Will this game support Linux?

[Ginger Jesus: NetBSD evangelist]

I have Valve Index and run Ubuntu 18.04. Will I be able to play this game?

Update: Reporting shows that it will:

• Half-Life: Alyx Releasing In March 2020 With Linux Support[www.phoronix.com]
  
• Michael Larabel: "I was told (unofficially) that it shows like that on the Steam page until the Linux system requirements are added/determined."[www.phoronix.com]

Update 2: Reporting shows that it may not be coming to Linux:

• Valve: "Right now we can only confirm windows for this product"[www.gamingonlinux.com]

Update 3: Valve has said, on the record, that

Originally posted by Valve Corporation:

The game will be playable on Proton with DX11 at launch. Post-launch, we'll be aiming to provide Vulkan and Linux support through subsequent updates.

Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/half-life-alyx-support-for-linux-aiming-to-arrive-with-vulkan-support-post-release.16244

Update 4: It looks like the game is on the Steam Play whitelist already. Source: https://steamdb.info/app/891390/history/?changeid=7988493

Update 5: There's now a depot named Half-Life: Alyx - Linux Binaries.[steamdb.info]

Update 6: Native Linux support is here:
https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/546560/view/3758762298552654077

[testman]

With the push towards Linux that Valve is making, I believe it should.

[A Trusted Friend In Science™]

Source 2 supports Linux based operating systems natively, so yeah it will work.

[Ginger Jesus: NetBSD evangelist]

Originally posted by A Trusted Friend In Science™:

Source 2 supports Linux based operating systems natively, so yeah it will work.

That's true, but all of Valve's previous VR games (including Robot Repair which uses Source 2) are Windows only. Although, SteamVR Home is Source 2 and supports Linux, so who knows?

[Ginger Jesus: NetBSD evangelist]

Alright, the store page is up. The game is Windows only:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/546560/HalfLife_Alyx/

[testman]

Well I hope that Valve brings it to Linux as soon as possible. "No tux no bux" rule still has higher priority than all the hype.

[asdf]

Originally posted by testman:

Well I hope that Valve brings it to Linux as soon as possible. "No tux no bux" rule still has higher priority than all the hype.

i hope there will be a non-vr version

do we know if it uses VULKAN?

[Ginger Jesus: NetBSD evangelist]

Originally posted by asdf:

do we know if it uses VULKAN?

We don't know for a fact, but the Linux versions of both Dota Underlords and SteamVR require Vulkan.

[Tori]

I hope this gets Linux support

[Sir Léon | NAFO]

Hm... i dind´t thought valve is giving up linux support :(

[mikhail]

VR exclusivity doesn't bother me. The lack of Linux support at the sales start stops me to order the Valve Index right now.

[Al@rm]

+1
What about Linux?

There is only windows https://www.half-life.com/en/alyx (((

Please, Valve, add Linux!

[Ginger Jesus: NetBSD evangelist]

Originally posted by mikhail.v.gavrilov:

VR exclusivity doesn't bother me. The lack of Linux support at the sales start stops me to order the Valve Index right now.

I would do the same thing, but I already own Valve Index hardware! If I had known that the "flagship VR game" was going to be Windows only, I wouldn't have bought the hardware in the first place.

[asdf]

i think linux versions work differently depending ob the VR headset you are using, so i think it is even more complex to make a linux version
maybe linux support for INDEX only

[Leaf_It]

Valve will quite likely add support either before launch, or shortly after.

[Ginger Jesus: NetBSD evangelist]

Originally posted by asdf:

i think linux versions work differently depending ob the VR headset you are using, so i think it is even more complex to make a linux version
maybe linux support for INDEX only

I pretty sure that's the problem that OpenVR and SteamVR are supposed to solve. As long as the hardware supports SteamVR, it should work with any OpenVR game. I might be mistaken though.