My VR Hell on NixOS

This made my night c:

I know my way around on Linux, and have learned a lot through having to persevere and work through these sorts of issues, but sometimes it's just.. I have ADHD, and sometimes I wonder if I'm in the wrong for devoting so much time to stubbornly persisting towards computational ideals. I won't give it up right now, but I could see myself having to cut back in the future.

I've recently had a pleasure of assisting my family as they attempt to adopt various Linux distributions. I've seen the discussion around the LTT Challenge YT series. Things don't work out of the box, and even people with substantial experience can hit unyeilding roadblocks. That's just the state of things.

And average folks, they're not using Gentoo. Or Nix, or Guix. But mainstream distros will keep improving their HW support, and ease of use. The more advanced distros will follow their lead, but I do think they're going to follow, and that mainstream distros just aren't there yet. But progress is happening, and it's good for all of us: good for naïve users who need thing to just work, and good for expert users who value their time as much as their software choices.

> <Cadey> As an aside, it seems that most of the people that do VR on NixOS that I know use Nvidia cards. Nvidia drivers on NixOS seem to be significantly less cursed when compared to other distros, however when I built this tower I was building it assuming that I would primarily run NixOS on it. This made me pick an AMD card even though they have slightly less waifus per second compared to their Nvidia counterparts. However the fact that amdgpu is in the damn kernel by default and the AMD team works with mesa to make things work well was the selling point for me. Maybe I should try an Nvidia card?

Yep. AMD is the one whose drivers are open-source and in the kernel by default and all that, but NVidia is the one whose drivers actually work.

(Similarly my prejudices mean I'm not surprised that X11 worked and Wayland and Pulseaudio got in the way)

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