Dunno about a lot of the rest, but Tactical Breach Wizards is practically worth £35 on its own merit. Throw in CoreKeeper, Ixion and the Warhammer title and this is a steal!

I need to get back to Dungeons of Hinterberg too. Fantastic style to it, but I got distracted by something else and never went back to it!

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Quoting: MichelN86Arch or arch based is not meant for you. It’s not hard to use the terminal at all or do a package search online.

Also the article is about endeavour os, not about your problems about a store or cachy os.

Yeah, I should have said, I actually got into Arch because of Endeavour. It's a great O/S. I mentioned CachyOS here because it attempts to fix the issue of non-GUI software-centres by including Octopi, which isn't ditro-specific, but is pretty limited in what it can do address this lack.

Why do you say arch-based isn't for me? I've spent several years on Arch. But I'll ram home my point again, cos it looks like you missed it - powerful tools don't have to be obtuse and no-one befits from elitist attitudes that would prevent unlocking those powerful tools.

So it would be super-cool if someone took the idea of paman and actually presented the power of Arch in an approachable non-distro-specific way.

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I'd LOVE to see an Arch-based distro that give us a store-like experience for updates and software installs. It's frustrating that Arch is so obtuse that even tools like Discover (KDE's appstore) is "not recommended for use with Arch-based distros".

I'm on CachyOS now and it ships with Octopi, but that has multiple problems - the interface is probably worse than Synaptic, a thing I didn't believe possible. It doesn't handle the AUR, and it doesn't know about Flatpak. CachyOS does provide a one-stop "upgrade" tool (open a terminal and type "upgrade", ha!), but no GUI exists.

It's a problem, and one that's hand-waved away by dedicated Arch users who say "just use the terminal". I'm fine doing so, but it means that I wouldn't recommend an Arch distro to anyone, ever. You try Arch, tentatively, after years of Linux exposure, and you might still bounce of it because of this.

So, yeah, so frustrating. Powerful software, like Arch, shouldn't be (this) difficult to use.

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Quoting: EikeWorks For Me(TM) on KDE 6 on Debian stable, and worked on KDE 5 on Bookworm already. I'm using Nvidia BTW.

Yeah, it's frustrating. For a long time I thought it was a cable issue, but then Plasma 6 dropped for Siduction, and suddenly I was on a wayland session and boom - everything unlocked, like magic. I'm on an AMD 7900XTX, so for a while I thought it was a limitation with HDMI (AMD haven't licensed HDMI 2.1 for the mesa driver), but I've researched it, and 2.0 is more than capable, as is the DisplayPort cable I tried too. It's a top-end monitor I'm using too, so doubly frustrating!

But great to see it all "exposed" under wayland, so no going back for me now. Being able to control the brightness of my screen using the Plasma widget is amazing too - until now I had to manually control brightness using the monitor's shitty remote control! So much more convenient this way!

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Quoting: scaineBut I wouldn't go back to X11 because a) no 120Hz support

Wayland definitely is the way to go, but what do you mean no 120Hz? I'm running an Xfce (X11) desktop at 120Hz right now, on AMD hardware similar to yours. Is that some weird KDE limitation on X11?

In any case, there are real (and compelling) reasons to migrate to Wayland, like HDR. No need to come up with imaginary ones.

Under X11, I only get the option for 60Hz. This is across three distros (Pop_OS, Endeavour and Siduction), so it must be a hardware limitation of some kind.

Launching a Wayland session immediately unlocks 120Hz, along with HDR, colour profiles, brightness settings, etc.

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Quoting: Technopeasant@scaine
Why is code generation trivial while "art, music and voice acting" is inherantly important?

Sorry, I wasn't clear. It's just as important. I just don't think that anyone other than the FSF would have the motivation to bring a case against the AI companies for code. It's also, as Kimyrielle points out, really hard to prove that AI was used in any given sample of code. It should still be disclosed, imo. It's still burning the planet and (probably) affecting jobs due to short-sighted, or over-optmistic managers.

Quoting: KimyrielleThing is that these tools DO make you more productive, if you're using them right (which is why they're getting adopted by coders).

As I said, this is currently not the case. I'm sure there will be further studies on this, but right now, this study from July this year points to the opposite. While you think AI will make you more productive, in fact you are less so. It's a really interesting read.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ [External Link]

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@Kimyrielle
Uh, that's not a great take, tbh. "It's gonna happen, so just accept it"? Nah.

Maybe you're right about the coding element. Despite evidence that using AI tools for development actually slows you down, that's only true for experienced developers. A lot of indie studios are probably using genAI tools built into their integrated development environments (IDE) and you're right, that ship has probably sailed. After all, who's going to champion all the GPL licenses they stomped on to train that model?

However, art, music and voice acting are a whole 'nother story. These AI assets are very much not only built on non-attributed, probably copyrighted work, but when they're used in a game, they're also actively putting artists, musicians and voice actors out of work.

I'm not having that. So these disclosures are extremely important (to me).

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Quoting: Donbot5000who's own software in the article REQUIRES visual studio is now getting highlighted here on GamingOnLinux ? What a Croc.

The requirements are disappointing, but the nature of it being open source does allow for the possibility that someone takes the core of it and rewrites it without that requirement. Long shot, but hey ho.

As for it being reported here, I'm thankful. If not for GOL, I wouldn't hear about this stuff, and wouldn't benefit from the comments/community here.

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Quoting: etoven"Allot of users won't notice the difference."
No just the apox half of them now suffering a broken deskto.

He's not making stuff up, you know. They're using actual stats to back up their claims. Perhaps you declined to provide telemetry in the "User Feedback" Settings page, or maybe you haven't filed any bug reports?

You haven't said how you're affected badly by this though. Can you elaborate? Is your issue on the Significant Issues tracker?

Quoting: etovensomething starting to feel shady about KDE love affair with this broken pos compositor if you ask me.

It's been clear for several years now that Wayland is the future of the Linux graphics stack. What are you suggesting they do instead? Other than "stay on X11 and accept the development issues (for the KDE Plasma team) that entails".

I do miss having my windows remember their positions, although it's being worked on. But I wouldn't go back to X11 because a) no 120Hz support, b) no HDR and c) no brightness controls for external monitors. It's just too good now (for me, at least), despite its other issues.

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Playing opening scenes such as movies/cut-scenes/intros before being given the option to change settings is infuriating. And no, this doesn't mean I want launchers! Just give us an opening screen offering those options: graphics settings and audio settings, but also subtitles.

Good grief, subtitles. I've lost count of how many opening scenes I've had ruined by having subtitles on. Talk about an immersion breaker. I suppose that's less sinful than not having them and needing them... but just give us the option!!

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