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Re: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

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Post by e1ven »

davesmith1983 wrote: post #13

This is going to be another compiz cube. It looks cool, but I doubt it will be very useful outside of showing off some cool tech. Also Valve tbh have dropped a lot of their more interesting tech. I had one of their steam links which isn't even sold anymore. The steam link was actually pretty useful for steaming anything on your desktop, I am sure you can do the same with a Raspberry Pi and some scripts but it worked…

Not to go too far off-topic, but if you haven't tried them -

I've found that the steam link apps for other platforms (ios/android) work very well. I'm not sure Valve needs dedicated hardware for this anymore.

I have a steamlink in the closet, but being able to do it in software is nice.

Re: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

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Post by davesmith1983 »

e1ven wrote: post #21
davesmith1983 wrote: post #13

This is going to be another compiz cube. It looks cool, but I doubt it will be very useful outside of showing off some cool tech. Also Valve tbh have dropped a lot of their more interesting tech. I had one of their steam links which isn't even sold anymore. The steam link was actually pretty useful for steaming anything on your desktop, I am sure you can do the same with a Raspberry Pi and some scripts but it worked…

Not to go too far off-topic, but if you haven't tried them - I've found that the steam link apps for other platforms (ios/android) work very well. I'm not sure Valve needs dedicated hardware for this anymore. I have a steamlink in the closet, but being able to do it in software is nice.

If you have steam installed on anything you can just stream to that device as long as they are on the same network.

Re: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

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Post by Zak »

derekp7 wrote: post #18
Zak wrote: post #4

I've been wanting the option of a VR desktop for a while now. Last I looked, it wasn't ready for prime time, and that's still my impression now. I find a small 16:9 screen pretty unacceptable for coding, and the market currently offers very limited options for anything taller in a laptop. I'm eager to see where this goes, and may need to start shopping for a head-mounted display.

I care more about vertical resolution, and vertical height, more than about aspect ratio. So with 3k and 4k getting more popular on higher end laptops, the 16:9 doesn't bother me as much. I can keep a code window on one side and documentation (or program output) on the other side of the screen. The only other drawback of 16:9 is that in order to get an acceptable height, it makes the laptop too wide. My solution is t…

I can imagine that solution working, but what I'd really like to see is some serious business laptops offering 3:2 screens, or 16:12 for that matter. The screen from the large iPad Pro would be perfect on a laptop.

Re: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

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Post by larrik »

davesmith1983 wrote: post #13

This is going to be another compiz cube. It looks cool, but I doubt it will be very useful outside of showing off some cool tech. Also Valve tbh have dropped a lot of their more interesting tech. I had one of their steam links which isn't even sold anymore. The steam link was actually pretty useful for steaming anything on your desktop, I am sure you can do the same with a Raspberry Pi and some scripts but it worked…

I love the Link, I use it all the time. I even bought a spare.

Re: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

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Post by skykooler »

davesmith1983 wrote: post #13

This is going to be another compiz cube. It looks cool, but I doubt it will be very useful outside of showing off some cool tech. Also Valve tbh have dropped a lot of their more interesting tech. I had one of their steam links which isn't even sold anymore. The steam link was actually pretty useful for steaming anything on your desktop, I am sure you can do the same with a Raspberry Pi and some scripts but it worked…

Compiz cube was what convinced me to try Linux in the first place - I had always thought of it as a boring server OS, but then I saw the desktop cube and wobbly windows and thought "that looks cool enough to try it out." Hopefully this could have a similar result for some people who have VR headsets.

Re: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

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Post by dreamcompiler »

gmueckl wrote: post #8
Zak wrote: post #4

I've been wanting the option of a VR desktop for a while now. Last I looked, it wasn't ready for prime time, and that's still my impression now. I find a small 16:9 screen pretty unacceptable for coding, and the market currently offers very limited options for anything taller in a laptop. I'm eager to see where this goes, and may need to start shopping for a head-mounted display.

The current generation of headsets is unsuited for showing large amounts of reasonably sized text. The display resolution is not there yet. If you map your desktop into a plane in VR space at the proper distance, your UI text shows up heavily aliased and barely readable due to the texture resampling that happens in that process. You need to increase resolution by another factor of two or three to make that actually c…

Lighter, higher-resolution headsets + full keyboard control = 3D Emacs!

Re: Moving the Linux desktop to another reality

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Post by dreamcompiler »

FigBug wrote: post #10
skrowl wrote: post #3

I really wish the "Yay, linux on the desktop" crowd would rally around ChromeOS. ChromeOS is literally what the "linux on the desktop" crowd has been wanted for decades now.

Can you run a 'normal' Linux desktop application written in C or C++ on a Chromebook? Or is it just Android Apps and Web Apps?

You certainly can if you install Linux on your Chromebook. I've been using my Chromebook this way for years. But I use a real Linux distro independent of Google (my system will not run Android apps). I have no idea if Google's relatively recent Linux offering works as well.
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