Quoting: tomaszgThey didn't have tinted glass before? Mineclone FTW! ;)

They had tinted glass. I think it's a new shade? No idea.

AFAIK, mineclone mod for minetest doesn't implement objects that aren't already in minecraft 1.12.

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Quoting: aokamiI bought it last week, couldn't wait, will the purchase count towards a Linux sale ? (What about gifts ? Is there literature on how steam sort sales types ?)

I believe these articles have the latest info on how purchases are recorded:

article 1
article 2

In the first one, it specifically states:

Hey Liam, the normal algorithm is in effect, so if at the end of the two weeks you have more playtime on Linux, it'll be a Linux sale. Proton counts as Linux.

The 2nd article states:

The Steam Desktop client takes the initial platform, then two weeks playtime to count. All others (Android, Browser) default to Windows and then two weeks playtime.

Now, if I were developing it, and I had to give some weight to the platform from which it was purchased, I'd count the platform of purchase as "1 hour" of playtime to be taken as part of the equation for determining which platform is the main platform.

If that's the case for this, you'd have to play 2 hours within the first 2 weeks on linux after purchasing it from a browser for it to count as a linux purchase. I don't know if that's actually how it works, but that's what I've been doing anyway. It sounds like you might not have to do that if you use the Steam Client to make the purchase.

@liamd
Maybe this is something you could add a note about in the Steam Play guide? Right now the only thing it states on the topic is

Also, when you buy a game on Steam and run it with Steam Play, the developer of that game will know it was purchased on Linux.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: lectrodeI have different hardware that requires different kernels

I'm curious of the details on this, if you don't mind sharing?

Most of the systems I manage are on the latest lts kernel (currently 5.4). These are mostly thinkpad laptops and some dell towers. These range from 7 to 3 years old. Mix of personal and work use. With any new kernel, I didn't migrate them right away; I kept them on the previous LTS until I deem the new LTS "stable" after a period of use on my personal systems.

At the moment, there are only 4 systems I put on different kernels. 2 of those have newer AMD hardware and have better support with 5.7 and 5.8 (one is a threadripper, the other I can't remember off hand, but it's in a lenovo ideapad that is only a few months old).

One is a system76 laptop from about a year and a half ago. I don't think it needs a newer kernel, but that's the preference of it's current user.

The last one is a bit of an oddball. ~5 year old gigabyte mobo with intel cpu and a gtx970. For some reason games freeze on it with 5.4, but work fine with 5.7. The mobo has been questionable since it was first acquired, so this might just be something with that.

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Quoting: scaine<network related issues>

You installed the 20.1 version, right? (older versions are pretty much just there for historical context, they don't make much sense for an install in most cases) Make sure your system is fully up-to-date. Once you do that, you can try different kernels as well to see if the issue might be kernel-specific. I'd try 5.4 and 5.7 specifically.

Quoting: scaineEven more bizarre - when you enter the password, it prints (still tiny) "opened slot0", then weirdly appears to reboot - I see the primary Dell logo again, only this time, it boots to my lightdm login! So freaky.

Can't speak to the full-disk encryption personally, but others have also inquired into the GUI [External Link] for it. Plymouth is in the repos, and detailed instructions for installing it are here [External Link] (granted, these instructions are for Arch Linux, but it'd be pretty similar on Manjaro). It was dropped in 2017 for various reasons. Haven't really missed it.

As far as booting goes, the default UEFI install will use the logo provided in your motherboard firmware for the boot splash. It's a feature. At least, I believe this is the case. I always use legacy over UEFI.

Quoting: scaineEdit4: It just keeps failing, an error about "one or more PGP signatures couldn't be verified".

Dropbox AUR page [External Link] has instructions for importing pgp key. This is an additional security feature some AUR packages have. If it continues to be unable to verify, it may be that the dropbox binary was updated on dropbox's website and the hash hasn't been updated yet. You can skip the verification with:
sudo pacman -S yay
yay -S --noconfirm dropbox

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Quoting: scaineTeams (boke!), Horizon, Zoom and Dropbox

In the same boat. My day job requires all of those. Of course all of those are available in the AUR. I'm one of the admins who manages horizon applications at my place of work, which makes it really easy to rely solely on my manjaro linux laptop for said work. Any windows-based tool I might need (like RSAT) I can just present to my linux laptop.

But I digress...

Manjaro has a cinnamon offering [External Link] as well, it's just not one of the "flagship" DEs.

All the community-provided ISOs can be found here [External Link].

I honestly haven't tried endevouros, but that's probably mainly because I manage around ~20 systems that all have manjaro. I haven't really run into any issues with manjaro that have prompted me to look elsewhere. If it's like arch in that there's only 1 officially supported kernel, that's a bit of a no-go for me. I have different hardware that requires different kernels, and the ability to easily switch between supported kernels is a god-send.

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Quoting: scaineYour correction report on Manjaro Linux 20.1 'Mikah' is out now with a theme refresh was:

Manjaro Linux, the semi-rolling distribution...

1. True-rolling distributions: These distributions update every part of your operating system.

2. Semi-rolling distributions: These distributions don’t update every part of your operating system. They are divided into a rolling part and a non-rolling part. These distributions often have a non-rolling core. They don’t update the kernel and drivers but do update everything else and have rolling software repositories.

Source: https://www.maketecheasier.com/linux-rolling-release-model/ [External Link]

Manjaro definitely fits the former over the latter.

I suggest you make this as a comment, lectrode, since I don't agree with it, and given that Liam lost his Manjaro install because they updated the Nvidia driver without releasing the matching kernel driver, I doubt he'll agree with it either!

It's a great observation though, and one I'm invested in - I'm thinking of trying either Manjaro or Endevour and the whole "semi-rolling" piece is putting me off Manjaro, so it would be a good/useful debate.

Thanks,
Scaine.

Per the above, continuing discussion here.

The manjaro devs still seem to be ironing out their metapackage kernel support. That was something that a recently departed member of the manjaro team would manage. The team was somewhat pushed to update the nvidia driver to 450 in a rushed manner (since a 440 update apparently broke some functionality) and neglected to update 5.7 nvidia modules right away (which is what linux-latest points to). 5.8 may also not have been updated as there were module build errors until recently.

(This is also one of the reasons I have people use the linux-lts metapackage instead of linux-latest - the actual latest kernel available occasionally has bugs or incomplete module support)

For that particular situation, it's more of an unfortunate oversight than the deliberate withholding of updates.

The metapackages were specifically created to automatically move a user to the latest recommended, or the latest lts. If you have a kernel installed that is EOL and is removed from the repos, one of these metapackages will be automatically installed to replace that kernel, install the respective updated kernel, and ensure the system is able to continue to install updates (without the metapackage, continuing to have the eol kernel leads to the inability to update). I'd argue that because this forces the kernel to be updated (if an eol one is installed), that this qualifies as a rolling release model, not semi-rolling.

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Quoting: GuestI love XFCE too. Do they plan on fixing the tearing issue ?

I haven't had screen tearing issues in Xfce for years. That was something they apparently fixed with the default compositor in the transition to gtk3 (4.14 release), but I continue to use compiz for all it's additional bells and whistles.

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Quoting: NanobangSo now I'll do what I could have done back then: asked if anyone's had a problem with installing system-wide Wine on a system using SteamPlay (not stand-alone Proton).

system-wide wine works alongside (and separate) from steam play/proton. i frequently use both - wine for black ops 2, w101, and a couple other games; steam play for marble it up, rocket league, etc. i also use lutris for world of tanks (with it's own wine runner).

all of those solutions work simultaneously without "confusing" each other.

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Quoting: axredneckGentoo and Arch-based are barely visible here

You can refresh the page to change the colors. Still weird that some colors haven't been blacklisted (denylisted?) in certain themes.

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This is so much better than the original. I love what the devs have done with this, especially the online multiplayer aspect of it.

In this release I'm especially excited for "Make Track Designs work in multiplayer" - now friends and I could use pre-designed tracks in online sessions instead of trying to re-create them by hand/memory with a funds limit.

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