There are vim plugins for ai chat bot integrations. Vim is a perfectly robust IDE that can be as dumb as any other

I feel like “Japanese games” is pretty vague. Square Enix and Fromsoft are some of the largest Japanese studios out there and their games work great on Linux.

We just don’t make tech for old people the way we should.

My mother in law says things like “Wow, your son is just so good with computers.” She was impressed at how “tech savvy” he was because he was able to change the brightness on her phone for her so she could show him a picture better.

A lot of our UIs are built for absolute no-thinking usability. How would you propose changing the brightness on a phone that would make it more “old people friendly”. It’s not a matter of difficulty. She just doesnt remember these things, and a different flow may not necessarily be remembered either.

And I’m not saying its her fault or that she’s bad because of it. She was raised learning how to do and remember things a certain way and that has necessarily changed over the years.

A phone can do a lot of things, so unless you want to have 100 apps on your home screen, you’ll have to group some together. For instance, putting WiFi into a Settings app. Having every individual setting just available on the home screen potentially complicates things even worse by being overwhelming.

Genuinely curious how you think things like this could be redesigned to be more old people friendly.

I’m so impressed by what the jellyfin roku team has come up with over the years.

Nano… Like… The one that has all the keybinds permanently shown at the bottom of the screen?

This lightning talk requires running SteamVR for the room setup bits, and it recommends a few things in the name of “user friendliness” that I would otherwise not suggest (Ubuntu bad, Gnome bad, etc). (edit: so switching to Monado wouldn’t really help since it would require SteamVR working in the first place, and if SteamVR works… OP could just use SteamVR)

But it does show a lot of problems and solutions and things to try along the way.

Based on https://db.vronlinux.org/ (which is like protondb for VR, kinda), monado works better for VRChat, but otherwise SteamVR should honestly work just fine.

Is your issue getting it to start at all, or performance issues?

For me it wouldnt start at all in the default big picture mode and would only start in desktop mode.

I made a few tweaks to get performance tuned up when I was on the Vega64, but I don’t remember what all I did there.

edit: Also, I’m the KDE desktop (i wanted my HTPC/VRPC to be as steamdeck similar as possible, and also I have strong anti gnome feelings).

Yeah. Valve Index.

I originally got it working on a Ryzen 1700, and Vega64. But Vega64 is old GCN architecture and it performed poorly.

I have since upgraded the VR setup to Ryzen 5950x and Radeon 6900xt, and it works quite well. I just played an hour of Beat Saber actually.

Interesting. I use Bazzite for my SteamVR setup. Though I do have to swap to desktop mode for VR, otherwise works great (I have a steamdeck build installed because HTPC, so it boots to big picture, but the desktop mode still works).

Unfortunately that is the target frame rate for steam deck most of the time.

So runs like crap is more like “runs as intended”

Sure.you figure out which parts to scale when.

But point being that it quickly pivots into automating away tasks you were previously doing by hand.

I didnt notice at first but a friend pointed it out: it’s the same game loop as cookie clicker. This is just an idle/clicker game. You start manual dealing/clicking. And then you automate it. and it turns into a game of managing your automations rather than actually clicking yourself.

“I was expecting it to be a joke 20 minutes then throw away game, but holy crap, this is actually pretty deep and well thought out.” - Also my friend.

Based on the only comparison we have, the OP is twice the age of their sister. so the sister is now 44/2, or 22. Easy problem.

The entire joke is that every organ has a purpose, and the purpose of your brain is to make bad decisions.

My take is that Windows experience sucks so bad that even HP won’t touch it. But “HP sucks” is a very valid point.

This can go one of two ways:

• More devices running SteamOS/Linux means more support, and helps Linux
• HP manages to make a device so bad that it makes SteamOS look bad, and hurts Linux

The second way shouldn’t even be possible, but never underestimate HP’s ability to make something worse than you thought possible.

Counter point… Both are generating perfectly valid JSON, so who cares?

Python 3.13.2 (main, Feb  5 2025, 08:05:21) [GCC 14.2.1 20250128]
Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information
IPython 9.0.2 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help.
Tip: IPython 9.0+ have hooks to integrate AI/LLM completions.

In [1]: import json

In [2]: json.loads('{"x": 1e-05}')
Out[2]: {'x': 1e-05}

In [3]: json.loads('{"x":0.00001}')
Out[3]: {'x': 1e-05}

Welcome to Node.js v20.3.1.
Type ".help" for more information.
> JSON.parse('{"x":0.00001}')
{ x: 0.00001 }
> JSON.parse('{"x": 1e-05}')
{ x: 0.00001 }

Javascript and Python both happily accept either format from the string and convert it into a float they are happy with.

You may not agree, but some people actually like the platform integration features that Galaxy and Steam and the like provide. Cloud sync and achievements and things that you may not care about are important to other people.

And then there’s just the whole “They said they would, and this is not very reassuring about their commitment to Linux users.”

I have an ultrawide with a 16:9 on either side mounted portrait. I get the vertical space and the ultrawide.

Got it. Linux is not VR ready until it supports discontinued headsets. that were previously at 10% of the 2% market, but are now even less (because it’s discontinued, and thus only going to continue to shrink).

The number of different branded headsets using WMR doesn’t make it significant in any way. Based on Steam hardware survey, WMR headsets only account for 2.84% of VR headsets. Index, Quest 2, Quest 3 account for ~70% of VR headsets in use, and they all work on Linux. Index just naturally in SteamVR and it’s my understanding that setting up ALVR for the quest ones isn’t that tricky (but I’ve also never tried). And much of the remaining 30% other headsets work with ALVR too.

And the point of comparing things to Windows, is that if we’re stating “Linux isn’t ready for gaming because not every VR headset works”, then by that definition Windows isn’t either. Which you probably agree with, but generally speaking “people” / society view Windows as ready for gaming despite it not supporting every headset.

It’s basically getting into the “Fortnite doesn’t work on Linux” type of situation now. Some things are just never going to work, and it’s because of the creator of those things and not Linux itself, and who cares. Even if the things that don’t work are popular, that doesn’t mean that on the whole, the OS isn’t ready.

Also, according to steam only 1.9% of accounts have a VR headset. That alone makes VR an edge case. but 2.84% of 1.9% is 0.05% of overall steam accounts using WMR. I think Linux can be ready for gaming without WMR support.