Quoting: Cyba.CowboyI haven't used CUPS in years...

That's not actually true ;-). Gnome and KDE use avahi and cups-browsed for auto discovery and register the printers automatically with cups. So you are using cups, even if you don't realize it.

The difference is, you often get "bad" settings that way, and if you want to change the defaults, you have to have some way of configuring it and the printing system actually remembering the printers and settings instead of re-configuring it on every printing job you do.

My printer is a hp m183fw and discovered automatically, which has .. strange automatic settings (letter instead of A4 even if A4 is the devices default, always grayscale, wants the feeder as default and not the paper holder ...). It's probably the driver cups uses by default which has those settings as default which are bad "for me".

For scanning, gnome shows 3 scanner devices (it has just two scan options, flatbed and sheet feed) with weird names, one does not work (which is about right for not existing). KDE shows them properly.

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I switched to boosteroid lately, since I am still on a 250 euro mini pc until steam machine releases.. if its any good.

Probably its for me being from europe that Boosteroid actually does work better for me, almost flawless where I often had lag issues and disconnects with GFN.

Only had one or two times issues with the client more or less locking up.

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Quoting: JarmerAbsolutely love what S76 is doing with Cosmic. 🥰

Right now, a lot of people say "pick gnome or plasma" when installing distros and I can see a future a few years out where cosmic replaces gnome in that sentence.

I was actually thinking of trying out cosmic again but the github issue where the games aren't capturing the mouse and letting it go to second monitors is a deal breaker. So I'll patiently wait for epoch 2 / 3 / whatever.

I am really still missing some features. As the whole printing / scanning / cups implementation (that said, the gnome implementation is pretty bad too, KDE does a really good job there). Which I do understand why they didn't do yet. Cups being cups, and well.. who prints and scans stuff nowdays?. Except for me, of course.

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I really like the glass look. Looking forward ro it, even when I still need a proper atomic image to use it on top of ublue or bazzite (origami I don't like browsers installed on the system, you are more or less stuck with zen unless you layer).

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Quoting: Cley_FayeIt was unlikely, but I kinda hoped there would be some hardware release date announcements too :D

Me too. For me the steam machine looks like some kind of on-desk box I've been looking for. Depending on the price, I have to get that pitch through my finance minister (my wife).

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That information is the same as used as the age verification on vending machines selling cigarettes. It's a good way to verify age without sending official documents around to some 3rd party entities.

That said, having a young stepson, I found the parental controls pretty okay in steam.

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@Leprotto: The desktop version is said (I can't confirm that since I never used it) to have better performance / stability when it comes to network connectivity/ping/packet loss. Other options as recording and screenshots and the in-game menu are not there as well.

For me and the games I mostly play it's good enough. Especially after my gaming rig died and I'm stuck with a 300 € mini-pc for now until I decide on something different (if I ever get a gaming rig again) :grin:.

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I was using the AppImage for some time since I had issues with the geforcenow-electron when it was deprecated. They fixed that now too (interestingly enough, seems one of the devs of geforcenow-infinity fixed those too).

Glad they have a flatpak now though, so I get automatic updates. Works great for me :-).

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Interesting that so few people have issues with the installer. Maybe it's just the gnome version suffering issues, but I get thrown in there, and it flickers / turns off and on screens all through the installation process (on a nvidia 3070Ti and a amd ryzen mini-pc which I use for game streaming).

Otherwise it's a really cool distribution and actually made me like atomic distributions. Except the download size of 1gb every day.

Though, I really switched to the cosmic main image to make sure I am not running the risk of actually having a too stable system. Didn't work, it's still stable and does not give me many problems.

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I'm using actually the gnome variant. Their installer still has issues on nvidia at least, but once it's running it's really good. It's actually the first immutable system I feel good with.

And I like that they just update in the background and I do not have to take care of the system. Clicking an update button once felt good, now it's just annoying.

I even was surprised how easy it was to set up a go and rust dev environment on a immutable system. So I'm quite content to continue using Bazzite (or something similar) in future.

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