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Valve reportedly cooking native Linux version of Half-Life: Alyx, optimized for Steam Frame VR (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 6 days ago by cm0002@no.lastname.nz to c/steam@programming.dev

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TL;DR: Valve launched the Steam Frame VR headset with an Arm-based Snapdragon chip, aiming to run Half-Life: Alyx natively and streamed from PC. The new hardware features a "Frame Verified" status for optimized games, while rumors suggest two upcoming Half-Life titles supporting PC and VR cooperative play.

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[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

This could be it for me. PCVR is the only reason I still run Windows. If this headset is reasonably priced, or if it causes the index to come down in price enough, I can finally get rid of this preposterous OS.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

Same, I'm so excited to leave windows once and for all

[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago

There is already a Linux native version of Half-Life Alyx: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/546560?updates=true&emclan=103582791465746636&emgid=3758762298552654077

This would be either ARM native or some other optimization for Steam Frame.