Quoting: JarmerAbsolutely love what S76 is doing with Cosmic. 🥰

Right now, a lot of people say "pick gnome or plasma" when installing distros and I can see a future a few years out where cosmic replaces gnome in that sentence.

I was actually thinking of trying out cosmic again but the github issue where the games aren't capturing the mouse and letting it go to second monitors is a deal breaker. So I'll patiently wait for epoch 2 / 3 / whatever.

I don't think it'll replace Gnome in the recommendations, but just be additive.

As you point out, Cosmic isn't fully fleshed out yet and doesn't meet the needs to many at the moment. In addition to the printing issue brought up, it's gesture implementation is fairly minimal. It looks like Epoch 3 will address gestures and their modification (unless someone programs an add-on in the interim). For someone like me needing to use a lot of windows and apps simultaneously on a laptop during my workday, Gnome and its essential gestures extensions will be a must for me for the foreseeable future....

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Quoting: STiATCups being cups, and well.. who prints and scans stuff nowdays?. Except for me, of course.

In saying that, if you really want local software, Brother provided their own software suite with step-by-step instructions to install, and their after-sales support for Linux puts everyone else to shame (my MFC is ~ years old and they still give me prompt support under Linux).

I second the strong Brother printer recommendations for Linux.

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Quoting: Jarmerthe wayland future is really coming along nicely. Cinnamon is getting there, xfce will be there soon, cosmic/gome/kde are already there. Yes!

FWIW, Budgie as well...

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Quoting: DrakkerA new release is usually slight tweaks to the package selection that's installed by default. They also update the Welcome app and other small things. But yeah, Endeavour is just a quick installer for Arch. In 5 minutes you have an up and running Arch system with a decent selection of pre-installed packages and a desktop manager of your choice from a short list they offer.

Huge Endeavour fan here. Every device in our household for every family member has it installed (minus one daughter's high school who, for her arts and design classes, mandates an Apple laptop... Grrrrr....).

For those thinking of using it, it's a bit more than just an installer. There are some ideological tweaks that make it into the install. For example, packages to allow the DE's to auto index files for search is off by default (in at least KDE and Gnome) and the same for linking the DE up to Google services should you want to do that (which my wife wanted in her case, which is how I found out some more packages were needed). Other distros have these on by default or installed at baseline. That's the biggest difference I've found.

Just a PSA.

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Curious to learn how it compares to Beyond All Reason (BAR) which already does large scale battles and innovates the RTS genre.

I occasionally play BAR and it seems quite good to me, but it seems like RTS aficionados really have stamped BAR the GOAT for the genre. Apparently for players really, really into RTS's it's a dream title and we're in the golden age.

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Wow, thanks for this notification! I wanted to try and get into that series at some point and this now is the perfect opportunity. Purchased. Much appreciated!

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Has anyone actually gotten this to work with offline bots as yet?

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Yeah, the gaming industry long ago drove home to me to never, ever buy a title that depends upon a centralized server for its viability. Ballistic Overkill (a great FPS title on Linux in the late 20-teens) was the last straw.

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All these years later and still perhaps the most impactful website in the entire Linux ecosystem. Congrats!

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Can't wait to try this.

Also remember there is a Tie Fighter (arguably the better game) Total Conversion (approaching 100K downloads, and with a 9.8 score) as well which I believe can also be made to run on Linux: https://www.moddb.com/mods/tie-fighter-total-conversion-tftc [External Link]

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Is this a "Last Starfighter" type of situation where the top scoring players get TSA job offers?

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