Got it, I just haven’t looked at any of them closely enough to give an informed opinion on this. Both Gnome and KDE (and PopOS?) have their own software store apps that let you browse flathub apps with different features, but I haven’t noticed if they do what you’re looking for. What you’re asking for seems reasonable and useful though. I hope you find something that works.

Cool!

For example, if you go to the games category in Bazaar, it’ll say that there is 701 apps but it only shows 96. But now, if you go to the Flathub website, it’ll also say that there is 701 apps but there are 24 pages with 30 apps each.

Oh, wow, I didn’t realize that it did this, but I’ve barely used it yet. Yeah, that’s not good.

Edit: it seems that the most efficient approach would be to fix the Bazaar app or any other apps that show the Flathub catalog instead of writing something completely new.

Some form of an app that will allow me to get the most out of Flathub. I know that I wont use every app that exists on Flathub but I would like to have some app that will allow me to at least see every app that’s available. I don’t care if it’s something as simple as just a list of every app in the order they were added, preferably sorted/sortable by oldest first and multiple pages to make it easier to find where I left off, or if it’s something more intricate, like a full app store experience with an app recommendation system that filters out apps I’ve already interacted with.

Have you looked at Bazaar? I don’t think it does everything you listed, but maybe some of it?

I don’t have any experience with any of this, but have you looked at Cockpit? It can manage VMs not only locally but also remotely, I believe.

@nyan had a similar request elsewhere in this thread and got a few suggestions. It seems that the KDE screen capture utility can do this.

Absolutely!

Haha, no problem!

For the cameras themselves, if you would be interested in DIY solutions and have some old spare Raspberry Pis around, you can turn them into streaming IP cameras and have some control over what camera specs and lenses you use. I can’t tell you how they compare to purpose-built cameras though.

Huh? There’s a post about exactly that pinned at the tops of !linux@lemmy.ml for quite a while. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying.

I’m anxious for those features too. I still have to get started in VR, but I’ve been following the scene relatively closely for the last few years after trying it out.

Thanks for the link, that’s too bad to hear. I hear you that you don’t need this one if you already have other headsets. I’m in the opposite position. I have yet to get my first. I had been considering the Meta Quest 3, but Meta. The Valve Frame will very likely be my first. For someone like me, it’s nearly perfect.

Thanks for your answers. I figure that Valve is highly motivated to get the software sorted out, but we will have to see how quickly they can overcome these issues with hand tracking and WebXR.

About the CPU/GPU, I guess they decided to be practical with all this hardware to keep it relatively affordable. As far as a new VR game, you never know. Didn’t I hear that Alyx was a surprise release with the Index headset?

I’m crossing my fingers too!

Good to hear, thanks for your first-hand impression of the current state of VR on Linux!

Very cool, thanks for your comprehensive predictions of effects of these new devices! I hope that a lot of that will come true.

I hope a lot of those things will come true, but the one I am hoping will happen sooner than later is for apps like Affinity (and Vegas editor!) to improve/fix their support via WINE or Proton. Regarding Affinity specifically, I understand that they have made the entire suite free to use now, which I’m afraid may indicate that canva will slow down or stop its development.

This is what I’m hoping for too. Thanks for providing your perspective from first-hand experience because I wasn’t sure about any of this VR on Linux stuff.

Absolutely! This has been one of the reasons for me holding out on Meta Quest despite really wanting one. Now, the zucc can bite my shiny metal ass.

I think your list is a bit too negative. Here are my comments:

• No hand tracking - hand tracking was added to the original Oculus Quest with a software update, at first as an experimental feature. They have continued to improve it over time. I don’t see why Valve won’t be able to do the same (other than probably having a much smaller team than Meta)
• No color passthrough - I was disappointed by this too. The color passthrough has led to some really interesting games on Quest, like for example, being able to fight characters superimposed over your own real environment, which to me is an amazing development. However, the Frame does have an interface that will allow for color cameras, so there is some small hope for that. Also, perhaps having monochrome passthrough wouldn’t actually impede those same games from working on Frame in the first place. Still, out of your entire list, this is the one that I agree is a serious shortcoming.
• No hardware upgrade - what do you mean by this?
• No WebXR - Where have you heard that? I haven’t seen any mention of this, but obviously there are endless sources of information about this thing. Even if so, would it be impossible to add later with a software update?
• No new VR proper content - What do you mean by this?

I’m a 20 year Windows user and I’m planning my exit.

Hear hear. I’m a 35 year DOS -> Windows user (personally and professionally) and already actively working on my exit.

I would want a damn good reason for my company’s next game to not have full Linux support.

I think I remember reading comments indicating that lots of (indie?) developers are taking the strategy of ensuring that their games work well on WINE/Proton instead of specifically developing for Linux. That makes sense economically for a small company at this point. 5 years from now will probably be a different story than now though, like you said.

People have already started calling the Steam Machine the “GabeCube” around the internet. :)