#AMD #Framework 13 and #ArchLinux. It's alive! And from the beginning it just works. Not like the previous Lenovo with Nvidia, that after 6 years of driver updates still can't wake from suspend properly.
HypeBot 🔥
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The #blog post "A year of work on the ALPM project" has been released:
https://devblog.archlinux.page/2026/a-year-of-work-on-the-alpm-project/
The #blog post "A year of work on the ALPM project" has been released:
https://devblog.archlinux.page/2026/a-year-of-work-on-the-alpm-project/
the esoteric programmer
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Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-amended-the-steam-survey-for-december-2025-linux-actually-hit-another-all-time-high/
I'm quite impressed how #EndeavourOS, despite not being glamorous or hyped up as some of the rest in the list - is doing quite well at ~2.12% of the #Linux #Steam users. Not that far off from something like #Bazzite (~5.89%) and is higher even than #Fedora, #Manjaro, and #PopOS.
EndeavourOS was the boat I chose when I decided to leave #Windows few years back, and it's still going strong. Despite #ArchLinux having a rep to 'break', my PC and all of my family members' have yet to go through such a thing lol. Its rep of being not user-friendly to noobs is also not that true seeing how a solution to a problem, if any, is often one search away from the incredibly documented Arch Wiki - better than relying on hundreds of conflicting information scattered through distros' forums.
I'm perfectly aware everyone's experience is unique to their own, esp with something as fragmented as Linux, but I'd be remiss not to mention that while my EndeavourOS experience has been flawless, I've had broken/borked systems with 2 #Debian/#Ubuntu based distros (not gonna name, names), Manjaro (Arch based, though some might not agree), and even Bazzite (Fedora based). These were with #Intel/#AMD systems too that's supposedly 'ideal', at least 2 of my EndeavourOS systems meanwhile have #NVIDIA GPUs (i.e. 'not ideal'). These were a couple of years ago tho before reaching my 'final distro', EndeavourOS tho so things may have improved for these distros too.
All in all, my point is, despite not being the glamorous, popular option... THANK YOU to the EndeavourOS team for clearly putting in a ton of work to ensure our (supposedly) broken-prone systems to keep running stably.
Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valve-amended-the-steam-survey-for-december-2025-linux-actually-hit-another-all-time-high/
I'm quite impressed how #EndeavourOS, despite not being glamorous or hyped up as some of the rest in the list - is doing quite well at ~2.12% of the #Linux #Steam users. Not that far off from something like #Bazzite (~5.89%) and is higher even than #Fedora, #Manjaro, and #PopOS.
EndeavourOS was the boat I chose when I decided to leave #Windows few years back, and it's still going strong. Despite #ArchLinux having a rep to 'break', my PC and all of my family members' have yet to go through such a thing lol. Its rep of being not user-friendly to noobs is also not that true seeing how a solution to a problem, if any, is often one search away from the incredibly documented Arch Wiki - better than relying on hundreds of conflicting information scattered through distros' forums.
I'm perfectly aware everyone's experience is unique to their own, esp with something as fragmented as Linux, but I'd be remiss not to mention that while my EndeavourOS experience has been flawless, I've had broken/borked systems with 2 #Debian/#Ubuntu based distros (not gonna name, names), Manjaro (Arch based, though some might not agree), and even Bazzite (Fedora based). These were with #Intel/#AMD systems too that's supposedly 'ideal', at least 2 of my EndeavourOS systems meanwhile have #NVIDIA GPUs (i.e. 'not ideal'). These were a couple of years ago tho before reaching my 'final distro', EndeavourOS tho so things may have improved for these distros too.
All in all, my point is, despite not being the glamorous, popular option... THANK YOU to the EndeavourOS team for clearly putting in a ton of work to ensure our (supposedly) broken-prone systems to keep running stably.
After #Manjaro being a bit of a mess the last few months regarding updates and #KDE just being buggy on a rolling release distro, it was time to move my GF's laptop to #ArchLinux with a new desktop environment.
At first #XFCE looked fine as DE, but then the scaling caused some blurry fonts.
So we've tried out the new #Cosmic desktop by #System76 - and it's great so far!
Really impressed by the progress so far. Sure, some rough edges here and there, but good enough for daily usage!
The Doctor
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I currently have #Obsidian installed via #ArchLinux's repos. I've just noticed that it depends on FUSE 2†, and I'm not sure why.
I have read that the AppImage version needs it, but I thought that's more because of AppImage than Obsidian.
So, questions:
- Any idea why Obsidian needs FUSE at all? Is it just Arch, or universal?
- How to people feel about the #Flatpak version of Obsidian?
- If you're running Obsidian on Arch, are you using the one from the repos or the Flatpak version?
† I noticed this because we're currently trying to migrate #plptools from FUSE 2 to FUSE 3, and I was wondering what other things on my system depended on FUSE 2.
I currently have #Obsidian installed via #ArchLinux's repos. I've just noticed that it depends on FUSE 2†, and I'm not sure why.
I have read that the AppImage version needs it, but I thought that's more because of AppImage than Obsidian.
So, questions:
- Any idea why Obsidian needs FUSE at all? Is it just Arch, or universal?
- How to people feel about the #Flatpak version of Obsidian?
- If you're running Obsidian on Arch, are you using the one from the repos or the Flatpak version?
† I noticed this because we're currently trying to migrate #plptools from FUSE 2 to FUSE 3, and I was wondering what other things on my system depended on FUSE 2.