Quoting: scaineI'd LOVE to see an Arch-based distro that give us a store-like experience for updates and software installs. It's frustrating that Arch is so obtuse that even tools like Discover (KDE's appstore) is "not recommended for use with Arch-based distros".

I'm on CachyOS now and it ships with Octopi, but that has multiple problems - the interface is probably worse than Synaptic, a thing I didn't believe possible. It doesn't handle the AUR, and it doesn't know about Flatpak. CachyOS does provide a one-stop "upgrade" tool (open a terminal and type "upgrade", ha!), but no GUI exists.

It's a problem, and one that's hand-waved away by dedicated Arch users who say "just use the terminal". I'm fine doing so, but it means that I wouldn't recommend an Arch distro to anyone, ever. You try Arch, tentatively, after years of Linux exposure, and you might still bounce of it because of this.

So, yeah, so frustrating. Powerful software, like Arch, shouldn't be (this) difficult to use.

Frustrated by the limit of likes I can give to this post.

I love EndeavourOS and use it for some years now. I recommended it for several people over the years because of their frustration with ubuntu or some such and EVERY goddamn time I am confronted with the jokes and concerns about it being Arch-based. Not because of the terminal or some fear of editing configs, but because Arch had developed a reputation of being the most hardcore acne-infested redeyed autism-plus technical extravaganza, that they are afraid to even consider using it in a VM just to see it with their own eyes. Not even THE Arch, mind, but another distro that's based on it.

And every time I have to do this song and dance explaining to them that there's a cult surrounding Arch, of people who made installing it the benchmark for their technical existence and that we should just be nice to them and ignore them otherwise.

And every time, even here, we see comments that even wanting a GUI for something as trivial as package install is somehow a heresy that must bring you great shame and you should be expelled from our brotherhood of no-bloat-arch-installers.

OH, THE PAIN!! I CAN`T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

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Played the demo for 16 hours and was very invested. Played in a slow pace, but I like it that way. The demo covers first two chapters of the game (Prologue and Chapter 1) which are considered tutorial-type handholding experience where you are met with different mechanics and challenges one piece at a time in a more controlled environment. Then you advance to Chapter 2 (not available in the demo), where the proper game sort of starts. You have everything you've built at that point, just no more handholding as far as I understand. It's considered normal for a new game to start at Chapter 2, according to dev.

Having 16 hours of entertainment for free is good, but some people would be shocked at the idea of having a 8 or even 4 hour tutorial. I would say that it was long because I was engaged and interested: I read everything, pondered at things, calculated my moves and not because I was held hostage by the game with it's drip feed of information about WASD controls for 16 hours (as sometimes happens in this day and age)

So, naturally, I would advise anyone to try the demo, where every core game mechanics are covered and then decide about buying. It's a very unusual game, very experimental in the good sense. There's something from AI WAR, Syndicate, 4X games and RPG indeed. One android went on a mission to steal money, while the other went to study cats (of all things), I was busy building water treatment infrastructure and orchestrating a military operation with air support to steal toilet paper from a warehouse. Sounds insane? Yes, frankly, when spelled like that, but it was fun and unusual and engaging. That's extremely rare in my experience.

Play the demo!

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Just in case you want to use it on one of the handheld retro-games gadgets (Anbernic and the like), you might consider using knulli [External Link], which is a fork that targets such devices.

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Having Linux on a mobile phone gives you a lot of advantages compared to Android

I think that there's no one that will argue against it. The real question is - is there a linux phone to be found? And can it run anything except the most rudimentary applications? Librem is overpriced and was marred with allegations of scamming people, Volla makes (AFAIK) good devices and the OS, but it's linux-based, and I'm not sure how open it is. Pinephone (first) is a well-rounded and fairly open device that supports linux, but the specs are low as hell. Pinephone pro has better specs, but inherent bugs that will not be fixed, it seems. Some devices claim linux support, but it means some closed version of the 4.xx kernel or some such, not mainline. postmarketOS and ubuntu touch has reportedly full feature set on like 1-3 android devices from 2018! The software stack may be ready as hell (although I would argue that it's undercooked still), but there's no proper hardware support or availability across the board. And it's cultist territory! The amount of effort to get the device and then integrate it in your own life is a challenge in itself, even if you're good with linux.

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The Pinephone is getting there...

Is it though? I watched closely for the Pine company to deliver for years now and all the energy seemed to dissipate in the last couple of years. They can't even bring themselves to make a monthly newsletter a yearly occurrence. Such a shame.
I own couple of their products and the support for Pinebook Pro is meh at best - sleep functionality is broken still and no news about it being fixed apart from some obscure hacks that ultimately don't work. Same should be true with the second Pinephone, which has the same hardware, basically.
But I'm not here to badmouth and the question is legit - are they doing something, anything really with the Pinephone (the original or the second one)?

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Vesktop (or Vencord - I forgot which is correct now) (Discord wrapper application basically) has working screensharing on wayland. But it doesn't have Push-to-talk because of Wayland not having global shortcuts and Electron being itself.

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Quoting: Slayer5934

Quoting: voxHaven't heard about any problems with akonadi, but heard and suffered enough through baloo`s BS. Many people suggest turning it off, deleting it and like physically scraping it from the hard drive with a rusty knife - just to be sure. So be advised about it. It "works" on my system, but sometimes it doesn't when you need it. Some people say, that it never actually works, despite being very busy all the time.

I have had personal experience with Baloo as well, disabling it is definitely recommended until they fix it (if they haven't already), although I don't even notice any downside to disabling it.

It certainly helps if you need to search files or some text occasionally, especially given it's integration in the system. Blocking it everywhere except couple of folders should fix most of the issues I assume. But then again, this project is a meme already and there will be always doubt about it's ability to do it's job. As I've said before: it works for me [for now, sorta. It appears working... I think].

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Quoting: skaplon

Quoting: legluondunetHow is KDE plasma behavior today? Is it enough stable for a daily use and gaming ? How is it resources consuming ? I prefer light DE and keep resources for gaming.

At least on X11, as long as you disable akonadi, Plasma should be lighter than XFCE and much more so than Gnome. I use it daily for work and gaming, plenty stable. Even if you use NVIDIA and it crashes stuff as is usually does, the workspace should handle it gracefully

Haven't heard about any problems with akonadi, but heard and suffered enough through baloo`s BS. Many people suggest turning it off, deleting it and like physically scraping it from the hard drive with a rusty knife - just to be sure. So be advised about it. It "works" on my system, but sometimes it doesn't when you need it. Some people say, that it never actually works, despite being very busy all the time.

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Quoting: legluondunetHow is KDE plasma behavior today? Is it enough stable for a daily use and gaming ? How is it resources consuming ? I prefer light DE and keep resources for gaming.

No problems at all in the past year, I would say. I even avoided some problems on a latest major release by postponing system updates. Performance was always good, can't complain. It should be noted, however, that I live in a world where nothing else exists, or I prefer to think so. GNOME 3 and 4 is a HERESY. Other DE's don't support Wayland. Tilable desktops are too raw and experimental for me. It's very hard to compare linux experiences, because it's all very different and customized. I have a >10 years old PC if that helps, if you want to gauge performance that way.

Edit: there's a page dedicated to the problems of wayland adoption (just in case) here [External Link].

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Quoting: Deleted_UserIs there a reason why this game is covered here, other than it looks nice? I mean as far as i can see there is no native linux version planned, it is not based on an open sourced engine, etc.
What makes this game special?

Although I buy native first and there should be a good reason for me to buy non-native game usually, I like the broadened coverage here.
There`s a tag for the native games https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/category/Native_Linux and you can filter news by it.

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