Sounds like something written at the likes of Manjaro which differ enough from plain Arch for it to be problematic.
To be honest, with EOS the point is moot - they have their own excellent forums and if you do insist on going to the Arch forums, just say you’re using Arch.
Jist install EndeavourOS. You’ll get the wallpaper and the best distro to boot.
Can confirm EOS works beautifully with Steam and has done for all the years I’ve used it.
The pros are that it’s hip and trendy and almost complete (and has been for the past 15 years).
The cons are it doesn’t work & has insane failure modes that maximise downtime.
100% agree. JC3 is a gem of a game
I’m going to split this in to two categories: 1) games that were the best for their time, but perhaps don’t hold up nowadays. 2) Games that are the best today.
GoldenEye. This game was just so good both single and multiplayer. It was revolutionary, amazingly close to the film and a real challenge to complete. It was a huge game changer and entered in the modern era for such games.
I just really like Just Cause 3. It’s such fun, great visual, even better game mechanics, cool soundtrack, a true open world and massive destruction, endless ways to approach every situation.
From my experience this kind of thing was a solved problem over a decade ago - it was at least good enough by far.
I’ve started it but only got a couple of hours on before being distracted by other time sinks. I mist have gone through the HL1 starting train ride more times than I’ve had hot dinners.
Completed it last week for the first time and it really does look good. There is so much that’s right in the game. There’s a reason people still cry out for another HL game and raytracing isn’t it.
I understand why some might feel it looks good, but it actually really ruins the feel of the game. Darkness and contrast is a good thing.
I also have a 5700xt and was hoping with what AMD had been saying about stock to pick up a 9079xt at MSRP. But then the sites that had them all died and I couldn’t get to the checkout. I’m now waiting for things to hopefully recover to normality in the summer.
Of course it’s fun. But is more realistic destruction more fun?
My favourite game is Just Cause 3 and it’s the same. But would it be better if it was more realistic destruction? No.
Can I ask who cares about this kind of thing? Why don’t they have more jobs for “making the games fun”? There seems to me to be a point where added realism is detrimental to fun, especially when resources are directed away from the fun.
The “PC” in that statement is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
Thank you to everyone who helped here. The monitor arrived this evening. Got it all setup with 2x 27" 1440 screens on arms connected over DP. KDE identified it straight away and ran at the full 180Hz with no configuration. Only thing I had to do was set the scaling to 100% instead of 125%. Played some Doom at a solid 180fps and it’s really nice. Then some Metro Exodus where I get between 60 and 110, all looks lovely. The colours are pretty similar to my 27" Dell, but I haven’t tried matching them 100% accurately.
Well done Linux devs for making this possible and easy.
PS, I should have had my second monitor on an arm years ago!
Others have stated how they’re different already. To an end user the difference is that EndeavourOS is incredibly good, whereas Manjaro is a bit pants.
Been running EndeavourOS for a few years now and it really is the best desktop OS I’ve ever used. It’s up to date, fast, always works, looks beautiful and an update is just a yay away.
Thanks. That fills me with a lot more confidence. Trigger pulled on the monitor.
I had Slackware running on a couple of 386 machines with 200MB hard disks. It was impossible to do almost anything as it was all compile from source but I didn’t have the disk space to install all the compiler tools and what I was trying to run on them. I was originally going to use them as part of a distributed system for my degree, but in the end I didn’t use them and did something different instead.
I used CentOS at work a lot for several years and liked it, but only fully switched form Windows at home 10 years ago and I went to Ubuntu at the time. Installed KDE on it, messed around with i3 and had a great time. I then went hopping and landed on Endeavour OS which I’ve been really enjoying for many years now and have no intention of moving from. All my servers still run Ubuntu LTS Server as it has been unbelievably solid.