Quoting: EssojeI'd love to appreciate these small victories for Linux, but together with the RAM crisis and the news lately, all I can see here is the gruesome death of consumer PC hardware. It's like partying on top of a sinking ship.
This will likely force people who want to play games to be part of a closed garden like game consoles, or to pay for remote applications/machines. It really feels like we are going back to the remote terminal days, as ironic as that is.

I'm most likely wrong, but if I dare to speculate (and dream), maybe the RAM crisis will persuade people to stick with their current, aging PCs and what better for an aging PC than Linux?... Some people won't be able to afford a new PC to install Windows 11 so they'll try Linux.

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Not that my opinion matters much, but at least speaking for myself and my kids... I will never, under any circumstance, will ever buy/pay for a Nintendo console/device or Nintendo game... They deserve to go bankrupt... not that's ever going to happen, but I'm a huge advocate of "vote with your wallet".

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One alternative to Discort that I find interesting (although I haven't used yet) is Revolt ( https://app.revolt.chat [External Link] )... It seems like a good alternative with fairly active development, but I haven't seen anyone I know using it so far.

The developers are rewriting the whole thing and it seems like they're making good progress, check the latest version highlights in Github: https://github.com/revoltchat/frontend/releases [External Link]

I also heard some sort of controversial things about their developers, but no proof or evidence of it (https://alternativeto.net/software/revolt-chat/about/#post-146274)...

I'd like to know people's opinions here.

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I still have an RX 470 running because to me at least it seems there has been little improvements in the bracket below 150 W. I don't need high performance, I want better efficiency. And every generation I hope there will be something worth upgrading to.

What I did in 2023 was to buy the cheapest Radeon RX 7600 (XFX Speedster SWFT210 Radeon RX 7600) which at that time was like 300 USD... Originally it's like 220W power consumption, but I underclocked it (with the awesome corectrl utility) and now is just like 10-15% slower (which still is 3 times faster than my previous Nvidia 1060 3GB) and is just ~75W of power consumption, temperatures never exceed ~60°C and I don't plant to update my card until the end of 2026, when I plan to buy a good AMD card and underclock it to lower temps and wattage again.

P.S.: I did the same with my CPU, a beefy AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. It's originally ~170W and I have it in my BIOS set to "ECO Mode" at ~65W, is like 10-15% slower, but it's a third of the power consumption.

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I know the Manjaro team has made some questionable decisions but I don't see them as deal breakers (at least so far). I'm still using Manjaro, I absolutely love it and it's been over 6 years already. Is thanks to Manjaro that I stuck with Linux when I switched from Windows 10 years ago. Before, I hopped through Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu again, Sparky Linux, Fedora and finally Manjaro ♥️.

The stability of the system after updates has improved a ton. Several years ago it was expected that from time to time (every 3 months or so) the system could break after an update and you had to spend a couple hours digging through forums on how to fix things. I never had to reinstall the system, though; so nothing too serious. These days is at most, once every couple of years, so we're talking about a massive improvement in stability after updates, which was for me the most annoying thing about a rolling-release distro.

Anyway. I hope Manjaro sticks around and regain some popularity (and make better decisions in the future to avoid too much drama/backslash). I really love it and I would only consider abandon it for Endeavour, but so far, I'm pretty happy with Manjaro.

P.S.: Old topic, but I just wanted to give my honest opinion.

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I'm actually happy Stadia is dead... The whole concept of streaming games is inherently discriminatory to the majority of the world, which doesn't have good Internet connection. At least 2 entire continents are out of this business because of this.

Also, the idea of paying for a videogame that after some time is not going to be available... nope, not for me. That's another reason why I don't like Netflix and all these streaming services. I want to HAVE what I pay for, locally.

Hopefully, the business of truly owning what you pay for is coming back in the future.

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Hah, last night I was recomending a friend new to Linux to install the Heroic Games to be able to play Epic Store stuff and she coudln't log in... It turns out this was the problem. Funny mix of bad and good luck I guess, haha.

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I was hesitant to comment here saying that I'm not a fan of the art style, but reading the other comments, I see that it actually is a realatively common opinion. I mean, I'll definitely play it and I'm sure is going to be a good game, but yeah, the art style (and animation) is definitely not... popular.

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I started with Linux back in 2014, with Ubuntu (of course, that's what we all look for when we are young), switched from Ubuntu to Lubuntu a few times for about 2 years in an attemp to spice things up, but at the end, it didn't feel right... and then, very hesitantly, I tried Manjaro... And we've been happily together since then!... Yes, we've had some silly arguments and a couple full blown fights, but we've always have managed to solve things and I can confidently say that I can see us together for the rest of our lives.

I think the secret is to know what to expect, you gotta work with them, it's a team. Yes, you can try new things (Pipewire), but don't blame it on your distro if that new thing doesn't work... I haven't tried it because I want to wait until it's much more stable. My distro is more important than a Pipewire adventure!

In the meantime, I just cook something nice, put on my comfy clothes, relaxing music and enjoy my time with my beloved Manjaro, :)

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Oh... another couple of things to address other comments...

We can all agree that NFTs in today's incarnation are pretty useless...

But the idea is pretty good, the concept. It just need to evolve and mature for 5 - 10 more years.

Other people are mixing NFTs with the "play to earn" model of the new scammy games that are coming out... NFTs and cryptocurrencies are just the tool they are using to facilitate their activities... But there can be a "play to earn" game that uses NFTs and is not scammy... there are other "play to earn" models that don't rely on a quasi-ponzi schemes, is just a matter of time for those games to appear and hopefully the mainstream opinion will start to shift to a more positive view... It'll take time, though.

Now, for those who saw the other video and say cryptos and blockchain technology is garbage... do yourself a favor and watch this video to have "the other point of view":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1si5ZWLgy0 [External Link]

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