Linux

Did i read correctly that the launcher downloads both the client and the wine together? Also, with the news today, getting rid of dx9, will that affect all of us in Linux?

The whole point of pulseaudio is to have a single sound server interface instead of a multitude of drivers.
Sure some people prefer their own custom-made sound configurations - that's fine - have your system your way.

But CCP is not officially supporting Linux at all.
We're lucky that a couple of devs are nice enough to - unofficially (no doubt CCP simply doesn't want to be legally obligated to provide support - because that's simply not financially in their interest) - help with Linux installs. And we're profiting from the fact that they have to do a lot of this work anyway for the Mac client (which is at the bottom also a unix-like and also using a wine-variant).

So I really don't see CCP investing any hours to track problems for obscure sound driver configs that are a tiny fraction of even the 1% of Linux gamers.

And I think you're missing the point of having a sound server (!= sound driver) like pulseaudio. It doesn't matter that your sound card can by itself do all the high level stuff that pulseaudio might implement on top of lower level drivers - the point is to have a single interface for all the software out there. For the sound *functioanility* pulseaudio might be a redundant layer on your system - but seen from the rest of all software - pulseaudio is a single interface to manage sound on your machine so that not every single program has to worry about alsa, oss, etc....

Just like software runs on generic io and graphics interfaces - instead of having to worry about a zillion different cards/disks and drivers combinations.
A program can write through a generic file system interface - without having to worry whether that is on hdd, ssd, ram or even on via a network.

I have installed Manjaro rolling release on my old Dell XPS M1710 laptop recently, but I'm still a linux rooky and just trying different distros out (before Manjaro I tried Open Suse, but my laptop didnt agree with it for some weird reason).

Normally I'm running Eve on my Windows 10 desktop (and probably will continue doing this), but I would like to contribute a bit to the Linux community. I know the first post says you have enough people now, but if you need to test it on Manjaro, please lemme know?

There is something wrong with your setup.

In my even older than yours WINE I run 3 clients and all use about 1gig each.

After the new launcher install, using that newer version, I noticed the ram comsumption is a tad lower, which allows me to run my 3 clients with 5gigs of ram rather easy.

Im sorry I cant help you more, to find out what makes your client consume a ton more, but Im not that knowledgeable.

I'm on fedora 24.

I've been using the posted launcher for the past week, and it's awesome.
I see you already have all the duders you need, so good luck?

AMD sucks, life is sucks

That is because the "settings" folders are at a different location. I spent hours looking for them but once you find them, you can copy & overwrite your EVE settings (it's a folder with many files but small ones) to the new location and everything is as it used to.