Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. Although the official inauguration occurred in 1945, the holiday became a non-labor day only in 1965, and only in certain Soviet republics.
The German Instrument of Surrender was signed twice. An initial document was signed in Reims on 7 May 1945 by Alfred Jodl (chief of staff of the German OKW) for Germany, Walter Bedell Smith, on behalf of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, and Ivan Susloparov, on behalf of the Soviet High Command, in the presence of French Major-General François Sevez as the official witness.
Since the Soviet High Command had not agreed to the text of the surrender, and because Susloparov, a relatively low-ranking officer, was not authorized to sign this document, the Soviet Union requested that a second, revised, instrument of surrender be signed in Berlin.
A second surrender ceremony was organized in a surviving manor in the outskirts of Berlin late on 8 May, when it was already 9 May in Moscow due to the difference in time zones.
During the Soviet Union's existence, 9 May was celebrated throughout it and in the Eastern Bloc. Though the holiday was introduced in many Soviet republics between 1946 and 1950, it became a non-working day only in the Ukrainian SSR in 1963 and the Russian SFSR in 1965
The celebration of Victory Day continued during subsequent years. The war became a topic of great importance in cinema, literature, history lessons at school, the mass media, and the arts. The ritual of the celebration gradually obtained a distinctive character with a number of similar elements: ceremonial meetings, speeches, lectures, receptions and fireworks.
Victory Day in modern Russia has become a celebration in which popular culture plays a central role. The 60th and 70th anniversaries of Victory Day in Russia (2005 and 2015) became the largest popular holidays since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Another SkyrimVR on linux post.
I swear to god it worked for a week. One glorious week when everything functioned exactly as intended. There was some jank, but no more than I would have expected from running a mod-heavy Skyrim install on Windows. Then Steam changed something.
I thought I could roll back to the previous version of SteamVR, and at first that seemed to work - but something else must have changed too, because now when I run that version of SteamVR Steam itself becomes the most unstable program I've ever seen. Every time I try to run SkyrimVR with it - even the unmodified base game - my entire graphics stack crashes and I have to reboot my computer with alt+prntscrn+REISUB to get it back. It also started crashing when I load up MO2, and sometimes freezing when I try to click on something in MO2, and sometimes crashing when I try to close MO2.
The most recent version of SteamVR has a problem where it simply doesn't start. VRStartup.sh just seems to hang forever until I force close it. For some reason I can't force close it from Steam itself, I have to force close it from System Monitor. Same thing happens for the [beta] branch. I tried the older version which says it's specifically for linux users, but it seems that none of my VR titles can "see" that version of the program since they all close instantly without even showing their logo in the headset. I've tried deleting everything and reinstalling fresh, but these issues keep reappearing. I've thought about reinstalling Debian from the top - but I think I've about burned myself out on this for now.
I'm not going back to Windows any time soon, but shit like this is why Linux still isn't ready for prime time, no matter what its most dedicated evangelists will tell you.
I don't even like Skyrim yet I am invested in your protracted people's war against Linux, Steam and VR. A true multi-front struggle.
Linux is not the bad guy, no one should have to be forced to run Bethesda's broken ass games through multiple translation layers. It's amazing that this is possible in the first place (proton is still extremely recent by FOSS standards)
I do love me some Proton, also nobody should be forced to run Bethesda's broken-ass games in general =) but yea
Windows users
Linux Users
Both suffering under Bethesda.
Mac users don't even get to play.
Mac users are lucky fuckers
Beth's insistence on using the Gamebryo engine they hacked together out of dog shit and devil magic back in the 1830s is one of hte greatest crimes of the 21st century. "It's not Gamebryo it's the Creation Engine!" shut the fuck up Todd no one believes your bullshit.
Companies that don't want to open source their software not for financial greed but because they don't want to be publicly humiliated for shitty spaghetti code.
That sucks. I tried modding New Vegas a few months back and the User Interface Organizer (required for the mod menu and updated hud mods to work) would CTD New Vegas. I couldn't figure out why. Proprietary software can be bullshit anytime it wants and you can't do a thing, especially with Bethesda games where you have to interface with Proton, Steam, MO2, and the buggy mess that are bethesda games + a shit ton of mods.
May I interest you in Bazzite? It's a Fedora Atomic Desktop image optimized specifically for gaming. It might be of interest to you since Debian is not the greatest at running games in my experience. I use it on my Nvidia machine that I use and it's incredibly convenient (like it even has Steam pre-installed even though I don't use it and use Lutris/GOG/Bottles)
You can hit me up with questions regarding Fedora atomic desktop or universal blue images like bazzite. I might be what you call an evangelist though (however all my converts have been happy so far).
That's interesting, New Vegas worked for me completely out of the box. I installed the entire Viva New Vegas mod pack and didn't have any issues.
Anyway like four hours after making this (very salty) post I decided to try switching from the flatpack version of Steam to the .deb version, and wouldn't you know that solved the problem I was having with the most recent version of Steam VR not launching. I'll post again in a couple days because I'm not nearly as burned out on this as I thought I was, lmao.
I'm glad it worked out for you. Steam is really weird like that since it's technically a self-updating application that's a black box on your system. Valve only supports the native deb package of Steam (but only on Ubuntu) so I guess you can say you're following the rules.
If it ever breaks again, bazzite's got your back :)