Post #4478714
2026-08-10 05:13 UTC
linux desktop users, i have some questions, related to "hm, maybe ill reinstall my desktop some day from windows to linux"
is there something like nix i can use to declaratively manage everything on the system but with an actually good, usable language that didn't come out of some guy's fever dreams and wasn't made just for nix?is vrchat on linux well supported? what about streaming vrchat on linux to a oculus quest 3 over the network?for applications that can't run on linux at all and need a windows VM, is there good hw accelerated 3d graphics yet that can be passed through to vms while also being used on the host, or is the only option just "pass through the host gpu"? if passthrough is the only option tbh that's a deal breaker, since a few pieces of software I use are windows only and don't run under wine at all (ie. full visual studio, and no, rider and vscode are not what i prefer for this, don't bring it up)
Replies (2)
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@doskel@masto.doskel.net 2026-08-10 05:25
@pearl@fedi.rrr.sh guix is cool, lisp, and also doesn't work very well
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@siblingsofthevoid@void.lgbt 2026-08-10 05:33
@pearl@fedi.rrr.sh - you could look into guix. not tried it but people say it's good - vrchat works well on linux, but you should probably use the FOSS runtime Monado, since it runs MUCH better on linux. more info here: https://wiki.vronlinux.org/ - For a VM, you can only pass through the GPU if you are either willing not to have a host or have an iGPU the host can use temporarily. This isn't a limitation of the GPU, but of how the PCIe passthrough works. IIRC it is possible to automatically unload and load the drivers on the fly, but it takes some tinkering with scripts.