If I didn't want a rolling release, it would be a hard choice between Pop and Mint.

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Quite exciting.

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Quoting: aufkrawallBig fan of RNNoise in Mumble, works much better than Nvidia's crazy proprietary bloat that slows down your GPU.

Yes. That, and I like the attenuation. When people are talking, the other sound sources (games) go down in volume by 50%.

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Quoting: robvvApparently Microsoft’s shares fell by 1% after the announcement!

I think coincidental, right? Big tech shares declined over the last week in general.

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I don't appreciate the way Microsoft handles Minecraft accounts -- super annoying when you have multiple and they keep logging out; parental controls sound good but have to be disabled just to join your own LAN server -- and breaking Halo co-op when it used to work.

The other part is their sheer size. They own GitHub! LinkedIn! Many game studios and many other technologies.

I've really looked forward to AAA games for most of my gaming life, but I'm finally starting to shift like others here. Games I've spent a ton of time lately: Deep Rock Galactic, SnowRunner, Ready or Not. I have been sinking time into them and they are made by smaller companies.

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Quoting: BielFPsDoes users need to do something to enable Futex2 benefits, besides installing Kernel >=5.16 and the latest version of proton?

You have manjaro. You alredy have it on your computer :-)

I don't think you can take that for granted with the way Manjaro handles kernel installations. That, and not everyone runs updates daily.

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Looking fantastic.

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Really great news.

As far as the game itself goes, I stopped playing it a month or more ago (came with PS Plus). I'd say it was pretty much a good game, and I am sure a lot of people will love it, but I wasn't into it. The game is half walking around, looking at scenery, and listening to annoying dialogue. The back-and-forth of the main dude and his son is filled will long silences and single-word answers. It is just annoying to be a witness. And that's what I felt like more than anything: someone tagging along and watching (as opposed to playing). While the scenery is incredible at times, there wasn't enough actual action and gameplay for me. I also couldn't get past the idea of who he used to be based on older games in the series, and now dealing with this character who does not make you feel cool to be at all. I put it down deciding that if I wanted a story, I wanted a different one -- an actual RPG or, really, a good book. God of War didn't have enough game for me.

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Quoting: STiATWe'll see where this leads, but I do not have another disro providing an experience even close to Solus, so I'll stick with it (and I used Arch 2004-2017, tried it over the holidays again and it's just a mess).

I do not want to manually search for depends when things don't work I do not want to fiddle around, I want a system/Desktop that just works.

Sounds like the AUR is not for you. But I'm curious: why did you try Arch again over the holidays? And what's a mess anyways, the fact that you have to make more decisions as to what to install?

The mess is that it does not come with sane defaults, as with dependencies.

For me, if an application requires dependencies to make functionalities work which otherwhise simply throw errors and nobody knows why - that's a bad decision not to have it as a dependency. Even if it does not require it at compile time. Arch disagrees on that opinion.

It's not about decisions to make, it's about if you install a package it will actually work properly or not. And in that regard, Arch is a hot mess.

An example would be: KDE, Dolphin requires kio-extras to be able to get android phones working. But wait, installing kio-extras it does not. Since you require an optional mtp lib. That done, on some devices, it will still not work. You need some udev rules package.

Otherwhise Dolphin will give some cryptic error. That's not exactly what I expect, if I install the kde meta package, that stuff should be included. Ye, there may be udev rules I do not need. But that's the point, Arch has the minimalistic approach making it basically a bad experience even if you use meta packages. Though, I think kio-extras by now made it into the meta depends.

Well, I can understand disliking that situation. But I like the choice of bypassing packages I don't need, so I'm glad Arch exists and is like that. For example, I don't need the Android support you do. Even Manjaro makes too many choices I don't want and have to undo. There are plenty of distros to choose from! Might be a hot mess based on your desires, but there must be plenty of people who see it differently.

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Thanks for the great info in the article.

What I take out of this is simple: Games released in a year or two will have much better Linux support in EAC.

I work for a company with many software developers and I see all the time how many components get upgraded when they already work right now -- close to never. It only happens when there is a security risk. The business pressure directs devs to add features and fix bugs. Changing EAC SDK would be seen as a risk and could cause a bad experience for the 97% of players that don't need the Linux-compatible version.

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