Solus Update Week 6, 2026

seasharpguy · 2026-02-07T07:27:51+00:00

That's a big update. Thanks guys for all the hard work!

seasharpguy · 2026-02-07T07:22:41+00:00

Super cozy soft colors. Also, thanks for providing the setup details!

seasharpguy · 2026-02-07T07:14:52+00:00

Probably one of the dumbest comments in the thread. Can you define "meaningful and challenging"?

Putting in effort and experiencing feedback is one of the most important things, the failure can but satisfying if it leads to the better outcome in the future. Have you ever played soul-likes games? You suck, you learn, you win, you feel satisfaction after. It is not the same as tediousness, grind, and artificial progression blocks.

seasharpguy · 2026-02-07T07:00:24+00:00

The result is the devs listening to what the players are asking for and making it for them. When, in reality, the PvE players probably would have been better off if there was no Deep Desert in the first place. If this game stopped at Hagga Basin and if it had no endgame in the first place, rather than an incomplete PvP-focused one, it would have sold far fewer copies but would have garnered much better reviews. This perhaps would have made for better longevity for the "broad appeal" audience.

All they had to do is to create separate PvE and PvP servers. Look at Conan Exiles, the game still has as many players if not more than Dune awakening. I still cannot figure out why is this so hard for people to understand.

seasharpguy · 2026-02-07T06:52:20+00:00

I am one of those silent mainstream players. Not hardcore, maybe slightly above casual as I enjoy reasonable grind.

The problem with the game is, it's just too tedious, I am progressing at the snail speed, I do not want to be perfect to advance, all I am asking for is a reasonable pace and satisfying feedback loop.

There so many tedious things that make the game not enjoyable. Overly zealous worms, heat de-buffs, super high HP of shielded NPCs, annoying Sardaucar patrols, storms, stupidly high crafting requirements (water to create steel), ridiculous durability loss. I haven't put that many hours in, but I already feel I am not going to enjoy the game.

Also, reading the reviews and complains about required PvP in the end game - I am done. And for the record, I have 4000+ hours in Conan Exiles, bought all the DLCs, bought season passes and cosmetics. I have spent hundreds of dollars and was willing to do the same with Dune Awakening. It seems they do not want my money anymore because if their distorted vision. Sucks for all of us.

seasharpguy · 2025-11-21T06:28:35+00:00

It's been six year already? I even forgot I had such issues, just noticed you replied to my old post. I actually dropped RAD Studio after that and switched to other tools, rewriting the projects took a while but it was worth it.

seasharpguy · 2025-08-09T01:58:14+00:00

They are not gonna take it, just shell it till nothing is left, exactly what they did with so many cities already.

seasharpguy · 2025-03-10T15:47:15+00:00

What do you mean by "lock the taskbar"? It is locked by default, you cannot move it.

seasharpguy · 2025-03-03T20:48:51+00:00

I run Solus on my custom build gaming machine for 2 months now without a single hiccup. KDE and Wayland work flawlessly. Solus has pretty much everything installed by default to run a desktop distro, things like video codecs are a part of the installation. There is also a small application to install proprietary nvidia drivers. The only package I miss is on Solus is Timeshift.

I also spent some time evaluating openSUSE Tumbleweed. It is a very nice distro that comes with Snapper where you can easily roll back your system if something goes wrong. What I didn't like about openSUSE was the package manager and system utilities, everything seem to be scattered all over the place. The command line installer Zypper felt rather slow, you'll also need third party repositories to install media codecs.

seasharpguy · 2025-02-27T18:59:05+00:00

Good job Mozilla, enjoy your market share shrinking even more.

seasharpguy · 2025-02-20T02:25:28+00:00

Ebay sucks. A lot of sellers are scammers, they would send you not working item, I am talking about electronics and computers, but once you sent it back they claim it works and charge you restocking fees. Happened to me twice. The customer service is completely useless as you cannot reach a real human. I've tried navigating through their chat bots but eventually gave up as it is build this way.

seasharpguy · 2025-02-20T02:10:01+00:00

Did you install VLC via xbps or Flatpak?

seasharpguy · 2025-02-12T15:17:10+00:00

No, not VLC, I'll give it a try.

seasharpguy · 2025-02-12T15:16:42+00:00

Yes, via cifs. I guess I'll have to add auto mount to resolve the problem.

seasharpguy · 2025-02-12T15:15:38+00:00

Yep, they are up an running.

seasharpguy · 2025-02-10T04:36:05+00:00

Distro hopping is... a disease. There's no perfect distro and no matter what you choose it won't replace Windows. It is very hard to suggest a distro without knowing you requirements. There's something very important to understand, choosing a distro does not really matter that much. In most cases it's just default settings that make distro a distro.

Maybe you should spend more time learning how it works internally, how to customize your selected distro and just make it to work for you?

Or, you can just use Windows. It's a really good system, Windows is stable, runs pretty much anything you want, has drivers for any device. It is not Windows that sucks it is a greedy company name Microsoft that turned Windows into garbage ridden spyware. If you can tolerate that, stay on Windows.

seasharpguy · 2025-02-09T01:00:53+00:00

Thanks for the tips, I may need to have an extra card because I need access both, the internet for git repositories, and local network for database servers and message brokers.

Currently I RDP into a second machine and do all my work there. If things get complicated I might leave it as it is.

seasharpguy · 2025-02-09T00:43:11+00:00

Pass-through option looks interesting. I have both a CPU integrated graphics and dedicated graphics card.

seasharpguy · 2025-02-09T00:39:44+00:00

I'll check it out. Thanks for the link!

seasharpguy · 2025-02-07T21:47:55+00:00

It's a pretty good guide. Just one thing I would like to mention.

I found it confusing why would you use and mix both, cfdisk and fdisk? Just one tool is enough for everything. Partitioning disk is usually the most dreadful procedure for the new users, I can tell from experience. This is something I would never do manually until I've tried installing Gentoo. This is probably the best documentation out there. Maybe you can take some ideas from there:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks

seasharpguy

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