Quoting: omer666That's exactly what I liked about Arch, but after so many years running it, life has become more cluttered and I didn't have time to troubleshoot it any longer.

That exactly. This was the reason for me too not choosing Arch this time but Manjaro when I moved away from *Ubuntu back to my beloved arch-like system.

You have a well tested system, are still quite bleeding edge, and if you hit the shit pile anyawy, there is Arch Wiki (which is a GREAT source of information) and forums, you'll find a lot of great solutions there.

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Quoting: knotted10I'd so delighted on trying Manjaro (XFCE) I think that is the most balanced distro over there. But for me, there's only an issue, I owe a gaming laptop which is not able to boot into manjaro's usb live media. I had to throw everything and go back to mint and screentearing (optimus sucks)

Ye, optimus sucks, and Manjaro currently has a few issues with mhwd as well regarding to Optimus, seems there are no devs with optimus hardware to do the proper testing. For me it worked choosing the non-free option, which even enables the nvidia driver during the boot time.

I'd suggest you try it again once Manjaro 17 is released. They finally are switching to Kernel 4.9 LTS for their install images, which solves a lot of issues booting the install image on several NVidia hardware compared to the released ISO with 4.4 for a variety of NVidia users.

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Welcome to the Arch Universe, so to say.

I'm quite some time on Manjaro now, and I love it so far. Never looked back, though, I've been eyeballing with Antergos as well, but I prefer the way Manjaro updates their stable, every few weeks a fully tested update with their main desktops (KDE, XFCE), only dropping security patches if necessary between those updates every few weeks (as lately the flash update).

Antergos for me does not even boot in the live ISO, not on my laptop, not on my PC and not in Virtualbox. This quite killed every testing scenario I could have had (just even tested with the current ISO), which back the days killed it as an option when I was choosing a new system. And still would :D.

And ye, others are right, make sure you know what you install from AUR. Check the comments, and check scripts and download source. I've had arch since back in 2003 (with a bit of a break using KUbuntu), and never came across a malicious package - but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen.

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Quoting: Zlopez...
but I didn't make it work with proprietary Nvidia driver.

You can't in the current state. NVidias Wayland support ist based upon EGLStreams, while window manager developers don't want to implement it. As long as NVidia and the Window Manager developers can't agree on a technical standard, we won't see any wayland support in what-so-ever desktop/window manager.

And that's a statement of Gnome and KDE devs. No idea about Unity / Mir / Ubuntu crap has plans to implement EGLStreams though.

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Nope. Most things are not capable of using multiple GPUs at all, so why bother buying a 2nd :D.

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Your screenshot isn't doing it much good. Actually looks a lot neater in the videos on Steam.

Will keep an eye on that one. I like building sims and this seems quite different to the ones I've played so far.

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Yea, don't forget about all those little devils out there.

Fixing bugs is always good, no issue if there is a native build or not, wine squashed are fewer bugs to hit us in other games.

Though, not me. I try to avoid wine where ever possible.

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Hmh, lacking a bit of docs... reading a bit of the sourcecode (for me) does not really tell me how to "properly" use the API.

@Shmerl hmh.. Rust... have dabbled a bit in it, liked it so far. Seems to get more and more popular out there...

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Portal 2 isn't working and valve is asking which games don't work? That one they should at least know about :D...

If they really get the major issues fixed, I may soon have to get a AMD card (I'd love to).

Quoting: ziabiceI have a long list of non working games, but please don't ask me to register to the wiki too!

=> send it to liam or post it here..

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1 Hour. Just started it so it counts as Linux purchase.
Still have too many games on the list to play, didn't get around yet to play XCOM2.

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