Direct question… does this have any value for a Steam game, given Steam already does this? Might be very worthwhile for Heroic launcher or something, but if I play mostly on Steam on Linux do I have any reason to care about this?

Amethyst is amazing, so happy with it so far, have used it for both Nexus mods and some BepinEx Thunderstore mods, works great for each. So nice to have a native option.

Oh, that’s fantastic to hear. I’ve been quite annoyed as well, and don’t really want a local video player, even with good options. I mostly just want to poke around YouTube, poke around for something stupid like a guy base jumping with a 360 camera, say “that’s neat”, and go back to gaming on it. Having to find some YT downloader to sit in the middle of that kinda ruins the appeal, even if it would work.

Thanks for the tip! I’d seen them on the steam page and wondered if they were important/worth playing first.

Yeah, I also got to play through Black Mesa as my first ever HL1 experience last year! Very cool, although uh… not especially balanced for controller, VR evens the scales a bit, which is why I waited for the Steam Frame rather than playing them back to back.

I’m finding the experience pretty interesting. The game is great, ofc, but I’m finding VR affects it in a few ways. Firstly, way scarier, I have a visceral “hell no” reaction to head crabs here that I didn’t in Black Mesa. I’m also finding some of the puzzles much harder for whatever reason, I think because of the sense of scale and immersion. Need to put more thought into exactly why that is though. Gunplay is dramatically better than it was on a controller, ofc. I still need practice, but I can pretty reasonably go for headshots now and aim fast enough for head crabs.

All in all, solid experience, eager to finish it. I’ve got a lot of story questions and such too, which is rad. I must be one of the only people playing HL2 spoiler free around. Also eager to play Alyx too, ofc, and see how that differs in that it’s designed bespoke for VR.

Oh, excellent! I didn’t realize that wasn’t already supported, but that’ll be an excellent feature for when I get to it (Currently working through HL2 VR, my first ever playthrough of HL2).

Good tip! I’ll definitely be checking this out, as someone who also uses Qwen3.8 27B. The capability leap over the model I used before is definitely worthwhile, but wow does it overthink really easily.

Alternate recommendation (if you’re not already in Mod Organizer), I tried Amethyst Mod Manager recently, and it was fantastic. Full support for everything I used to do in MO2, even Jabberwocky lists. Bonus: it also has support for Thunderstore/BepinEx modded games, it’s a pretty darn impressive Linux-native all in one modding solution.