I have the Valve Index and I’m looking to experiment with using Linux as a daily driver (again). I’ve tried the latest version of Pop!_OS since I heard people have had good experiences with that, but I get various errors when starting SteamVR (some bluetooth errors, and some others that I don’t remember the codes for) that don’t seem to have any fixes right now. I would rather not spend an entire day downloading and installing a big list of distro’s just to find out something doesn’t work, so can anyone detail their good experiences using VR (ideally the Index) on Linux?
I’m by no means afraid of the terminal, so if I have to set up a few things there then that’s fine, but I would rather that be kept to a relative minimum if possible.
Ubuntu
Pop!_OS is derived from Ubuntu, and it didn’t work very well for me. Have you got any reasons why regular Ubuntu might work better?
Yeah I had horrible issues with stutter in PopOS. There was a very long running thread with many people having similar issues. It was a thing across multiple CPU’s and video cards that simply didn’t occur on other distros, but seemed to be some sort of IO throttling.
Went back to Mint/Ubuntu and haven’t had an issue since, but the forum was showing people continuing to have the issues on PopOS for 6mo+ after I quit it
Old GNOME maybe? Idk if wayland + mutter has anything to do with it.