Just as a note: This runs the community version of Ubuntu Touch ( https://ubports.com/ ) via the Halium compatibility layer. It is a nice mobile phone OS and I use it on another former Android phone daily, but it is far from a "regular" GNU/Linux and requires quite some workarounds to run normal GNU/Linux desktop apps. If you are looking for an experience more like desktop Linux, better get a PinePhone. Although to be honest, as a phone OS Ubuntu Touch is actually better than desktop Linux.

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Does anyone know if the multiplayer and VR forks are planned to be included in the main version?

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Quoting: elmapuli wonder why its easier to reverse enginering an game than making an free open source alternative to it...
it shouldnt be

Actually no. Making an engine for an existing game is much easier. You have a fixed target and all the art assets are already done.

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A pity that there isn't more collaboration on OpenXR. Playstation VR supperd on Linux PCs via Monado and Steam would be cool for example ;)

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Quoting: ageres

Quoting: JuliusAnd it even got a FOSS engine reimplementation:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freecs-1-5/

Is it for CS 1.5 only? I've just tried it, at it seems very unfinished with its instant reloading, sway, weird recoil and shooting, etc. I've also tried Xash3D-FWGS, and while it can run Half-Life, it doesn't support CS yet.

CS 1.5 was the last freeware version and also generally most liked by the original CS community. Not sure what you mean with unfinished, as far as I can tell it is quite faithful to CS 1.5, but my memory might be playing tricks on me ;)

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And it even got a FOSS engine reimplementation:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freecs-1-5/

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VR games mostly. Budget Cuts is super immersive and Wolfenstein Cyberpilot as well. With a few exceptions VR also runs great these days with Proton. Really better than I expected when I got my second hand HTC Vive Pro.

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While currently not of much use, this does seem like something that could break the close-source GPU driver dilemma Linux has on many systems: If the GPU vendor releases a minimal Vulkan API, a bit like a firmware and the rest runs on an open Mesa stack.

Of course a fully open driver stack would be preferable, but it is not only Nvidia that isn't willing to go down that path.

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While out of stock right now, the PineBookPro is such a laptop with a reasonably fast SoC. It comes with Manjaro Linux pre-installed.

Skype actually works fine in the browser these days.

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I think OpenVR (aka SteamVR) is separate of Valve's OpenXR efforts. Basically think of it as a way for developers from other platforms (Occulus, which also seems to support OpenXR) to more easily port their games over to Steam. So Monado isn't really competition in that sense but rather one more reason for developers to use OpenXR instead of the Occulus SDK.

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