I been waiting on a few things to get fixed(specifically on Linux Mint) to make my transition to it from Windows 10, so I thought I’d make a forum post on progress so far and what I’ve faced.

My system:

• Ryzen 7 7800x3D
• Nvidia RTX 4070 ti
• (meta) Oculus Quest 2

Ram, ssd, etc are unnecesary as the only things that affect compatibility are CPU and GPU. CPU-wise I have no issues, but as of right now there is a minor GPU issue, namely performance for NVidia drivers isn’t the best.

-From what I’ve seen, Nvidia graphics performance(running the latest drivers available on Mint) is about ~10% worse than on Windows, but expected to be equal(or better, like it is with AMD currently) in the near future as NVidia has been gearing up investment. Either way, performance with my 4070 ti is more than good enough right now(90fps with few to no stutters or dips below that in a world with ~20 people, all avatars shown).

-Compatibility has been the biggest issue. ALVR is trash for NVidia users, so I went with WiVRn, and it works great so far(setup took under 5 minutes, no code, no terminal, nothing). Sadly it uses OpenXR instead of steamVR so openning the Desktop is a no go as far as I could find(I made a feature request in their github so this may change).

-SteamVR is absolutely unuseable, full of many years old bugs and no expectation from Valve to fix any of it, or make it work for people like me who have the Quest 2 and want to use it on Linux. With OpenXR and WiVRn thankfully we got a working alternative.

-VRChat overall works fine, but requires to be run using Proton Experimental(the official version, 9.0-4 won’t load videos properly). I’ve reported the issue and made a note to devs on proton’s github in the hopes whatever fixed things for experimental to be brought, without the need for any commands or extra arguments, to the next official release.

If you, like me, came across the issue where steam “forgets” your second/third SSD, here’s an easy way to solve it:

1. Open the “Disks” app.
2. Click/Select a disk having the issue.
3. Click the Gear/Settings/Config icon.
4. disable “User Session Default”.
5. Make a folder anywhere(In my case, I did inside /home/peq42), name it something like “mounted drives”.
6. Copy the folder’s address(In my case: /home/peq42/mounted drives  ).
7. Back on the disks app, where it says “mount point”, replace whatever is, before the final forward slash, with the address you copied before.
8. Click “Ok”
9. Repeat 1 through 8 for all the disks, except folder creation.
10. Restart your computer
11. On Steam, go to Settings > Storage
12. Add those drives

The reason why steam was “forgetting” your drives was because everything mounted on /mnt/ is “temporary”, and the address name changes on restart.

I’ve done the above on Linux Mint(22.3), but should work on later versions too. Most linux distributions have a “disks” app you can use for this and follow more or less the same steps but, in case you don’t, search online “how to mount drives to a folder” and do it to the folder you make following whatever tutorial you find.

This should also fix problems with other programs having a hard time reading files/accepting drag and drop from /mnt/ mounted drives.

And I’m not sorry about you.

If you, half way through 2026, still trust Elon Musk, the biggest rat in this planet, you deserve to get fucked.

The stocks, which you can’t sell until spacex workers and elon himself dumps it into the market as a way to cash out, at your cost, will fall to nothing and your dumb ass will be left holding the bag.

You are an idiot. Congratz.

VRChat just recently(around friday) added a new beta to the steam version: it now uses Unity 6!

I personally tested it and performance seemed a bit better, but some friends with slower PCs have reported 2x FPS improvement(one went from 20fps average on a world with ~15 people to 40fps)

So far the biggest concern, shaders not working due to changes in the render pipeline, didn’t seem to happen at all! Neither me nor any of my friends came across issues!

Finally vrc, after years, is updating the unity version!

To get it go to your Steam Library -> Right Click VRChat -> Properties -> Game Versions and Betas and there select “unity-6“

For people like me who care about privacy, there’s a browser extension that allows to bypass age verification on Xitter:

1. Use firefox or firefox based browser(like Waterfox, Librewolf, etc)
2. Install InsensitiveX
3. Enjoy

It’s literally that simple and I there’s basically nothing else to write, but I wanted to share because I found it in a random reddit comment and thought it was quite useful.

The extension has about 10,000 users and worked just fine for me, so it should be safe. It basically loads images marked as NSFW without asking for stupid age verification(which, mind you, doesn’t work. Even if you age verify in the app, which I couldn’t find an option for anywhere, the browser version will keep asking).

And as a side note: fuck you and die Elon.

Here’s a very good and short comment posted by user “-Angilas-” on blender’s reddit that I found recently while trying to figure out how to loop both the Ocean modifier AND its Foam in recent versions of blender(they posted a year ago, but tested on 5.1.2 just today and it works):

1. Create a Plane.
2. Add a SubSurface Modifier with 6 subdivisions (click “Simple”, not “Catmull-Clark”).
3. Create an Ocean Modifier with the desired settings.
4. Copy the ocean modifier(There’s an option to “Duplicate” it on the dropdown next to it).
5. Animate the Time and Scale of each ocean modifier to blend into each other:
6. So, for example, the first modifier could animate from Time: 20 to 40 and the second from Time: 0 to 20.
7. Then the first modifier will loop from Scale: 1 to 0 and the second from Scale: 0 to 1. (This way the second will end where the first begins.)
8. Make sure the first one’s Geometry: is set to Generate and the second one’s Geometry: is set to Displace. (You can set both to Displace, but this will probably require decreasing “Size” (don’t confuse with “Scale”)… and it will likely be a bit more unruly.)
9. Now, give each Foam Data Layer it’s own name in the modifiers. So name the “Foam Data Layer” for the first one “Foam 1” and the second “Foam 2”.
10. Now, fade between these in the Material Shader Nodes(Material Tab) by using two Attribute Nodes(Shift+A > Attribute), one that points to “Foam 1” and the other to “Foam 2”. Depending on your version of Blender, you may have to specify “Type: Geometry” in said nodes.
11. Animate from one to the other using the MixRGB Node(Mix Color). The animated Factor value should loop from 0 to 1. (Don’t loop from 0 to 1 to 0, your loop should complete between 0 and 1.)
12. Go into the Graph Editor and select all the curves, then set to Linear Interpolation (use the “T” key).
13. Then CTRL+Shift+M to add Cycles modifiers to all the curves in the graph.

This is important: It might not loop in Material Shading view, but if you did it right, it should loop in Render View.

I tested and it worked flawlessly! Though it did add quite a bit of processing time for each frame. Hopefully something that will get improved over time(or that can be tweaked with different settings and, if so, I’ll update here)

Here are some examples, so far, of how AI code slop has made not only software but websites and online services worse since its (forced) adoption:

• AI made Windows 11 the worst, buggiest version of windows ever
• AI made Github’s uptime fall below 90%
• AI made AWS more unstable than ever(even deleted a whole database of theirs)
• AI made bluesky go down for hours 4 times in a month
• AI made NVidia drivers buggier than ever, worse than AMD’s on windows
• AI made Youtube slower and buggier than it has ever been. Multiple down times in a year.
• AI made Google search basically unuseable.

And these are just some that came to mind. As I remember more, or other cases happen, I’ll update this list.

In case you were searching online on whether or not to a certain service is a scam and ended in this post, here’s a list of garbage and likely scam services that will steal your money and give you a virus:

1. MMOEXP – Scam website/service, sent bots here to try and advertise their garbage and left.
2. U4GM – Same as above, probably exactly same creators, spammed a bunch.
3. Rsorder – Posted by the same bot who posted the mmoexp one, its a scam, will steal your OSRS/RS3 account.
4. IGGM – Also posted by bots, hosted in China, its a scam service selling fake game items.
5. U4N – Yet another “trade items here” scam.

AVOID THEM.

These are fake websites that promise either cheap/free currency in games or that “”allow you to trade”” with other players. None of them are official, all likely a scam/will give you a virus/steal your account.

And judging by how often they try and post spam in my forums for their gabage, always with similar copy-paste, I’d assume its all the same person(can’t be a bot, as I’ve a few layers of bot protection).

I’ll update as new stupid people make accounts here to (try to) spam the forums. Obviously I’ll never approve any garbage spam post like theirs.

Btw: thanks google for letting people make 500 e-mail accounts on your platforms to send spam.

With Windows going from garbage to literally unuseable, many are migrating to Linux. And with migration, comes questions we all had at one point or another.

Here are the answers to some of the most common questions:

• Do I need to use the Terminal?
  NO. Almost nothing will require that. Old tutorials will give you commands to do things, but they are not needed 99% of the time.
• Will Games run?
  90% of games run without issues on Linux. Some better than on Windows. Check protondb.com to see if a specific one you like does.
• Are Nvidia Drivers/GPUs okay on Linux?
  Yes. For a few years now.
• What distribution to use?
  Linux Mint, Bazzite, Ubuntu, Fedora. Those are the best, in order of ease of use. Pick one of them and you’ll be fine, and always be able to find some tutorial, video or tool that works on them and does whatever you’re trying to do.
• How do I migrate from Windows?
  In the question above I linked how to migrate to Linux Mint and Bazzite. Everything else is basically the same, with the same tools.
• Does VR work fine?
  Depends on your headset. Meta Quest(2, 3, PRO, etc) all work just fine(Personally I recommend using wivrn). Anything from Valve works perfectly(Index and Steam Frame). Other brands might not work as well.
• My favorite program doesn’t work, what now?
  If you use adobe software, or something else that simply doesn’t work: Change to alternatives, companies like adobe are garbage. If you can’t switch, try a dual-boot with windows just to run them.
• Don’t download from an App’s website?
  Linux distributions have a thing called “software manager”. It’s like an app store. ALWAYS try finding what you want there first. It will make your life easier.

I saw a lot of comments and questions on whether or not having a Nvidia GPU still is problematic for Linux users.

The answer is: it works just fine.

At least for the past few years, Nvidia drivers have been okay on Linux and nowadays performance and feature support are basically the same as on Windows. On top of that, the way you update/switch between drivers is honestly easier on Linux.

On Linux Mint For example:

The system comes with a driver manager app that lets you pick which version of the driver to use. You click one > apply changes > restart and that’s it.

And I bet other popular distributions like Bazzite, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc are the same.