Quoting: STiATWhat does Manjaro do what Solus does not?

Well, my workplace software (Citrix) works on Manjaro, and Ubuntu as well. I don't know why it doesn't work on Solus. Maybe the Citrix folks didn't build their .tar file well. Who knows, but it doesn't work on Solus for me and others (and yes, we reported it to the Solus folks and Citrix if anyone is wondering). And, relative to this gaming website, I had a few games that run on Manjaro and Ubuntu not run for me on Solus as well. Granted, this was almost a year ago and things might be different now with drivers and Proton, but just FYI. Also, I get your points on the AUR, but I've only found it to be wonderful at tracking down everything I need/want.

Again, I'm pulling for Solus. I only hope the best for the project and backed it for a year, I just don't find anything about the current user experience to be sufficiently differentiated to justify the hype, but I hope they get there.

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Quoting: ageresI'll be waiting for Proton improvement as well. I hope more games which aren't playable with Proton or Wine now will be able to run on Linux

It's pretty amazing as is. As of today, 3400+ games are gold or platinum ranked, and the funny thing is most games I'm using Proton for are bronze or silver ranked, so think of how many of those (probably another 1500 or so) are good too. So probably almost 5000 Windows games are playable right now, in addition to our how many native? 3500 or 4000? That's a LOT of games!!

The list above is great. I'm hugely looking forward to Insurgency: Sandstorm and one that didn't make the list, X4. And I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I'm really, actually looking forward to Serious Sam 4 too. Also not on the list above was a Restaurant Tycoon sort of game (sorry, don't remember the title) that's on my radar too...

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Quoting: johndoe86xI think Solus's differentiation from other rolling release distros is that they have a very "curated" set of software that's supposed to be streamlined with the rest of the system. Meaning if you download something from the software center then it should just work with no dependency conflicts and accept the previous theme settings accordingly. I liked Budgie, but I despise Nautilus.

I think that's *kind of* a point of it. It's perhaps too curated for me. My workplace's software doesn't work on Solus (but works on every other distro) and I had lots of gaming issues on Solus when I was on it. Solus also broke my system with updates 3 times in about 4 months of use, while Manjaro (on testing) has yet to do that once for me.

If people like the Budgie DE (which, actually, I do a lot) I personally prefer the Ubuntu flavor of it (Ubuntu Budgie) with the terrific applets they've designed for it. Manjaro Budgie if you want to use the AUR and the Manjaro apps is excellent as well. That said, I give credit to Solus for starting to focus on Budgie again as they move to version 10.5 and start fixing some problems.

Again, I'm pulling for Solus, but I want them to do something different and I'm just not completely sure how they stand out in the Linux world right now...

Rolling: Arch, Manjaro, Antergos
Curated: Elementary
Newbie friendly: Mint, Deepin, Elementary
Flexible with tremendous options: Ubuntu
Corporate: Fedora

What is Solus doing those don't?

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Quoting: NeverthelessWhy not purchase games cheaper on Epic? It will not defeat Steam, but it can hurt it.

Unless I've missed something, absolutely no one in this coming Store War has claimed Epic offerings will be cheaper for the *consumer*. Increased $ for the devs, yes, but no one has even made any symbolic lip service as to how the consumer benefits here. And usually, with exclusives, that implies higher prices too...

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I'm not too up to date on what Doherty is doing now, but it seems he's doing stuff for Intel again

Yes, as part of the Solus drama recently, it was made clear he's back at Intel, although his role there hasn't been publicly announced from anything I've seen.

I was originally a Solus backer, and I had hoped that Solus Budgie would become a kind of performance oriented Clean Linux for the masses. Without him there, I'm not exactly sure what Solus' mission is at this point or how they'll differentiate themselves from any other rolling system...

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Quoting: Juliusone of the best Distros for gaming due to it's bleeding edge GPU driver support.

Genuinely curious, how is this different from any other rolling distro? When new Nvidia drivers are announced, I'm getting those about a day later on Manjaro testing branch.

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Quoting: TcheyI've missed playing a slow paced FPS, most of them nowadays are for clickers.

And unlike most FPS, ammo management really is important. Depending upon the mode, you don't have much, and you run out fast, meaning every shot has to count...

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Did Coop a bit last night on "Realistic" mode (gulp!). Great fun! Is 1080p its max res?

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Quoting: j_c_p*AI War 2 : yes, the sequel of the great AI War : Fleet command, but with lots of updates and gameplay up to date!

Great list! Is AI War 2 more really fleet command, in the vein of the class Star Wars: Empire at War, or is it more 4X? The videos look like dozens of teeny, tiny units shooting at each other...

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI thing Valve should split in two: One store for big games and another for Indies....
That is what I do for my accounts.

That a tough one. Where do you draw that line?

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