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Which Linux to use for couch gaming setup including VR? (feddit.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Lemmchen@feddit.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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Please don't say Bazzite as I wasn't able to get SteamVR working on it. I'm looking for alternatives. The current plan is to try plain old Ubuntu instead.

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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. And Canonical routinely tries to sneak snaps back in, to the point where the official Firefox instructions include instructions for pinning their deb repo above the Ubuntu one:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions-recommended

(see step 5)