Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: 14I don't think I had any unexpected issues with the multiple Arch machines I maintain.

Just expected issues?

I've been running Arch for the past four years.

Last year, many people found out that Arch does not automatically upgrade GRUB; you need to do that yourself. This became an issue when a new GRUB version wasn't compatible with the old version for [reasons], I forget.

I also got my laptop serviced and after some testing was run in the BIOS, my bootloader was broken. I needed to re-install GRUB via LiveCD.

Two years ago, my sound suddenly disappeared. This was the pipewire-media-session➜wireplumber transition (or maybe pulse to pipewire, I forget). It took me several hours to figure out how to get my sound back, and in the process, I learned the basics of pulseaudio sound sinks. This knowledge continues to come in handy many years later as I regularly need to use Pavucontrol to reroute audio streams to the right audio device whenever I plug my laptop in via HDMI, as for some reason that causes it to become greatly confused with some programs (but not others). I don't have much love for audio configuration on Linux.

Over the past few years, several programs like Anki have no longer opened after being updated—and actually, Anki has been broken for a few weeks now. This underscores to me the value in separation between host system and user programs that Silverblue creates. I'd rather use Verified Flatpaks though, and Anki doesn't have much interest in adopting the package.

There have been a few other incidents not significant enough for me to remember in any detail.

Breakage on Arch tends to visit me every few months, but for a long time I've viewed breakage as inevitable on Linux. The only difference is I know how to fix the breakage on Arch, but I wouldn't have a clue if you put me in front of Ubuntu or openSUSE. Part of that is lack of experience; the other part is complexity.

...but I've been playing with Fedora Workstation/Silverblue lately, and I've had my perspective challenged.

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Quoting: spacemonkeyWould you say that Ubuntu is the best OS if you just want things to work and not tinker, especially for gaming?

It's certainly billed that way.

Though don't install Steam through the Snap Store. It's buggy and Valve recommends either the Flatpak or their official .deb package.

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Quoting: westurnerWhat are some solutions to anti-cheat on
Linux?

Grow Linux so that it's too big a market for anyone to decide to just ignore. That's it; that's the only solution.

If only that happened over 20 years ago because at this point, Linux will never reach a large market at the rate it's going.

Huh? Our market-share seemed to have exploded last year, after endless years of hovering just around 1%. This is probably in large part thanks to the Steam Deck, and we're already getting noticed by more developers, just not the ones whose games you probably don't want to buy anyway (EA, Ubi...)

While it's great that Steam Deck has helped with increasing the marketshare, it still pales in comparison to Windows and unless Linux reaches levels that make it compelling enough for these companies to invest in creating solutions for their anti-cheat software, they don't care enough to deal with it and instead, block access without trying.

A 100% increase in market share in 2 years isn't bad.

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I mostly play multiplayer games, and it's sad to see ever fewer are possible to play through Proton due to anti-cheat.

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It's going to be fun seeing the stats change over time: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/users/statistics/

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This looks pretty cool.

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Oh, so that's why it wasn't working for me. I'm glad I can play Halo: MCC finally too.

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Quoting: Luke_Nukemsoooo.... folks are still updating distros live via a terminal in desktop and expecting things to be smooth every time?

Y'all should at least switch to a TTY to update, that way if you stomp the desktop your update will at least finish.

This, plus the need to restart various services is why an update-reboot (such as in fedora) is good.

Fedora users only need to click "Update & Restart" on GNOME Software or KDE Discover and it will perform an offline update. No need to think about this kind of stuff.

I've personally never updated from a TTY and never had an update interrupted in the years I've used Linux, but using Silverblue has been reassuring because the update doesn't even need to be applied offline; it's always applied completely or not at all.

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Quoting: MohandevirJust got the upgrade, on my PC... After the update, I was left with an empty desktop. All the apps had been removed. I had to reinstall the desktop with "pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -" to get them back.

Hu... rray!

How...how did that even happen? What?

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If they could release it in Australia first...

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