Quoting: EhvisNext free fly for Star Citizen should be for the IAE at the end of November. My guess would be the 24th, but I could be a week off.

Also, if you ever decide to give it a try and create an account, use someone's referral code. Not immediately useful, but if you ever decide to buy a game package, it could give you some extras if you time that right.

The LUG helper tool (https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/lug-helper [External Link]) offers random referral codes of other penguins btw ^^

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They really went through the trouble to implement a check for steam deck, just to prevent all others from playing offline?
Yeah, great move, assholes...

(Don't get me wrong, i really enjoy seeing the Deck relevant enough for Devs to cater to it!)

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There is literally not a single reason why someone in their right mind would choose to buy a game on EGS instead of Steam - usually not even a monetary reason.

I mean it's one thing to focus on the devs, but if you so openly give the middlefinger to the customers and show with every decision that you don't give a single fuck about them, then not even exclusives will save you...

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As Apple is insisting on using their proprietary stuff only and thus making life unnecessarily difficult for developers, this is a fully understandable step.
And unlike with Linux, macOS neither as the potential to gain significant % in the gaming market nor does it offer any real benefit/safeguard for Valve as Linux does.

Quoting: M@GOidAFAIK Apple started the Metal API more or less the same time AMD released their Mantle API. When Vulkan appeared, they had already invested a lot in Metal, so they made the call to continue that path.

Nobody stops them from implementing Vulkan, too though. It's not an either-or, so Apples insistence on "Metal only" is nothing but purely political.

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Really exceptionally great game, can wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone :D

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Quoting: lejimsterI'm conflicted here, because I love the Starcraft and Diablo series

Don't get blinded - that Blizzard from those times doesn't exist anymore...

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Quoting: slaapliedjeBut yeah, Arch is, I feel, not a distributions for beginners to use in the first place.

It totally is imho - but the more beginner you are, the more you have to be willing to learn and read the wiki. But if you ARE willing, Arch is a perfectly fine beginner distro. Especially with the amazing community - the "elitism" that is often criticized comes down to "we won't help you if you are unwilling to put in even the slightest effort" in my experience.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumIdeally, we want Linux to be open and accepting for all, technical users or not. I'm not suggesting we "dumb it down" though.

Well, it's fine to "dumb it down" - for some users and the distros/DEs/whatever that target those.
And yeah - for those users, there should be as many saveguards and warnings as possible.

But at the same time, that means that the user should choose a distro that fits their needs - if you don't want to learn and read the wiki, Arch probably isn't for you.

As always, problems arise when the user doesn't know what they're doing - and that includes choosing the right distro :grin:

Quoting: BlackBloodRumMeanwhile, her new iPhone my aunt got her? She is always complaining about it!

Can personally totally understand - i've never understood why Apples UX is deemed "intuitive". ^^

But my experience is similar - the people that have the least issues when switching to linux are the ones that don't know shit about computers. I guess the fact that they do not try to apply their Windows-Knowledge/Routines to it is a big factor here.
At the same time, advanced computer/Windows-Users tend to have the hardest time if they approach it with the wrong expectations.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumsince for the most part you can just follow the wiki,

You would be surprised for how many people even that poses an enormous obstacle if you take a look in the support channels xD

But yeah, you're bringing up a point that many raise against archinstall - even if manual installation is very easy indeed, it at least makes the new arch-user familiar with using the wiki (in theory).

Quoting: BlackBloodRumWindows is less user friendly than Linux, in my opinion

Couldn't agree more. My family-support-efforts dropped to near zero after i installed linux for my mother, aunt and so on...

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumBut then that's easier said than done when we're talking about people who may only be using Linux for the first time.

And that is exactly why i don't think its a good idea for beginner-friendly arch-derivatives to make AUR easily accessible.

Quoting: BlackBloodRumThe warnings just need to be amplified a bit when it comes to third-party minimally checked stuff (whether that's a flatpak, snap, aur, whatever).

Indeed - although that problem is pretty much the same as with the 'normal' windows madness of downloading and running random .exe files that most people have internalized so well...^^

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