of stutters or abysmal frame-rate with less stutters
- I know for certain that none of this is an issue on Windows (I've literally played tonnes of VR on this exact hardware), but I am loathe to go back after settling into Linux over the last 3 months
- I could likely get better performance on Linux, but that would require new hardware which I am equally loathe to upgrade; especially as it wouldn't even be a guarantee of things working and it would still be limiting me to the terrible Vive headset and it's associated bulk
Solutions to all this?
- Spend an ungodly amount of money I'd rather put into other things to upgrade my PC to a high spec AMD gpu based system, along with getting a new SteamVR on Linux friendly headset (which would also require upgrading controller and base stations, so just a whole new setup). Just so I can stay on Linux and still do VR things
- Or just "upgrade" my GPU to something newer, beefier and more Linux friendly with the hope it improves frame-rate on current hardware at all
- Embrace the Quest life and just not engage with 80% of VRChat
- Put a Windows drive back in my system to boot into for just VRChat
I'm going to borrow an AMD gpu out of @hooskeh's PC tomorrow to test how worthwhile such endeavors would be


