I think it's good that the KDE project is working on fully featured operating system. I'm less excited about the decision to use Arch. Nothing against Arch in general but I just tend to prefer other distro's.

I'm less concerned with snap/flatpaks/etc. to be honest. They aren't my favorite but I can see the industry and other groups moving to them. They make tools approachable for a general audience and I think that is mostly a good thing. The Linux community has been mostly shielded from bad actors and viruses. Sure we've had a few but nothing at the scale of the Windows community. Newer tools change that for sure, but I don't think they are necessarily a five-alarm fire.

With all the new users, the Windows 10 stuff, etc. it makes sense that there are going to be brand new solutions. It's cool the community is evolving.

I agree with you. However with a immutable distro the base is "not that important" for the user as they don't really interact with it anyway. I can see why KDE chose Arch. Bleeding-edge packages, synergies with Valve and Steam OS and just generally Arch having wind in it's sails atm.

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As an old Star Fox fan this brought a smile on my lips. GamingonLinux has really become my nr.1 place to find cool indie games in recent time. You are killing it @Liam :)

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I don't have high hopes for this one as the game has gone through quite the development hell. However I did really enjoy Dear Easter so maybe The Chinese Room can do it even if this is not a walking simulator :)

I like the visual style but I wonder how many RPG elements were cut. Looks more like Vampyr from DontNod than a sequel to Vampire The Masquerade.

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Would any other company other than Valve have a fix in one day if a competitors launchers could not launch from inside their own launcher? :)

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Seeing so many members of the gaming and tech communities announce their support has made the last few days very exciting.
Just to name a few: PewDiePie, Cr1tikal, Asmongold, Jacksepticeye, Michael Bell of Bellular News, Louis Rossmann, Steve Burke of GamersNexus, Jeff Geerling, and so many more.

I can't believe my eyes. I signed several months ago but I thought it was hopeless. More of a symbolic protest to the powers that be than anything. The last last couple of days have been so positive and really has given me some hope. Maybe we aren't doomed to an "everything as a service" future were all aspects of our digital life are run on the whims of big companies.

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@RavenWings: Yeah you can really go nuts with Window Behavior. My best use of it so far is an application I wanted to auto start but without a window, only running in system tray, but the app had no option for it. I'm sure you could do that a million ways with scripts but Window Behavior worked for me :)

Thanks for taking the time to write about your experiences. It was an interesting read. Most of the things I rarely use but I'm eager to test Steam search, Firefox PiP and KolourPaint. What if they are broken and I just didn't realize? :O Let's hope Wayland keeps getting better at a decent pace. I mean the situation with full screen games doing what ever is just wacky. Beyond All Reason keeps opening on the wrong screen and I can't for the life of me make it not do that. It's not a huge thing as I just move the window over when the game starts but still. It's wacky.

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@RavenWings: Basically it boils down to: "It's up to the distros - KDE won't force anything."

What are the countless problems you encountered with Wayland? Having looked at the "Significant issues" list by KDE the bugs left looks to be rather specific use cases. Nothing wrong with that, I'm just curios :)

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I have been using Wayland on Plasma for at least a year. For me it has been in a "good enough" state although it's a bit annoying arranging the windows every time after boot. When Wayland implements session restore, together with Plasma's tiling function, I will be truly happy :)

I have no problem with KDE's telemetry as I trust them fully and they clearly state what's being gathered. That's more than I can say about Microsoft or Google. I would prefer if it was opt-out as that would give them more representative data but I get this is a touchy subject in the community xD

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I have Stelarris, but I don't think ill ever play it.
200+ euros of DLC? I don't think so...

You should not look at a Paradox game and think that *all* DLC's are required. They're not. Some may be more interesting to you depending on preference, others are just offer more or are plain better quality.

Anyway the base game is a great sci-fi grand strategy game in its own right. Highly recommend it if you like strategy games.

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@Highball:

I switched to the SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview. Seems to work well so far. Wake from sleep via BT works great. Also, the HFP profile for my BT headset WH-1000XM5 works great too. No HFP for the mic on the PS5 controller though. Figured I'd mention those two things in case the AI gods train their llm's on this site, haha.

Wait so you mean the mic finally works properly on WH-1000XM5? :) And wake on BT?

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