Your frustration is funny to a relatively long-time Manjaro user.

Here are a couple tips for you:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Rosetta [External Link]
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks [External Link]

Everything makes sense with pacman/yaourt once you take the time to remember the switches and realize the system behind it.

-S for sync/search/install from repos
  -s for search
  -y for refresh (think --yes or --yank)
  -u for upgrade
  -a for AUR
-Q is for local search (think --query)
-R is for remove

Both of the latter have different switches from -S. Look up the man page.

As you can see on the Rosetta page, you can do almost everything with one tool while you would need 3 or 4 on *buntu.

Oh, and don't read AUR comments, read the code!

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Quoting: LinasThat is a weird selection of countries. Looks like regional pricing issue, except for the fact that Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia are EU countries that pay EU prices for Steam games, and have no special censorship laws like Germany. :huh:

Ex-USSR and.. Luxembourg *shrugs*

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Disregard the w3schools stats since IT crowd is not a representative sampling population. The pornhub number is revealing though

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Not buying any since they cba to release Galaxy.

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I had my comment liked and the thread was replied to (both notifications lead to the same place, essentially)

I followed the reply notification but the like notification still remained unread.

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Just when I was looking for something else to listen to

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Such a shame, I have bought a few titles over the year from them when the price was competitive, mainly to support GOL.

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Correct me if I am wrong but this feels like an end of Steam on Arch/Manjaro? We are constantly plagued by obsolete libs in steam runtime. What happens if we remove them? Will Steam 'fail over' and re-download itself immediately?

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Referencing arch & PKGBUILDs in the changelog, nice :O

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Additional note: The less PPA's people have to add, the more secure they may be. It was an issue raised in our IRC that people flock to all sorts of random PPA's (guilty!), so having a trusted one for this would be awesome.

You know what the smallest natural number is? 0

As in, abolish PPAs... and apt(-get) as well while you are at it and get yourself a proper package manager, i. e. pacman. It's in the name, dogg. Seriously, not only it has the best CLI API I've ever seen but it also goes well with PKGBUILDs (tailored build scripts to create your own packages as easily as by typing `makepkg`).

But they are going the other way, I hear. One paved with opaque automatic binary updates that can roll back automatically if they fail, or NOT. More power to them, then! Or NOT.

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