With the work that Valve is doing on Wine, and Proton, it's really becoming easier and easier to justify the switch deck.

FTFY

Tried getting PCVR working with the Quest 2, unfortunately support is still a hot mess and leaves the system with a super janky flood of audio devices, in addition to legendary stutters that make it unplayable. Win11 still better for VR.

Only pita setback is things like fortnite and other multi-player games insisting on only using anticheat software that isn't Linux compatible.

I actually still have some old servers with chips from that period, one of them is still being used as my firewall but until last year I was using others to run multiple VMs for email and web sites. Not as power-efficient but they do still work.

Don't you wish... 😜

Is it really that hard to include a fallback though? Obviously there's a way to collect the information without that flag. I suppose if you didn't want to take a performance hitting checking the flag all the time it could become a compile option (I would think anyone running that old of hardware would be willing to learn how to compile the kernel anyway), but there should be options available to keep the support available some how?

Oh I've set up a couple of those at work! Their systems seem to be rock-solid (at least I've heard no complaints over the last few years), and their tech support is outstanding. Good luck with your new shiny!

I don't think the venn diagram for people relying on pro-audio and using 20 year old computers has a large overlap.

Also there's lots of industry tools where you can't really use anything but Windows. Even if you could technically make it work, it isn't a good idea because of how critical the system you're interfacing with is.

Sure, but only a fraction will be saved. It’s criminal how much ewaste Apple and Microsoft are responsible for. That’s what happens when people are taught that profits can only increase year on year.