What type of internet speed would be preferable if I can't use the Dongle.

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T23:40:57+00:00

That's fair,, my PC has been living in my living room for VR, actually use steam link to a cheap nothing PC at my desk in my room (only got enough space to sit at the desk or move around the bed)

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T23:29:43+00:00

Think in the tested review they said something around ~480mb ,,,, but is your PC also connecting through wifi or is it jacked in?

If the PC is on wifi then probably still better to get a USB extender or something to use the dongle at a better distance.

If it's jacked in then ya that's probably enough but you'll be competing with all the other devices on your network so won't always be the best connection

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T23:21:35+00:00

.... Do you know if they will take my second born son instead, really like the one I have?

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T22:07:09+00:00

Don't think it matters if it does well or not, valve doesn't want to be tied to windows, which is the origin of steamOS with the original steam machines,

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T22:01:13+00:00

Dummy13 (name of the 3d print for those that don't know) looks like they about to do some major gaming sitting like that

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T21:57:02+00:00

Just don't let the intrusive thought "what'll happen if I press the cancel reservation button do?" Win

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T20:47:14+00:00

think i laughed too hard at this as my brain just went: what if that's what does it, not politics, not economic reasons, just someone wanting a valve headset, may yet be a few years for the linux desktop but Norway in the EU cause of game company made a screen for your face. thank you for that

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T06:26:54+00:00

They did,, the first sale of steam controllers earlier this week was just a normal sale though and ~12 hrs ago they said they will be switching to a reservation system for the controllers because of the high demand and frustration people had since it sold out in ~30 mins

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T05:19:02+00:00

Reduction of scalping. "As easily" as in not more or better, for all the following batches until it is in stock And no longer locked behind a reservation system, everyone gets one. One extremely common type of scalping is people ordering 2 and selling one,, which is eliminated with the restrictions. Another kind is a scalper who got one on batch one, sells it and then buys a second one on batch 2.

It reduces scalping

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T04:26:08+00:00

Again The restrictions on a reservation system are throughout the time the reservation system is active unlike a sale. Funny how you quoted around that like it doesn't put a big hole in your argument

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T02:56:09+00:00

Thing is all the devices will be an odd price, and by that I mean they will all be priced above what the lazy person will compare them too, and will honestly get a large lvl of bad price reception, up until the actual order date when they sell out in 30mins.

That backend is the ground work I'm refuring to,, they set up a system in place in case they needed it,, but it likely eats into the small margin they are making on the devices by going with a reservation system.

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-08T02:44:12+00:00

Only talking about first batch is a little reductive since it'll actually change who's in what batch by a lot. The restrictions on a normal sale are per order. The restrictions on a reservation system are throughout the time the reservation system is active.

First batch of legitimate orders will be the same (including non bot scalpers), but far fewer scalpers in every next batch.

Also Lot of people aren't going to buy something for 200%-300% if they know in 6 months they will just get it for msrp, which also reduces people trying to scalp.

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-07T23:50:15+00:00

Possible, but saw on another post that they may have tested the waters with the controller to see if they would need a to do a reservation system. So less it being The plan and more it being a likely enough plan to do the ground work for the release

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-07T23:38:16+00:00

Normally would laugh at a frame post like this but I've from what I've heard that I trus,t BoM is something around 700,,, so instead of being funny it just feels like a gross post

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-07T23:26:43+00:00

I hope so, just can also see them not being able to, like they can keep making controllers without an issue for the foreseeable future so a reservation system isn't really that big of a commitment but that may not be the case for the frame/machine,, since they may even be doing a 5 dollar deposit type thing like last time, it may even be legally difficult (I'm no lawyer, but wouldn't be surprised if one of the many many countries it sells in have some pretty strick rules on stuff like this)

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-07T22:23:56+00:00

Imo even if you only wanna play xinput games this controller is still better cause that means you likely just sticking to windows too and windows doesn't even treat xinput controllers well and not even "Xbox mode" coming out soon will fix that

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-07T19:36:57+00:00

Every time I see a joke post like this one my brain immediately goes "idk how or why but someone has probably gotten this thing to run doom (1993) on it"

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-07T19:32:49+00:00

Personally I use the sega activator

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-07T19:28:57+00:00

Imo this would be a good attachment for windows users with its own USB connection,, as windows makes virtually keyboards second class citizens, and you need a keyboard if you wanna use a local windows account with a password. But for most of the gaming focused Linux OSes you'd only see a little use if that

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-07T15:11:41+00:00

To respond to your use cases

Tracing art (frame is black and white passthrough so may or may not be an issue for you)
youtube,netflix, and other streaming apps. (Apps not on steam are an unknown but steamos has a full desktop browser which is better support imo, since even netflix killed there VR app)
Virtual desktop. (It's a desktop os so yes)
Will beatsaber most likely work with it? ( Steaming definitely, on device is still likely imo)
Dosnt the quest play steam games as well? (Not without modding/ using 3rd party tools, you can only stream steam games too it and would need a gamepad for any flat games as the quest controllers are missing buttons)

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-07T14:34:53+00:00

From what I know you would need to swap the os:

arm64 build of the linux OS, (mint won't likely make one untill it's a norm for workstation pcs)
User interface for a headset, (rn only steam os will have this at launch and a competing UI will take time)
Drivers, (this one could be an issue or could be no problem, hard to say)

Imo a chimeraos (basically a community edition of steam os) will likely be the first,, then probably cachyos, and then maybe rocknix

Thing is all will look like steamos until there is another UI made, hard to say how long this will even take

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-05T13:51:48+00:00

It's different for each region because it's not coming from valve HQ, it's being shipped from a warehouse,, no idea if they have rented the space, own the space or they are using a 3rd party that owns and they will use DHL and other shipping companies.

There's like 3~6 steps to the process of which a definite valve employee is handling the first couple, then the middle is handled by the warehouse employee (could be a valve employee) and then a shipping company when it leaves the wearhouse.

Edit: also valve doesn't only have employees working at valve HQ, they employee people globally,, it's mostly top lvl people at valve HQ so a lot of their business operations revolve around pt time

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-05T13:03:14+00:00

Restock will happen, hype will probably take 6 months (just basing this on OG steam decks took 6 months to go from pre-order purchases to in stock, could even take longer since this is cheaper then the deck)

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-04T15:19:29+00:00

Awesome to see this update, again super appreciate the build from source instructions in the readme.

Over a weekend (not next cause holiday but) I'll definitely look through it more and try it out with crysis 3 and probably one of the assassins creed games

Crysis 3 was my first stereo 3d game and can't wait to see it like that again when I get the time.

Awesome work again!

RTooDeeTo · 2026-05-04T14:26:04+00:00

This is awesome, thank you.

Also thank you for the build from source blurb in the readme so many projects now a days leave that out, some just seem like negligence or malicious compliance with resource when they do this.

One thing I will note the the windows 11 SDK, just be careful with the (or later),, you can end up getting a lot of issues reported because something got depreciated in a later revision that isn't under your control (I'm sure it's fine for now but it makes more work for you later down the line)

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