News of Oculus Rift preorders is bittersweet at best for Linux users. The first consumer version of the Rift will be Windows-only, with Linux support a vague promise for the future. But it wasn’t always this way.
In the beginning, Linux support was something Oculus was actively developing. The original Oculus SDK released in mid-2013 (Version 0.2.3) added support for Linux. Red Hat’s Richard Jones blogged about his experience with it in August of that year: “Surprisingly, using Linux is not a problem at all,” he wrote, finding it offered a basically plug-and-play experience on Linux. “How the world has moved on,” he wrote.
Then Oculus changed its mind. In a May 2015 blog post titled “Powering the Rift,” Oculus came right out and said it was prioritizing Windows support over all else.
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3023400/linux/linux-gamers-shouldnt-preorder-the-oculus-rift-with-linux-development-on-hold.html
Submitted by: Arnfried Walbrecht
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