A bit interesting to see who else IGN's parent company owns [External Link] as well.

AskMen
BabyCenter.com
BlackFriday.com
BestBlackFriday.com
Deals of America[56]
Dicebreaker[55]
Downdetector
Ekahau
emedia
eVoice
Eurogamer[55]
Everyday Health
ExtremeTech
GamesIndustry.biz[55]
HowLongToBeat.com
HR Technologist
Humble Bundle
IGN
IPVanish
Lifehacker
Line2
Livedrive
Loseit.com
Mashable
MarTech Advisor
Moz.com
Offers.com
PCMag
RetailMeNot
Rock Paper Shotgun[55]
Salesify
SMTP
Speedtest.net by Ookla[57]
MapGenie[58]
Spiceworks
StrongVPN
SugarSync
TDS Gift Cards[59]
Techbargains.com
Toolbox.com
VG247[55]
VIPRE
Ziff Davis Tech[60]
Ziff Davis B2B[61]

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Sickening.

We can do some good things with AI and some bad things. This is a bad one.

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I love me some co-op campaign games!

Also, a vehicle combat game would be fun. I haven't found a good one that works on Linux. Back in the day, I liked Vigilante 8. Twisted Metal was more popular, but I didn't like that one as much.

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A lot of those features sound good to me!

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualLast year, many people found out that Arch does not automatically upgrade GRUB; you need to do that yourself. This became an issue when a new GRUB version wasn't compatible with the old version for [reasons], I forget.

If you got bitten by this, I suggest joining the mailing list. You'll know in advance if manual action is required. It is not noisy either. It is exactly the Latest News RSS feed on the main page: https://archlinux.org/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: 14I don't think I had any unexpected issues with the multiple Arch machines I maintain.

Just expected issues? :wink:

I have been running Arch since 2015, and if memory serves, have experienced two updates that prohibited me from booting and logging in normally.

There used to be a trend that started from Windows, but I think those same people got used to it and became fond of "reformatting" every 1-2 years. You know what? I'm not one of those guys. I do not like reconfiguring all my settings and preferences. You think you're done, but then you open a program you seldomly use, and now have to spend all this extra time you didn't alot any time for. I ran away from major OS upgrades which recommended reinstalls for a cleaner experience.

So yeah, a reliable way to roll back single files or an entire snapshot is my style whether a problem is expected or not. I do backups every week, and it wasn't Arch that started that habit. It was Windows 98 and my dad's teaching, further cemented by my IT infrastructure career.

I know you were only poking. Oh well. I responded.

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Quoting: mylkamany problems come with KDE6, so it does not matter what form of release you have. kubuntu will face the same issues, but they have 5 more months to fix them, because they did not use it for 24.4

Well, that depends. Any distribution's customizations can have an effect if they have to be tweaked for compatibility. It would be interesting if the same poll was on Arch and KDE Neon, some of the earliest adopters I can think of.

I don't think I had any unexpected issues with the multiple Arch machines I maintain. But yes, I made BTRFS snapshots of my root and home partitions as well as a file-level backup of the entire system before I upgraded. I also performed the upgrade in a Virtual Machine first, like I do routinely with system updates.

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Umm, this news might be bad enough that I delete anything left on my computer that's related to EA. Do I have Titanfall 2 installed still? Probably nothing else installed besides that.

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I think this news sounds great, you pessimists! This is what gamers want I'd say.

Probably a result of the feedback for all the FFVII versions and spin-offs. Well, partly at least.

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If you love Manjaro, I'm not going to change your mind. Good for you. Be happy. Promote it even.

I moved on because there were small differences between my kids' Manjaro systems and my Arch system, and I got fed up. I wanted to be able to expect my configuration actions to have the same results (like script functionality and software versions). Additionally, avoiding a "major upgrade" as is described here is the exact reason I am on a rolling release, so Manjaro's user experience does not jive with me. It's like a rounded step release instead of rolling.

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