Ah yes, makes sense. Well overall if there is a lot of text it’s tiring anyway. Maybe if you are already familiar with the content skimming is OK.

Probably a SteamVR bug, might want to check https://wiki.vronlinux.org/ there might some useful hints. I encountered few hiccups but so far nothing from preventing me to play.

I didn’t suggest they are exactly the same. Since I don’t have a benchmark, can you please clarify for example which popular game would be playable with one but not with the other? That would help the rest of us better grasp how very different it will be.

FWIW I have a SteamDeck so you could also use that as a metric if that’s useful.

Very finicky but feasible. Yes I imagine once the Frame is out that’ll be a lot more convenient and reliable.

Wondering how it’d benchmark against https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Nano-Pro-Gen14-AMD.tuxedo in an even smaller form factor and similar price range for specs.

That’s not what they said. Free software can be paid for, either via users or via subsidies. Nobody in this thread suggested that developers starve.

To be pragmatic here are ways free software can be monetized :

• get a salary from a company or institution that relies on free software
• ask for donations via e.g. https://liberapay.com/ or Patreon or OpenCollective
• get money per project via CrowdFunding platforms e.g. KickStarter or for hardware https://www.crowdsupply.com/
• get subsidies directly, e.g. NLNet (International, no need to be European), or https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fund or by being part of a consortium, e.g. public/private partnerships on a theme e.g. https://www.ciiic.nl/en/calls/learning-communities

I professionally do both, namely I get paid to develop free software but I also pay free software developers, e.g. https://gcompris.net/ via their https://www.patreon.com/animtim . I also until recently worked in a public institution and was paid to write free software.

I think it is important not to conflate free software with free of cost and indeed free of production. Free software developers, like me, need to pay their bills but that does NOT have to be opposed to your freedom in using and modifying that software. By implying a false dichotomy by software being either proprietary or funded somehow you are in fact sadly promoting proprietary software, please do not do that.

I just want to play No Man’s Sky on linux VR.

Should work already https://www.protondb.com/app/275850 if you have a Valve Index and a good gaming Linux desktop.