The expansion is 25$ on Battle.net. I'm going to wait until they either give us a way to get the Steam version for cheap if we own the Battle.net version (unlikely to ever happen unfortunately...) or until there's a sale where its cheaper to buy it off Steam than buy the expansion on Battle.net (which probably means years of waiting). I'm glad its finally on Steam, but I don't want to pay for the game twice.

Edit: actually, that would be the third time, I bought the original on release day in the 90s.

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A 57% increase from a low number still results in a low number. I'm all for competition but I have zero interest in EGS and all the drama around it. I'm not creating an account there no matter how many games they give away.

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You should start to use whole years for reference. Monthly noise means nothing, just like in the stock market. For January 2026 Linux usage is up roughly 1.5% on the chart from January 2025. This is a much more meaningful number. You could go a bit farther and be a lot more sensationalist. Actual Linux usage is up what, 80%? In term of net users increase, the jump is much higher, with the number of users almost doubling.

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The 5000 series are AM4 based like your 3700x. A 5700x or 5800x would be a nice upgrade for you, in the ballpark of a 20-30% improvement depending on the task. The non-x3d AM4 5000 series CPUs can still be gotten new cheaply, and really cheap if you buy used. If you don't need 8 cores, a 5600x would also be a nice upgrade.

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My really cheap 9600x bought on sale is doing fine. I'll wait for the next iteration, or the one after that if it still supports am5 to get a x3d chip.

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Quoting: tmtvlI love Arch, I keep bouncing between it and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (I'm on TW at the moment, but I was running Arch for most of 2024 and 2025). I don't think that these 'user-friendly' Arch distros are a good idea. Arch users are really meant to understand our systems and keep up to date with the Arch announcements so we can keep things running. I realise that sounds a bit elitist, so what I mean to say is it's easy to overlook something and break something, therefore a distro which wants to make Arch accessible for users who don't have an interest in reading all the announcements and documentation should set up a testing platform to test updates before delivering them to users and maintain patches to prevent breakage. Taking ownership of AUR packages and integrating them in the distros repositories would also help avoid issues propping up.

That said, I guess these distros are useful for Arch users who can maintain everything in the system and who don't care to manually set up their systems, although it seems to me like it creates a huge burden on the user who then has to figure out everything the distro's set up does. ...oh well, maybe I would be convinced by an Arch distro which sets up SELinux (which is what drew me back to OpenSUSE).

I respectfully disagree. I've been using Linux since '97 and know my way around the system quite well. But I have a full time job, a family, kids, etc. I've installed Arch in the past... been there, done that. I love Endeavour because it gives me the system I want (Arch+XFCE) without all the fuss. 5 minutes install, then add a few packages (vim, Steam, Gimp, sshfs, openrgb (to turn off all those annoying leds on some of my computers), openscad, cura, liquorix kernel and the most important of all, terminus-font which is the best terminal font ever) and its all set up. I bought a used laptop this week, it was all set in 15 minutes. And in the end, its barely any different than what I would have built from the ground with vanilla Arch. Maybe if I had built it from the ground I would have went astray and spent hours getting rid of systemd, but I don't want to spend those hours. And lately systemd has been less of a headache than in the past... anyway, if one day I absolutely need to get rid of systemd, I'd go with Gentoo over Arch.

Anyway, all of this to say that those easy-arch-install-distros are not necessarily targeted to beginners. Experienced users love them too.

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A 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.

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That's excellent! Can't wait to try it tomorrow! I don't expect it to be better than Vintage Story, but I'm sure its still going to be lots of fun.

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Time to switch to an exponential trend line!

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AMD's worst product naming scheme ever. It's almost impossible to know what is what without looking at the specs.

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