RISC-V Steam Deck with much better battery lifetime when? 😁

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Flatpak at 3rd place! The Linux Desktop is slowly healing!

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I played countless hours GTA Online and never single player ... according to the Rockstar Launcher over 200h ... all wasted by introducing EAC BattlEye and blocking legit players ...

Also I wonder does the old online account migrate to the new enhanced edition? Assuming it will at some point start working again on Linux ofc. Furthermore as an owner of the "classic" one is there a way to get the enhanced update without re-buying the game!?

Is it just me or was the enhanced edition once rated playable? I am like 90% certain I saw a playable rating earlier and was asking myself did they enabled EAC BattlEye for Linux only for the enhanced edition but not for the classic one? Or is my mind playing tricks on me?

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Is there something you're waiting on being added or fixed in the NVIDIA driver on Linux?

Yes weird syncing issues they have since explicit sync. I mean how do they manage than older games like Warhammer 40K Dawn of War have struggle to maintain a steady 60fps and in turn jump between 40 and 50 with frames times all over the board. But other titles, much more recent and demanding titles, are steady with no issues?

With older drivers those old games didn’t had any issues. They started to have these since they added explicit sync ...

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I'd might be alone with this perception. But I never found that Half-Life 2 looked particularly good. Not even back then. More like they just made photos of real-world object, smashed it on some polygons in the hopes it will look realistic. While in turn it was very flat and boring to me.

I mean I played HL2, Lost Coast, Ep One and Ep Two and I enjoyed them. But not because they looked ... good or stylish or it had a special art direction.

Imho the RTX version looks way better. Even though I will never be bale to play it on my hardware. I find the original is often times way too dark and uncanny.

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Maybe this will mean Valve will finally improve the controller interaction with their steam store. Because there is nothing more unsatisfying than using the Steam Community, Workshop or Store on Deck.

Either the action bar at the bottom starts to flash rapidly, the controller is jumping towards items not visible on screen or randomly selecting things in the background which are blurred out like the power menu, or a controller input get repeated for a few seconds without the user pressing anything (especially after waking the Deck from sleep) and so many little annoying issues.

They definitely need a proper native Steam Deck UI for the store and not just the website forced into the big picture mode ...

As of now Valve does not need to improve anything because the competition is even worse on hand-held, UI wise.

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I know this will get me in trouble but I feel like no Arch Linux spin is ready to be shipped to the masses.
Even the kinda point release Arch Linux SteamOS 3 is flunky at times.
Then considering these devices are handed to the "not so tech savvy" folks.

Does Manjaro still do manual testing? Or did they finally moved to use something like OpenQA for their package integrity and bug testing?

If it comes to rolling release or semi-rolling Release openSUSE Tumbleweed, Aeon, Kalpa and Fedora and Silverblue are unrivaled in stability and reliability.
While openSUSE has a better shot at avg. Desktops users as there is simply never the need for a release update as it is common for Fedora and Manjaro. So the user just keeps on rollin while Aeon and Kalpa are fully automated and wouldn't even messup a Nvidia driver update.

Couldn't they have teamed up with openSUSE or Fedora? Those guys already know how to get immutable desktops right. :/

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I have mixed feelings about this. Considering there are only two perceptions of Manjaro: Great as f*ck and Broken as f*ck it will be interesting to see how it will turn out.

Also I feel like SteamOS is already a bit flunky from time to time I see a lot of potential of things to go wrong.

Don't get me wrong, SteamOS is perfectly fine for what it is intended to be used for as a handheld, but there are quite a few nuances and things randomly being annoying.

Like it sometimes does a full restet when going from Desktop back to gaming mode. You hear the sound of the boot video, then it stops and it starts to verify the installation.

Or Steam Link and the Steam Client crashing gamescope at least once when connecting for remote play.

Randomly not picking up external displays unless you do a full shutdown.

With some HDMI to Display port cables it's usable to read the EDIF of some devices.

And so many more little things randomly bugging out.

Considering it's done by Valve and they have all this little issues while they usually do exceptionally well software (unless you run Steam on Wayland + nvidia). What might Manjaro pull off with.

Does Manjaro have the man power to maintain such a system software wise?

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