Well, Endeavour is just arch. If you want, you can achieve the same install that has only the things you need, by removing things instead of just adding.

IMO it starts off closer to the config most people want, so it’s less work to take it the rest of the way.

Not even close, if you actually install barebones arch, then barebones arch is exactly that, barebones. You wont even have a DE.

Endeavour is what you want. It’s just straight up arch, but with all the stuff you’d want to set up anyway done for you.

And if you want an “app-store” style app to browse packages with, and not fiddle with the command line to manage packages, install pamac. It can be expanded with AUR and flatpak support.

With AUR it’s as easy as installing any other package, actually.

You just install the git version from AUR.

No clue. Haven’t used it in years. I was done when I went looking for a fix for the compositor thing and found a years-old open bug report.

I do want to add that new games can also require new packages, the way Alan Wake II did at launch. Even on Arch you had to compile the development version of Mesa for it to run.

Cinnamons compositor doesn’t turn off for games (it’s supposed to but has been bugged for years) which costs you fps.

Playing Alan Wake 2 at launch was only possible with the latest Mesa drivers compiled from the AUR due to some graphics features that it required.

This feature is epic. Being able to save a file to my phone from my tablet or vice versa is fantastic.

You can disable the news pop up that opens with steam, and it opens to your library, not the store page.

The only “hype” it’ll show you then are the news on the library pages for the games you own.

I have no clue what could be causing that. I’d start looking into each link in the chain and making sure it’s working.

But any halfway reasonable config should be able to handle audio playback, no matter how lossless. Audio-only just doesn’t achieve datarates that would choke up… Anything.

Essentially, benchmark file transfers, transcoding, etc. Make sure each step of how it works is in fact working. Check drive SMART health… Whatever you can think of.

Also logs. No need to read through thousands of lines, but looking at the lines time stamped around when the issue occurs is always a good idea. FFMPEG logs, JF logs, client player logs, does SMB or whatever network drive protocol you’re using have logs? If it does, check em.

I think OP is looking for a desktop application, not a selfhosted cloud platform.

Apple’s “private cloud” is a thing. Not all “Apple Intelligence” features are “on device”, some can and do utilize cloud-based processing power, and this will also be available to app developers.

Apparently this has additional safeguards vs “normal cloud” which is why they are branding it “private cloud”.

But it’s still “someone else’s computer” and apple is not keeping their AI implementation 100% on device.

You should be able to get most games to work with some extra tinkering.

Got Armored Core running in HDR with this.

Also, I found it was enough to run the just the game in gamescope, no need to run the entirety of steam in a gamescope window. Just set the launch options for the game you want to enable HDR on.

I recall that at least on KDE, in the audio settings you can enable the ability to go WAY past 100% volume.

It is! Heads up on a known bug tho, which will already be fixed in the next release. GOG games can show up as “not installable” for seemingly no reason preventing them from being installed.

Others have already commented on the accessibility stuff, and Xbox game pass.

I’ll add that if you do give it a go, I recommend heroic launcher for managing Epic and GOG games.

It is able to handle installation, as well as running stuff with the wine/proton compatibility layer, for games that need it.

Lighthouse PM

Base station commands are just simple Bluetooth broadcasts, so there is no pairing or anything.

You just get the app, and it will show you any nearby base stations, and let you broadcast the suspend/wake signal from you phone.

The fact that I still have to use an app on my phone to wake and suspend my base stations, says otherwise.

PCVR is an afterthought for Meta.

Now why has Valve returned to seemingly continue work on SteamVR in earnest, especially where Linux is concerned…

Fingers crossed they’re cooking something interesting up. Whether that’s “Deckard” or not.

Emily has always been a delight in everything she’s done.

But even as she’s appeared in videos a lot less, It’s nice to know she’s still advocating for FOSS at LTT. Hopefully that will again result in more coverage of the kind of stuff she used to host before her transition.