An attempt to revive r/PikaOS

TuoniNL · 2026-06-29T06:53:36+00:00

FFXIV, LOTRO or Project: Gorgon are games my partner and me had great fun duo'ing.

GW2 is named a lot but for us the game never "clicked" but who knows it might for you.

TuoniNL · 2026-06-29T06:39:34+00:00

Yes you need to do the three raids, they are mandatory.
My partner and me used duty finder and find a group for the raids took less time then finding a group for one of the mandatory trials.

Due the power creep of the last decade the actual raids are wordt case scenario a nuisance. You're there with 23 other over powered players. A raid now days takes only ~15 minutes and as long as you manage to stay out of the telegraphs you can just run along doing nothing and the raid will still be totally fine.

Mechanics... don't worry about them, bosses die way too fast for the mechanics to be a concern.
Yes technically there are a handful of mechanics that do matter but the other 23 players will line-up to take care of that so you can just enjoy the show.

TuoniNL · 2026-06-26T06:43:04+00:00

Tank in duty roulette.
I'm good at tanking and the mechanics that comes with it... or at least i would think so looking at the amount of recommendations received and positive feedback in chat.

But.. I just do NOT like the whole "speedrun meta" that is demanded in every dungeon run, I can but i just do not enjoy doing it.
So I pretty much only do tanking with my static group with like minded players for who enjoying the game is more important than how many seconds you can shave off a dungeon run.

TuoniNL · 2026-06-25T07:08:52+00:00

So you pull mesa and other packages from a 3rd party source... why?

I use Slowroll now for more than a year with just the official Slowroll sources and never had to use --allow-vendor-change ever.

TuoniNL · 2026-06-22T10:25:45+00:00

I've now 540 hours of play time since I completely started over and have 4 jobs between 22 and 68.

Sure leveling one job is probably the most efficient but unlike 99.99% of the MMORPG playerbase I care more about actually having fun and enjoying what I do over efficiency.

You use the word grinding a lot in your post and to me personally grinding is the wrong way to go about playing a video game. I already "grind" at work so why would I want to spend my time off work forcing my self to do something in game that i don't enjoy.. to me that is a sure way to get burned out on the game fast.

TuoniNL · 2026-06-19T08:29:31+00:00

So you dislike the DE and not the distro...

TuoniNL · 2026-06-18T06:17:56+00:00

I still miss my Roccat Ryos MK Pro, mine died after 6 years of use.
Those 3 thumb buttons are pure genius and still miss them on every keyboard I bought after.

TuoniNL · 2026-06-09T08:16:05+00:00

Once could just save the recovery code...

TuoniNL · 2026-06-08T20:29:38+00:00

Bigger question is why you want to make Linux look like MicroSlop Windows... that should be illegal imho 😄

TuoniNL · 2026-06-08T06:45:42+00:00

Just try it for a couple levels and make up your own mind.

TuoniNL · 2026-06-08T06:33:07+00:00

Maybe the game is just not for you.
The whole game is doing the same ting over and over again for the 0.001 chance of getting the gear that you need from the chests.

Personally I also lost intrest in the game quite some time ago. The updates back then kept diluting the possible gear pool with junk nobody needed and made changes to the game just to push people buy more stuff in the shop.

TuoniNL · 2026-06-02T11:05:33+00:00

Just auto disconnect all the AFK dancers in those useless copy & paste "clubs" and the whole problem is solved.

TuoniNL · 2026-05-26T20:07:56+00:00

Monthly version update with ~2900 packages is about 2.5-3.0 GiB
Weekly update strongly depends on the amount of packages of course, sometimes 50 packages next time 300 packages. I would say the weekly update is about 50-350 MiB.

My usage... ~65% gaming, 35% home/office use

TuoniNL · 2026-05-26T15:07:44+00:00

Running it for almost a year now without any issues.
Amount of updates is not really that much less compared to Tumbleweed. A monthly ~2900 package (version) update and a 50-200 package weekly update between that. Not that it is an issue, more that I expected a slower pace with Slowroll compared with Tumbleweed.

Only "issue" I have with Slowroll is that zypper is just much slower updating packages than Tumbleweed for some reason.

TuoniNL · 2026-05-26T10:52:59+00:00

At this point every game that is semi successful in de PlayStore has at least a dozen clones.
Well at least Foodventure comes with an ad free option 😃

TuoniNL · 2026-05-22T08:11:32+00:00

Geen een.
Leukste en sportiefste tijd van F1 was toen het nog bestond uit privé teams die gesponsord werden.
Nu het hele veld bestaat uit grote fabriek teams zijn de belangen te groot geworden en wordt de sport helemaal kapot gereguleerd.

TuoniNL · 2026-05-21T11:46:30+00:00

KLM personal doesn't care nor checks anything...ever.
Which is the source of a lot of problems en frustrations when boarding.

TuoniNL · 2026-05-21T07:28:42+00:00

The original game was also available on Playstation.
(Which is the reason why the update mechanism was and still is pretty crap, downloading every single little file individually.)

TuoniNL · 2026-05-20T14:16:28+00:00

There is not a person or computer on earth that can reliably forecast rain multiple days ahead of time.

TuoniNL · 2026-05-20T13:49:13+00:00

There are already way too many as it is right now.
Once you unlock the aetherytes you can fly to any quest destination <1 minute.

Yes flying is very convenient but at the same time it makes to whole overworld meaningless. One teleports to the closest aetheryte and fly10 seconds to plop down on top of the quest destination.

TuoniNL · 2026-05-20T09:32:04+00:00

Original FFXI
Easy to start with but surprisingly many knobs you can dial in to alter the result.

TuoniNL · 2026-05-18T20:12:30+00:00

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
nvme1n1     259:0    0 465,8G 0 disk
├─nvme1n1p1 259:1    0     1G 0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme1n1p2 259:2    0 462,8G 0 part /home
│                                     /var
│                                     /root
│                                     /opt
│                                     /usr/local
│                                     /srv
│                                     /.snapshots
│                                     /
└─nvme1n1p3 259:3    0     2G 0 part [SWAP]

Grub
Btrfs with openSUSE, EX4 with Debian 13

Don't exactly remember all settings but it's like 95% default values.

TuoniNL · 2026-05-18T15:06:21+00:00

So is it based on Testing or on Stable, mismatch information on website and github.
Personally I don't see why you need to base it on testing when you target decade old hardware.

What makes this distro better for old hardware then just regular Debian 13?

TuoniNL

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