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I don't think I really need to talk much more about what I've been playing, because it's quite obviously ARC Raiders whenever I get the chance to. I now have somehow lost 45 hours of my life to this thing, to the point where I've been dreaming about running through it. How wild. This is also another great excuse to show off some more cool screenshots I took during my runs of it. You might have spotted the dance party me and a few other random groups had in the recent Proton Experimental update article too.
ARC Raiders is just screenshot bait quite often, it really does some fantastic things with lighting and world-building that I keep coming across things thinking "oooh cool!", and then bang — dead. Another raider comes over to take everything from me, although I went in with a free loadout. Hah, sucker! Enjoy your nothing!
Here's a few snaps a took recently:
Apologies to the partner, they had to buy a copy because I'm so hooked on it. But hah, now they are too!
ARC Raiders is doing some impressive numbers on Steam too, hitting an all-time peak player count of 462,488 recently. That's a lot, especially when you consider it's a multi-platform game. It's been beating the likes of Battlefield 6 and Rust, even coming pretty close to the constant player count of PUBG.
So, what have you been playing lately (and why isn't it ARC Raiders?).
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clatterfordslim 3 hours ago
I'm interested on your feedback, cause I need a new updated distro and I'm hesitating with the same 3 distro you use. Did you have any issue with any of those?
I was very happy with xubuntu back in the days, and also with mint ^^ I'm looking into CachyOS for the gaming optimisation, but I also enjoy the ease of use from Mint, and the lightweight approach of Xubuntu as well as it's simple and customizable UI.
I customise the hell out of Xubuntu, remove Snapd altogether. I have my own dedicated theme for it Orchis-Grey-Dark and Sardi-Ghost-Flexible icons. It took me three or so years to find the perfect theme, not just for Xfce but for other Environments too. Linux Mint I always delete their themes and icon themes, as they have horrible undershoot lines in their themes and it makes the experience, well for me unbearable.
I use mint for Davinci Resolve and as my everyday OS at the moment, but am thinking about moving onto MX-Linux Xfce, as just got myself a AMD RX 9060 XT with 16GB of VRAM. When it comes to Linux, depends on your use case. I have three dedicated gaming PC's, all with RYZEN 5700x eight cores sixteen threads, more than enough oomph to play the latest games, my chosen card for gaming is NVIDIA 4060 TI with 16GB of VRAM. The reason why I got the AMD 9060 was because got fed up with Ubuntu 24.04 based Distros, including Mint and Xubuntu having to go into safe graphics on installation, reminding me of the good old Ubuntu Gnome 2 days of old, when NVIDIA drivers were a pain to install, especially on a cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitor, the resolution would go up to 800x600 leaving you having to count the amount of times you pressed the tab button to set the correct resolution of 1024x768. Although these days with bigger and lighter monitors, when in safe graphic mode on installation, 1024x768 does display correctly, although everything larger than life.
Cachy OS Xfce version is really good, because you can pick out on the installation screen in Calamares what you want installed. I go for the minimalist as I can, still leaving Cachy OS's settings, but not installing their themes, as I use my own.
The only gripe I have had with Cachy OS is their update notification, which you can enable to be present on the panel like Mint's one but faster. It started updating from the AUR instead of just from Cachy OS repositories. Can easily reinstall and not enable the update notification, as just use terminal. I always set the terminal in Cachy back to bash, as I find Fish a funny little creature, plus used to bash, as that is where all my Terminal Alias commands are written for. Arch and Debian based systems.
The rules in Arch are weird, as I can in a Debian based Distro uninstall Thunar and have Nemo as my default, but in Arch no, but can set Nemo as default. Another gripe is opening internal storage drives, always asks for permission, but never on a external drive. Surely an external drive should have permissions to open as well? Internal drives should not need permissions, as obviously they are internal, but the problem is, is that Arch sees internal drives as a threat.
So what sort of Linux are you after? Light weight, lots of screen effects, bloated out ones???
hardpenguin 2 hours ago
pentadrago 1 hour ago
Although I should know after playing lots of games on it I'm still impressed how good AC Origins looks and plays on the Deck.
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