Quoting: razing32If you really don't like the setup of Arch , try Manjaro or one of the helper scripts.

The problem with distributions derivatives is that their support can be dropped, like Antergos.
If, say, Xubuntu ends someday, I can always use Ubuntu mini CLI installer and simply choose xfce as DE. But I have problems with installing Arch. I tried several times, and succeeded only once, and I'm not sure what was different that time. It's something with a bootloader. I chose its every option in the installer, but the system did not start after installing. So, I don't want to use Arch-based distros if I cannot even install Arch.

Also, I don't see any reason to use Arch. Having a rolling release distro, so I wouldn't ever have to upgrade or reinstall? OpenSUSE is one too. Many software distribute as deb or rpm files only, which can be converted to each other with "alien", but Arch supports neither. More nuisances, no benefit.

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I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed with xfce recently in VirtualBox, and it seems to be a very good Ubuntu replacement. It's a rolling-release distribution, like Arch, but very easy to install and use, unlike Arch. Steam and other software can be installed by the same way as in Ubuntu, just replace "apt" with "zypper". But beware of the Linux kernel bug which prevent Steam from connecting. It was fixed in kernel 5.1.14, but openSUSE has 5.1.10 so far.

If I ever have to leave Ubuntu-based distros, I'll probably switch to openSUSE Tumbleweed.

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Go team Penguin!

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Quoting: einherjarThey want one reliable OS --> MS gives it to them.

Do you mean Windows 7? Or 8.1? Or 10? Which build, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809 or 1903? LTSC maybe? 32 bit or 64 bit?

Quoting: einherjarWe need a big popular and reliable Distro, to have enough marketshare and live the "diversity". With 1% marketshare distributed across more then 10 Distros, we will remain irrelevant (on Desktop) for most of the companies.

How having many distros can harm Linux? Imagine if there is only one Linux distro, and that distro drops 32-bit support...

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Resident Evil 4 with HD textures from http://www.re4hd.com/?page_id=6064 and d9vk.
I had to use a Windows VM to apply the 4GB patch tool and install new files. Is it possible to execute Windows .bat files with Wine? I couldn't do.

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Quoting: bird_or_cage

Quoting: sub

Quoting: TemplateRI personally think, that Valve should create a Linux-Distribution, which is NOT based on Debian or Arch. It would be much better to have more controls, hat should remain and what not.

BUT Valve should also recreate a new desktop environment, which aims more for PC instead of Console.

And call it

Crowbar Linux

Or Free Man's Linux

Linux 2 Ep 1

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Quoting: dvdI could never get into those games. CS was so good because it had fun gameplay, and it ran even on your toaster. Can't say the same of the new ones (Source, GO), even though i still like them. I don't really understand the argument that it was dated, since before GO none of it's successors or other games offered a comparable experience. (for me at least)

All you can do in CS is shoot and crouch behind boxes (I'm not saying about tactics, just about basic controls). In CoD4 you can go prone, crawl, aim down sights, use perks, unlock stuff, play more game modes. I hoped Valve would release a modern online FPS, but CS:GO appeared to be a CS:S reskin. It's not a bad game, just inferior to other online games for me.

Quoting: ElectroDDRemember that in official matches, we had 5 sec to buy equipment... And autobuyers and macros and scripts were forbidden in tournaments.

It takes only one second to b42o2o4.

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I had been playing CS 1.6 very much when I was a University student. I played rather well on LAN servers. I wish I spent time more on studying than on Counter-Strike though. My favourite maps were aztec and cbble.
I still keep screenshots made those years (2005-2007). But when I saw Call of Duty 4 multiplayer first time, I immediately realized how outdated Counter-Strike was and lost interest in it.

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Their Dota card game failed, so they are making a Dota chess game... What's next, a Dota board game?

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Quoting: KlausThe switch is pretty cheap actually at 300-330€, and comes with access to traditionally developed "full" games

…which are overpriced as hell, especially indie games, and you have to re-buy them even if you've got them on Steam or elsewhere.

Quoting: KlausLacking this support, games that will run well on a Switch will likely fall behind quickly on the much more expensive SMACH.

Or they will not. Anyway, Smach is a computer, so you'll be able to tweak games to get better performance.
But do games run well on Switch? I've seen on Youtube how games look and perform there, and it's horrible. Ugly graphics, low resolution and bad framerate for your 60€. MK11 looks worse than the mobile version of MK.

Quoting: KlausIt also will have to fight with the battery-life and performance implications of running a full desktop OS with traditional pre-mobile multitasking.

But if that OS is Linux…

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