VR support for GNOME Wayland is here!
VR support for GNOME Wayland is here!
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This is actually pretty huge, props to the GNOME developers for this.
Hopefully VR support will improve on linux, literally the only reason I keep a windows drive around is for vr and nothing more.
I just play VR on Linux, don't really have many problems with it. Only small ones like sometimes SteamVR doesn't recognize my headset the first time I start it so I need to restart it once.
I don't use VR but I feel like this could help people trying to run VR games.
What would be interesting is if you could run gnome desktop on a VR headset
Awesome. Perhaps now there will be some renewed focus on screen reader support?
They are working on screen reader support, there was a blog post about that 2-5 days ago I think.
They've been doing quite a bit of work in the past year, on Newton, the future a11y stack, Spiel, for a better pipeline for speech synthesis (basically as an easy way to get more natural-sounding voice models) and on implementing AccessKit (the most recent stable a11y stack that is the same one the folks working on COSMIC are using).
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This is cool, but half the software I need to use still doesn’t work on Wayland for some inexplicable reason.
I know this is the responsibility of the software maintainer to fix their compatibility, but as a business user I don’t have time to go around filing detailed bug reports and waiting for the next release when it’s fixed.
The solution for me is to switch back to X11 and move along, then in another year I try Wayland again after installing a new distro. After a few hours I find something that isn’t working on Wayland, rinse and repeat.
Did you just come here to complain about Wayland in general? Which apps works with VR headsets under X11?
I truly do think this is a cool feature, but after seeing all the comments saying stuff like “now there’s ZERO excuse not to use Wayland!”, I felt like it was appropriate to share my perspective as a professional user who uses their computer a little differently than a FOSS enthusiast or hobbyist/casual user. I’m not getting paid to go around submitting bug reports and making PRs, so when things don’t “just work” it can be a big issue.
Felt. VR took priority over color management with ICC profiles & HDR which is more important for commercial & general entertainment applications. I've had to switch back to X11 too.
That something being probably Microsoft Teams piece of crap app or similar bullshit like Discord, all of which FOSS devs can’t do anything about even if they could. Or simply your system incompatibility like NVIDIA proprietary drivers.
If you expect everything to just work as if it was consumer OS that is fully supported by 3rd parties, Linux might not be the best choice for you in general.
I’m talking about FOSS software incompatibilities, I don’t have any expectation for mega corporate apps like Discord and Teams to adopt it. Those are a lost cause, I just use the browser versions and pray.
I truly do think this is a cool feature, but after seeing all the comments saying stuff like “now there’s ZERO excuse not to use Wayland!”, I felt like it was appropriate to share my perspective as a professional user who uses their computer a little differently than a FOSS enthusiast or hobbyist/casual user. I’m not getting paid to go around submitting bug reports and making PRs, so when things don’t “just work” it can be a big issue.
Yay. Maybe now can they focus on some of the things more than nine people in the world care about?
I'm not too sure I should celebrate such thing while you can't even get the weather for your location in GNOME unless you live in the capital
- You should, this is a huge achievement that has been worked on for quite a while now.
- You can, actually. I live in a pretty small town and it picks up my location quite well for the weather.
- Even if it didn't, one issue doesn't mean we're not allowed to celebrate anything, and the issue in this case isn't even with GNOME itself, but with the provider for the Weather app (I believe it's OpenWeather).
Nonsense. This is huge, as I suspect many people, like myself, switched to KDE because it was the DE that was perfect for gaming in Wayland.
So this is huge for the community! Gaming is now possible in two of the most popular and used DEs.
As for the weather application. Don't blame GNOME, blame the weather provider (OpenWeather).
The weather isn't openweather's fault. It's a limitation in libgweather (a gnome project). They have to manually approve locations for them to work.
It doesn't use open weather unfortunately. It uses the Norwegian Meteorology Institute and their weather prediction is poor/entirely inaccurate for much of the world. I do wish open weather was an option especially since it's easy to get your own weather api key.
It's a dumb workaround but this script lets you add custom locations https://gitlab.com/julianfairfax/scripts/-/blob/main/add-location-to-gnome-weather.sh
Thx but that doesn't make it more consumer ready. If someone looks the first time into gnome and he can't add his location he might think GNOME is bad because it can't even handle weather.
It's easier to create an alias to
curl wttr.in/Berlinand access weather data from terminal than using the workaround
That's not even true. Also how does this have to do with VR?
But who uses that? I recall using a gnome plugin a few years ago that required an Open weather API key that you could use any location for.
True, kind of silly you have to install an extension because the default gnome weather won't just let you use open weather.
Wrong place, wrong time