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Linux Support for Oculus Link

Please consider providing Linux support for the Oculus Link.

With the increasing number of native Linux builds on SteamVR and the current stability of Steam's wine powered Proton compatability layer for Windows games, the ability to use Oculus Link on Linux has become attractive.

At minimum, the production of documentation useful to the Open Source community providing the means for a third party implementation would be greatly appreciated -- beyond the general overview currently provided:

https://developer.oculus.com/blog/how-does-oculus-link-work-the-architecture-pipeline-and-aadt-explained/

If the official stance from Oculus is to not support Linux, at least give us the opportunity to support ourselves with your help.

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  • Iris commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I asked for the same thing too! I hope they look into it soon!

  • James Clow commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The Quest 2 is a wonderful piece of hardware. That said, I'm moving over to Kubuntu, and my next hardware upgrade will be whatever affordable and decent gaming headset will work with Steam and Linux. Valve have done amazing work with Proton and Steam play, Even some Epic titles are work through the Heroic Launcher on Linux. Eventually my dual boot will be gone, and it would be nice if my Quest 2 didn't start to gather dust.

  • Alberto commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I can install Steam, Unity3D, Sidequest and other software on Linux. Literally, the lack of Linux support from Oculus is what is keeping me from ditching Windows completely.

  • Michael Wallace commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It is a shame that the Q2 doesn't support Linux at all. So much potential. Although the market share for gaming on Linux is small, it is increasing and as an aside, I am interested in science endeavors with the headset. Many computational data is already driven through a Linux OS of some sort.

  • Yurii commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please, add linux support for Oculus Link, since on linux much easier making OpenXR apps

  • Spencer Merrow commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I second this idea. I recently installed Linux Mint on my desktop PC and my main OS now is Linux. With the enormous advancements in Steam's Linux support recently, it would be fantastic to have Oculus Link support as well. Linux's market share in the desktop space has been growing, and is approximately 2% at my time of writing this. That may not sound like much, but in reality that's millions of users. Not to mention that in 2019, Linux's desktop market share reached over 3%.

    It would be very much appreciated to have the Oculus desktop software compiled for Linux, or at least have some more detailed documentation provided to us so that the open source community may find a way to support ourselves.

  • MikeS commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would buy a Quest 2 or 3 or whatever comes IF it supports Linux ;-)

  • Craig commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would really increase in value to me if I could do this. Please add Linux support!

  • drksy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be great. Legendary games like Half Life Alyx already support Linux natively, and steam works amazing on my Ubuntu. But Oculus is still a sour grape, preventing me from using steam VR on Linux. Please compile your Oculus Link software for Linux, and free us from the tyranny of Windows.

  • Mészáros Gergely commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Linux support would be greatly appreciated. I'm forced to dual boot to windows which I don't use for anything else. Very annoying. Therefore I can not recommend wholeheartedly this otherwise excellent product.

  • Seph Reed commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would really love linux support! I don't need Windows for anything but this one use case, and that's not enough to install it.

  • George Lenzer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Providing support for an open and inexpensive VR platform that is usable on all PC OSes with Oculus Link is THE killer application. Imagine if the Quest/Quest2 with oculus link had new free/open applications from the free/open source software world that Joe and Jane Average would love. That could open Oculus up to a much larger market share than any other headset. With the current locked down mode, the uses for Oculus are limited to those approved by FB only. That's no way to run a VR company.

  • Pliny commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Providing this kind of support for Linux removes the incentive for the community to reverse engineer/jailbreak things - just sayin'

    Sony is a prime example with the PS2.

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