![]() ![]() Let’s do this! In Steam, I change my “games” filter to “games and tools”, then run SteamVR. Headset (HMD) is plugged into Displayport and USB3, and powered - check.Basestations are plugged into a power outlet, front and back of room - check.The “Getting Started” card is pretty basic actually. ![]() There’s not many pictures from here on out, because trying to capture a VR experience with a screenshot (or even a video) is like trying to taste food with your nose pinched. (The HMD visor is so shiny and new that you can see me taking the photo in the third shot!) It’s a HUGE box, bigger than it needs to be probably, but the presentation is great. It’s so pretty! The presentation and unboxing experience is very Apple-like or Google Pixel-like in that it tries to get your buy in just from opening the box! There’s a real wow-factor at play here. Also, the OIBAF PPA puts me on Mesa 20.2 at the time of writing. You can also see my specs in my profile or by clicking “View PC info” under my avatar in any of my comments, but I’ve listed them here so that this article notes them statically as those during my experience with the Index.Įdit: I'm also using Kernel 5.7.8 from Mainline here, which is important given the hardware I'm using. Here are some of the hoops I had to jump through to get this stuff working (again, mostly). and yet it’s still (mostly) a success story. Why is that important? Because when it comes to the Valve Index on Linux, absolutely nothing works out of the box. I want to be a “normal” consumer of that O/S and if things don’t work out of the box, I take a dim view of it and I don’t have a lot of patience for terminal hacks or “compiling my own kernel”. I’m extremely technical as a network nerd, but my O/S is just a tool to let me run cool things. I’ve been using it since the early 2000’s, sure, and full time, exclusively, since 2013, but I’m not very interested in learning the guts of this stuff. Now bear in mind that I’m not amazingly Linux-savvy. As the proud and excited owner of a shiny new Valve Index kit to go with my almost-new all-AMD rig, I thought I’d outline the journey to getting it all working, exclusively on Linux. ![]()
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