Nope, no breaks so far. It did happen previously, when I was originally on Endeavour a couple of years back. Then I switched to Siduction for a couple of years. Just recently back on Arch, this time via CachyOS and it's been a great experience.

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Quoting: Curupira

a significantly reworked installer, which also now includes bootloader selection

I can vouch that CachyOS installer included a bootloader selection screen since I've first tried it (more than a year ago). Maybe even earlier. :)

I'm not too clued up on it, but it seems it was done differently before. Direct from their blog post "bootloader selection has been moved directly into the installer".

Yeah, it's weird. When I fist installed this, about 8 months back, it asks if you want Grub, SystemD-boot or a couple of others. So it's technically been there for a while. I wonder how it's changed that warrants that update message?

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Legal gears slowly grinding, huh? Two years to get to the point of "yeah, let's review this".

I wish this was a case against Amazon for Kindle Unlimited, instead of Valve for Steam game pricing, but there we go.

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Wow, it's consistently had 800-1500 players every month for it's (considerable) shelf life!

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I suppose the performance thing is cool, but the bit of CachyOS I love is that it integrates snapper into grub seamlessly, so if you break your system (say, an aberrant Arch update), you just reboot into an earlier snapshot and you've learned your lesson. Takes all the pressure off the fact it's Arch. Or being an idiot like me and constantly experimenting with stuff and breaking things.

I'd like them to include ChaoticAUR by default, like Garuda does, but it's straightforward enough to add manually. If you haven't used ChaoticAUR before, it's a precompiled version of the AUR - very fast, because it acts like any other Arch source. No waiting around for AUR compiles.

My next challenge with CachyOS is integrating the boot with TPM, so I don't have to manually unlock my disks at startup. If that's successful, I don't think I'll be distro-hopping for a long, long time.

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This kind of innovation is what got me into Linux in a big way in the late-2000's. I'd been pottering about with it since 2005, but when Compiz landed properly - maybe around 2007/2008, with Beryl and Emerald themes, suddenly Linux was just... cool! Wobbly windows, spinning cubes, fires consuming windows, genie effects when minimising. It was awesome.

I'm convinced that Compiz was why Microsoft launched that abomination, Vista, with it's exceedingly Emerald-like "glass theme" and a very familiar looking alt-tab animation!

Anyway, this project gives me the vibe. Obviously, it'll be less impactful, needing a VR headset to work, but it's still just incredibly sci-fi. I love it.

(p.s. I still use wobbly windows today, although the fire effect has been replaced by the "old tv turning off" effect, and I don't need a cube anymore, cos 4K screen mean I only need two surfaces. but it's still cool!)

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Wine 11 for Win 11. Incredible work from the team - the rate of progress just doesn't feel like it's ever let up since they moved to more a formal release schedule.

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JC3 came out in 2015, which makes me feel old.

Considered picking this up to try out the latest one, which came out in 2018... but it's encumbered with Denuvo. Oh well.

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Bungie just continues to not want my money. The absolute hundreds I'd have spent on Destiny 2 by now if they'd just ticked the "Linux on BattleEye" box.

Bizarre, but I've come to terms with their attitude now and I've had their creator page ignored for quite some time.

Feel feel to "ignore creator" with me by visiting their page and hitting the settings cog at the top right. It's quite cathartic!

https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/Bungie [External Link]

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Absolutely no idea what to make of that trailer! On to the wishlist it goes!! 😅

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