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Yeah. Valve Index.
I originally got it working on a Ryzen 1700, and Vega64. But Vega64 is old GCN architecture and it performed poorly.
I have since upgraded the VR setup to Ryzen 5950x and Radeon 6900xt, and it works quite well. I just played an hour of Beat Saber actually.
That's very close to my setup of Valve Index, Ryzen 5700X and Radeon 6900XT. Maybe I should spend some more time investigating it.
Try using the monado runtime instead of SteamVR.
See Kawane Rio's 15 minute lightning talk about VR on Linux from this year's FOSDEM:
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5976-linux-vr-beginner-s-guide-on-how-to-join-events-in-virtual-reality-from-ubuntu-using-envision-and-monado-an-openxr-alternative-to-steamvr/
This lightning talk requires running SteamVR for the room setup bits, and it recommends a few things in the name of "user friendliness" that I would otherwise not suggest (Ubuntu bad, Gnome bad, etc). (edit: so switching to Monado wouldn't really help since it would require SteamVR working in the first place, and if SteamVR works... OP could just use SteamVR)
But it does show a lot of problems and solutions and things to try along the way.
Based on https://db.vronlinux.org/ (which is like protondb for VR, kinda), monado works better for VRChat, but otherwise SteamVR should honestly work just fine.