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It's worth noting that Endeavour was first released during the period where Arch didn't have an install script (archinstall), so it made more sense back then than it does now.

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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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Quoting: GerarderloperI hope Valve shows us some OVERHEAD hit for all these, especially x86 via FEX

I want to know how badly these translation layers are going to EAT up CPU/GPU resources as they do their thing.

People have already been running x86 games on their arm phones for a few years, if you want to see how they perform simply search for winlator/gamehub gameplay on youtube, the steam frame used the snapdragon 8 gen 3 so thats what you want to look at. You can natively on device play modern AAA games like E33 with it but the performance won't be great (720p, 15~ avg fps)

Lighter games often run very well, something like monster hunter world runs at a stable 720p 30fps. The frame will likely be even more optimized.

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I 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).

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Quoting: geckofish52Forgive my ignorance, but my understanding is that unlike Manjaro, which lumps Arch updates into point releases, Endeavour is basically an Arch installer. So what constitutes a new "release"?

A new splash screen.

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Yeah.... I'll believe it when I play it.

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You can use ProtonUp-Qt to add Luxtorpeda into Steam, then select it via the Compatibility tab for X-COM and it will let you pick OpenXcom Extended to run it with. Tracks playtime correctly too. Nice!

Just tested it and it took only a few seconds to set up. I was not aware this is possible, amazing!

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Is that Princess Fiona from Shrek in the first Steam screenshot? Sure looks like it...

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Personally i dont care about this game but it really sucks for people who liked/still like it.
Hopefully Community can create private server if nothing comes out of the Rust developers offer.
at least theres 1 year to collect the data for the community to come up with the solution.

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I'll probably get it if it gets cheap enough on sale and doesn't suck. lol

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Last Peter Molyneux game I played was Black & White when his studio earned the nickname "Lyin' Head" for all of his broken promises.

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Quoting: ArehandoroWill all Steam Deck Verified games run at 4K@60FPS? Cause they said all Steam Machine Verified games would...

720p upscaled. The poor 7600 AMD GPU can only do so much, it also only really has access to FSR3.
FSR4 will only give %10 better performance at a slight improvement of image quality because only the RDNA4 hardware has proper access to NPU stuff.

Honestly, its a DAMN shame they didn't get a 9600 GPU into these things, but I guess Valve just buying up OLD unsellable hardware at this point, since AI data-centers are locking the world out of the newer stuff for the foreseeable future. (unless you want to pay through your ass for it that is!)

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I hope Valve shows us some OVERHEAD hit for all these, especially x86 via FEX

I want to know how badly these translation layers are going to EAT up CPU/GPU resources as they do their thing.

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Steam Next Fest - February 2026 Edition: February 23 - March 2

Guessing this will be when they decide to talk more about their upcoming steam hardware and maybe even announce some pricing.

I don't know how Valve will satisfy people with pricing however as memory modules are rocketing into the outer orbits of the solar system!

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if they can get the game so its UI and game upscale correctly to 1080p or 2160p or other higher resolutions then I'd be happen. (not FSR upscaling, I mean proper vector upscaling)

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Give people the OFFLINE server application so they can host their OWN servers and continue playing with small groups of friends. THAT IS THE WAY!

Of cause it makes some game modes a little tricky such as raids unless someone hosts a 64 player or more server.

We are dangerously heading towards a future where creative arts and entertainment go bye bye on a daily basis from human history. We're essentially in the age of erasure! Erasing history!

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Peter has also done some remakes such as Masters of Origin I think, however it really only got a passing grade.

Peter often gets passing grades with his latest games but not many EXCELLENCE rated games. (or on steam, overwhelmingly positive rating)

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Display I imagine is the only one that would actually be relaxed, since we're talking about all sorts of resolutions since the Steam Machine is just a mini PC with SteamOS Linux on it. Input, Seamlessness and System Support cannot be relaxed in any way or the whole system would be a bit pointless.

Why?

The Steam Machine is a desktop computer. Why does it need full controller support? Why does it require an on-screen keyboard? Why do launchers need to be navigable with a controller?

Those make sense for Steam Deck because it's a handheld console with a built-in controller, and is not expected to be used with a mouse or keyboard. But for an ordinary desktop computer, which the Steam Machine is, all those conditions can be dropped.

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Craig did the job of a young, cocky Bond than this... Why did they decide to make him an insecure 16 year old? 🤔

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Linux_RocksFuck Amazon. Their slogan may as well be "At least we're not Walmart!"

. . . And Walmart's slogan might as well be "At least we're not Amazon!" Twins, separated at birth, one screws you in meatspace, the other online.

Haha, so true! But at least there are alternatives to Walmart. Amazon is kinda hard to avoid, at least if you want to shop online.

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We've heard this before... Only to see GOG.com put minimal effort into Linux. Actions speak louder than words, so I'll believe it when I actually see more enthusiastic action for Linux users.

I'm not obsessed with the GOG.com like seemingly everyone else; but I'd love to see more games natively supporting Linux (there's a heck of a lot of games in my Steam library that support Linux natively, with no Linux package under GOG.com).

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I dunno. It says it's shipping with Calamares, but I don't see any Tsatziki.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksFuck Amazon. Their slogan may as well be "At least we're not Walmart!"

. . . And Walmart's slogan might as well be "At least we're not Amazon!" Twins, separated at birth, one screws you in meatspace, the other online.

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I really like that desktop background!

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Fuck Amazon. Their slogan may as well be "At least we're not Walmart!" Like Walmart, you only shop there cause you have to, if you have to.

Also, for MMOs, I still recommend Final Fantasy XI. If I was gonna play one again, that'd be the one that I'd play. I've played it on PC and on PS2 back in the day.

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I couldn't get past the first 6 minutes of that video, but I'll give credit where credit is due: I've never felt more in-tune with a protagonist in a video game; it was like I was right there. Bond was bored out of his mind, and so was I!

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I always love seeing these open source versions of my favorite childhood games. From Civ2 to Cannon Fodder to this.

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: Tethys84I hope the Lord of the Rings MMO is dead. I didn't want them to make that from the start.

IIRC, Lord of the Rings is still copyrighted in some countries. Since Amazon has the license, that will (for now) mean that nobody else is making it, either. Which sucks, because I am starved for a new major MMO that's not some action-combat garbage.

But I do agree that it would have been crap anyway. Amazon just can't make games.

There is still the current MMO which I feel is really great even though its dated. It's the best Middle Earth simulator there is.

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The only reason these companies keep trying to make the next online hit is to push these microtransactions and cosmetics (which don't sell so well in single-player games), so it's obvious from the get-go that they will shut it down if they don't meet some corporate targets down the line. These games are essentially born dead.

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