After 12 years with Ubuntu, I became fed up with the need to compile apps which had been removed from the Ubuntu repos, in particular Aqualung, my must-have music player, which disappeared with 14.04.

I found that Aqualung, and other apps on which I had come to depend, were in the AUR.

I tried Manjaro. What an experience! As easy to install as Ubuntu, as user-friendly, as well-stocked with apps as Ubuntu, and a community which is as friendly as the Ubuntu forums. Using the not-that-scary AUR is a matter of selecting the package, clicking "Build," then "Apply" and watch the system download all the dependencies (!) and the source code, and autocompiles the code itself. And, practically every program ever written for Linux can be found there. Moving to an Arch-based system has been like falling in love with Linux all over again.

And Manjaro is noted for its hardware compatibility, too.

Just watch it when you're on the Arch forums, which have a reputation for being pretty touchy. There are people who show total disdain for not spending hours installing the most minimal installation possible. And there are reasons why people regard the Arch forums as The Most Likely Forum on which to get a "RTFM, or GTFO!"

Some few Steam games have required some tweaking, but the ones which have can be tweaked into playability.

I will also say that Manjaro has become the new Ubuntu.

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EndeavourOS, a spiritual successor to the much-missed Antergos, is out now. It uses the Calamares installer, and you end up with a pure vanilla Arch installation.

In well less than 30 minutes. Suddenly anyone can install the basic Arch system without spending a long time reading the Arch wiki, and dealing with certain "RTFM, dammit" Arch Forum users.

I did read one Arch user complaining about installing Manjaro, and taking "hours and hours" to remove the apps he didn't want. Instead, he'll spend a significantly larger amount of time, using the AUR especially, to install the apps he does want. Arch users can be a snotty bunch.

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I CANNOT run this game

./Chronicon

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* YoYo Games Linux Runner V1.3 *
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CommandLine: -game game.unx
ExeName= /home/oldrocker99/.steam/steamapps/common/Chronicon/Chronicon
MemoryManager allocated: 44291
INI DisplayName=Chronicon
SavePrePend /home/oldrocker99/.config/Chronicon/
GAMEPAD: Initialising Ubuntu support
Attempting to set gamepadcount to 32
steamfile:/home/oldrocker99/.steam/steamapps/common/Chronicon/steam_appid.txt
Steam being initialised with appId 375480
Steam_Init
Error: Failed to load libsteam_api.so: libsteam_api.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Failed LoadSteamLib() call: Error loading libsteam_api.so
SteamInit failed: Error loading libsteam_api.so
Steam restarting via client
Attempting to set gamepadcount to 0
Not shutting down steam as it is not initialised
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

The library is in the /usr/lib folder i9n the game directory. There was an update today, which did not run.

I've tried it on Manjaro as well as Ubuntu. No luck.

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I've been playing NWN since 2002, first on WinXP, then the only purchasable game I had which ran on Linux, since 2008, with its still-working Linux client.

I was only too happy to purchase another copy of the game I probably have played more hours than any other game (the Dominions series is the only other contender) from Beamdog, and their devotion to the game and to their customers puts them at the tippy-top of my list of favorite game developers.:wub:

I've never even played MP, and there are lots of current PW servers.

I have always called NWN "The Most Game You Can Get In A Box," and the hundreds of free high-quality adventures and mods have kept this game alive.:woot:

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Nothing at all to interest me; I do not play twitch games, because I totally suck at them.

The same reason I don't have a console, nor use a controller.

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I :whistle: have 1538 games, 90% Linux games. :wink:

This is 7 years of Steam use, and almost all on sale, so I don't mean to put anyone down for having fewer!

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Pretty easy to install, too. Thanks, Liam, for the tip!:D

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Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: mahThis project really legal?
I seems, they can't clear copyright problems.

They didn't say in their announcement, but I can't imagine that it's technically legal, at least I can't remotely begin to imagine the manpower and time needed to track down and contact hundreds of copyright holders to get the necessary permission. And even if it's abadonware, you still cannot make it available in such way without permission. Copyright law is really clear about that you cannot do ANYHING with a protected work, unless with explicit permission or when the law explicitly allows it.

OTOH, I can't see anybody suing them over it, either. These games have no commercial value anymore.

There are a couple of Elder Scrolls games in there (I saw Daggerfall and Redguard at least), and I dunno if Bethesda are the sort to just look the other way even if they're not still selling the games.

Bethesda, several years ago, made Arena and Daggerfall free to download and play. I assume, but am not sure, that Redguard is, also.

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I had it when it was Retro-Pixel Castles, and it's been slowly improving, to the colossus it is now.

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F'tagn.

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