Features missing or broken from Linux VR:

Major issues:

  1. Firmware update features completely missing on Linux
  2. Missing Motion Smoothing (comfort/performance, aids with frame drops)

Minor issues:

  1. Custom maps in Half-Life Alyx mostly don't work
  2. Volume control in SteamVR overlay doesn't work
  3. Broken Missing audio input/output selector so you have to reconfigure your audio every time you start or stop SteamVR
  4. General stability issues / bugs. Not usually serious ones but they seem more common on Linux.
  5. Switching refresh rates on the Index requires rebooting SteamVR
  6. SteamVR Room Setup crashes on Index (see SteamVR Bug #419)
  7. Valve's own The Lab doesn't work properly in Linux
  8. No GNOME DRM leasing support (mutter issue, not SteamVR at fault)

Resolved long-term issues:

  1. Missing power management for lighthouses so you have to pull the power and power drain them to power them on
  2. Extreme latency and jitter on overlay
  3. (nvidia) No Async reprojection (major issue, comfort/motion sickness)
  4. Nvidia tearing when any gsync monitor is plugged in
  5. Exit VR button not implemented
  6. Exit VR button in dashboard doesn't work (again)
  7. Extreme timing issues causing constant frame drops multiple times per second even with very little load
  8. Half-Life: Alyx doesn't show Linux support
  9. (nvidia/fixed?) Performance is poor if Maximum Performance is not enforced with Nvidia Settings. (Workaround - Feral's game mode now has a setting to force Nvidia perf modes and then drop it back down when the application closes. This can be used on the SteamVR tool itself.)
  10. (nvidia/fixed?) Latency on basically everything (motion sickness) (possibly related to the above, very hard to diagnose as it seems to vary even within the same application)