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@Nonay-GB Nonay-GB released this 05 Jul 21:04
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GlouOS 1.1

Added

  • CurseForge in the Package Manager. The Minecraft modpack manager is
    now one tick away, in Games - GlouOS fetches the official Linux app,
    wires it into the start menu and keeps it launchable like any other app.
    (Under the hood this adds AppImage support to the Package Manager, so
    more AppImage-only apps can join the catalog easily.)

Changed

  • The Game Center now teaches Steam some manners. Two new out-of-the-box
    tips: how to skip the endless "Processing Vulkan shaders" wait (on AMD
    GPUs the driver compiles shaders on the fly, so Steam's pre-caching step
    is pure waiting), and how to enable "Steam Play for all titles" so
    Windows-only games stop showing as unsupported.
  • Boots about 10 seconds faster. On installs without disk encryption,
    the early-boot environment no longer waits for every USB peripheral
    (mice, dongles, wireless headsets) to wake up before handing over to the
    system - your disk is ready in ~3 seconds and now the boot is too.
  • Hugepages tuned for gaming. Transparent hugepages now run in
    "always" mode with deferred defrag - a few extra percent in CPU-bound
    games and a lot in emulators.
  • The file indexer stops chewing your disk. Baloo now indexes file
    names only (search still works) and skips Steam libraries, Wine prefixes
    and the Recycle Bin - no more mystery background I/O grinding away at a
    million files while you play.

Fixed

  • Upload dialogs show your files again. Websites that filter uploads by
    type (profile pictures, attachments) sent file patterns that accidentally
    filtered out the folders themselves - leaving the picker completely
    empty. Folders are now always browsable; only files are filtered.
  • Taskbar pins now sync between monitors instantly. The sync watched
    Plasma's config file, but Plasma holds fresh pins in memory for minutes
    before writing them out - so changes never seemed to propagate. It now
    reads the live state and mirrors pins and re-ordering within seconds.
  • Repo-lag breakage is now caught automatically. When a big library
    update lands before app rebuilds reach the optimized (ALHP) mirror, the
    affected apps fail to start with a cryptic library error. The Game Center
    now scans for exactly this, names the broken apps, and offers a one-click
    "Reinstall from Arch repos" repair.