Considering Beat Saber already works on Linux just fine, and it isn’t particularly demanding/runs fine on less powerful standalone headsets, I imagine it’ll work.
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This is one of the changes I’m most frustrated with, and one I didn’t expect. Maybe it feels worse for me because I didn’t expect it, unlike some of the other compromises.
I’ll still buy one, but I don’t like this change.
EDIT: The other big disappointment that I knew was possible but didn’t expect was the loss of Lighthouse tracking.
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Linux@programming.dev•GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend"
3·2 months agoMost Wayland compositors come with screensaver and screen lock functionality. Some have an API for custom screensavers.
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Linux@programming.dev•Linux Firmware Service Calls on Hardware Makers to Help Fund It
9·5 months agoI have a couple Dell laptops (from my work) with firmware in LVFS, and it is so nice how easy it is to use. I hope that this change encourages the biggest vendors to give some money to help keep it going.
Remote Wayland, no, as it isn’t network transparent like X11 is. You can still do remote desktops, though, usually with RDP or VNC. On the popular modern toolkits, this works out about the same, since drawing applications through X11 is not so common anymore.
Personally, the main thing keeping me on Xorg is support for global keybinds. Plasma and GNOME both have support for the XDG portal which mostly addresses this, but apps still needs to adopt it. Plasma also has a workaround for global keybindings, but I don’t use that. Sway doesn’t have any good solutions for this last time I checked.
Overall, I like Wayland more but I need support for global keybindings for at least a couple programs I regularly use.
Personally, I have trouble continuing to buy from Bandcamp since they were sold to another company which promptly had a round of layoffs.
On the other hand, games rely on Gog Galaxy for some features, and Galaxy is not available for all platforms which they sell games for (specifically, Linux).

If you do decide to get the Steam Machine, you can stream from there to get a lot more out of the Steam Frame than what it can do standalone.