user_901925786032222 wrote:
Agreed. It's not as though the Rift was sold under the pretence of supporting linux. Spending that much money and just assuming it will support everything you want it to is pretty entitled.
Yes, the Rift was not sold under the pretence of supporting Linux. But that's a pretty weak and evasive argument as to why it's still not possible for Meta to simply support other operating systems not named Windows. (Hell, it doesn't even support MacOS, which is 2nd rank after Windows) Like c'mon. We're in 2022. Most games and applications these days even support at least MacOS out-of-the-box as additional OS. All of this should be possible, especially, again, for a billion dollar company that has more than enough money to gain the resources necessary to program and develope these applications. And if anything, the open source community is gladly open for helping with development. That Linux gains more and more recognition and support is evident by the fact the companies like Microsoft have WSL to let Windows run Linux programs (most likely Docker), Apple making Rosetta 2 work in Linux VM guest systems, Google working on Fuchsia's binary compatibility to run Linux code on their own (likely proprietary) kernel, Valve working on Steam OS, etc.
Nobody is entitled here to anything, but in 2022, companies should definitely be able to support cross-platform applications. There are more than enough frameworks available, such like Electron, that allow the building of applications that can be cross-compiled and run on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It's time to go forward in time and not backwards.