Their first FAQ was my question as well:
Can my license key be used on multiple machines? [External Link] Yes!

For $5, I might actually buy this if it's easier to manage on multiple computers and compare results than the Phoronix Test Suite.

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Thanks a lot for this info! I struggled to get online for hours yesterday. It started to feel like a Linux blocking problem after I tried the wife's Mac and got in no problem. Also, my Windows buddy in town with the same ISP didn't have a problem. Really nice to see this posted this morning. :)

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My friends and I use Mumble. The main reason is because TeamSpeak doesn't have audio attenuation for Linux clients. Discord is overkill and a waste of screen space for what I want. If I were to use Discord, I would want E2EE or at least full server control and a mini UI. Plus, I'd really prefer it to be open source. Yeah, I don't picture migrating to Discord anytime soon. The times I've used Discord or Slack were when I was in big guilds that required it. I don't use them anymore since I don't play those games right now.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: 14Emphasis mine:

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: ShmerlWould be nice if they also focus on KDE as the primary supported DE, and will help speeding up its development.

Personally I would rather xfce became their primary and only de but thats because I like the fact its very memory efficent and i have plenty of ram i just dont like bloat code that comes with a vanilla kde base.

In just a handful of posts, you can see why more than one DE needs to be supported. Why would you want fewer options for the masses? I don't understand.

Secondly on your last point no there needs to be fewer options as it does tend to scare off potential windows converts. They go to say manjaro webpage they hit the download button and bam 4 options so imagine you have never used linux before at all and youve been on windows all your life. On one hand you could say oh wow look at the options on the other hand they might well go (and this seems likely as i have worked with a large number of windows users) no i just want an os i dont know what kde is or xfce i just want linux and they are done no second chances.
Why windows works for the majority is there is no choice its windows there is only feature options home prem everybody understands that now if windows started shipping windows aero windows basic windows dx12 windows dx11 then you would see message boards fill with is there just a regular windows i can download. Options are great if you know what they are if you dont its just a confusing mess.

I see your perspective but disagree with your solution. If too many options is the problem for potential Windows converts, then GNU/Linux and even OSS is not for them. I would say point them to a distro that has a more streamlined approach, like Elementary OS or Ubuntu. If that's still too much of a learning curve, get them an Android tablet and tell them it's Linux. (Although, the people you describe sound more like iOS users.)

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Quoting: razing32Curios if they will continue using Arch as a base or fork of it completely and go their own way.

The more and more custom packages they use from their own repo, the less I'll want to run Manjaro on some of my computers. But we'll see.

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Quoting: CybolicI don't really care about which DE they end up keeping as main as I've been running i3 for quite some time and have recently switched to dwm. As long as no DE is a hard dependency, I'm fine with it.
What I'd like to see them focus on is compatibility and stability as the last couple of times I've tried Manjaro, it has either failed to install or locked up on boot. I'm sure it's related to my MSI motherboard not playing nice, so not directly their fault, but plain arch and Antergos (R.I.P.) never failed on me.

I have Manjaro w/ Gnome running on two desktops and didn't have any installation problems, but I couldn't get it installed on a third desktop. I eventually used the "architect" ISO and was able to get through an installation still using Gnome as the DE. *shrug*

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Emphasis mine:

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: ShmerlWould be nice if they also focus on KDE as the primary supported DE, and will help speeding up its development.

Personally I would rather xfce became their primary and only de but thats because I like the fact its very memory efficent and i have plenty of ram i just dont like bloat code that comes with a vanilla kde base.

In just a handful of posts, you can see why more than one DE needs to be supported. Why would you want fewer options for the masses? I don't understand.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: 14My gut reaction to Micro Trailers: they will continue the shrinking of attention spans of entertainment consumers.

While true, Valve are just like any other company, they need to go with what's going to help them pull in the sales so it does make sense.

I wasn't trying to blame Valve exclusively. It's a cultural + social observation. Must be an age thing.

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Oh man! This is super welcome. If it doesn't get packaged for Arch, I might install another DE on my laptop. :D

Actually looking at the AUR before submitting this post, I see that there are a couple of other efforts to do the same thing. Maybe I'll tinker with those as well.

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Quoting: TheRiddick

Quoting: 14You have to be subscribed before they're released.

It has a timer on the bundle page, which is at 27days or so, plenty of time.

I don't think you get September's games if you subscribe now.

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