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Been running Bazzite for a month and having a great experience with it! My nvidea cards work with no hassle, and with the extended proton I have had issues with only 1 game so far, and even that was fixed by just switching to a different version. Only downside so far is that Wayland doesn't work as well as X11 on my DE, but with the rest working great, I have no complaints :)
Would you recommend this distro to someone who hasn’t used Linux (Ubuntu) since 2006? I have nvidea as well and haven’t switched because I hear of issues with nvidea
So... FWIW I post often about I have a painless NVIDIA experience, including playing Windows only games, including VR games.
I thought "Damn... how did I get so lucky?" and yesterday while tinkering with partitions (as one does...) I decided I'd try a "speed run" to go from no system to a VR Windows only game running on Linux.
I started from Debian 12 600Mb ISO and ~1h later I was playing.
I'm not saying everybody should have a perfect experience playing games on Linux with an NVIDIA but ... mine was again pretty straightforward.
I'd argue it's easier with Ubuntu and accepting non-free repository, probably having the same result, ~1hr from 0 to play, without even using the command line once.
I'm running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and finally completely dumped Win10 as it was BSODing itself apart during games anyway.
Constantly impressed with how many games "just work", and not even just with Steam. Heroic for GoG stuff, Lutris, Bottles for classics I still got on disc...it's awesome!
But you mentioned Windows Only VR and I got all excited...except I've got a Samsung Odyssey+ (WMR) and realized Monado is the only hope of it not being an expensive blackbox brick. :(
You're right, it's not "just" Proton. I also tried recently GoG for Pod and... it just worked! From buying the (sigh) Windows game to playing on Linux in literally minutes. Amazing.
For WMR I don't know unfortunately. Monado does work though and I would check https://lvra.gitlab.io as it's a great starting point, maybe starting with the Monado SteamVR plugin.