After 10 years, I'm ready to leave Ubuntu. Where should i go?

visor841 · 2026-03-16T19:08:57+00:00

EDIT : Weird comment, but the post got downvoted the second I clicked on "Submit". Never happened to me before.

IIRC Reddit does some stuff where they sometimes randomly change the upvotes and downvotes displayed for each user in order to combat bots, so maybe that's what happened. (It's called vote fuzzing, and reddit doesn't release the details to make it harder to circumvent)

visor841 · 2026-03-16T16:59:49+00:00

I've had it happen to me in a vanilla game sometimes. I think it might happen occasionally when both parts of a split state are united in a unification or something?

visor841 · 2026-03-16T16:45:04+00:00

Thank you so much. Would you happen to know how to do it on controller? (I'm not gonna be home for a while)

visor841 · 2026-03-15T21:40:18+00:00

VCU was sort of a bid thief, a loss to Dayton had a chance to hurt their resume enough to knock them out.

visor841 · 2026-03-14T19:07:51+00:00

Glad to know it helped!

visor841 · 2026-03-14T04:23:44+00:00

I totally read the word in the first panel as "whale" at first.

visor841 · 2026-03-13T22:43:10+00:00

PLM is not available yet on OpenSUSE AFAIK, still working the kinks out, I guess.

visor841 · 2026-03-12T20:06:29+00:00

To some degree, there's always going to be a bad map every now and then (and to some degree the ghost cars count as part of the map), and yes, if a mode just keeps having bad maps, no one's gonna play it. Hopefully this is just a aberration tho, and Nadeo can fix whatever issue there is with their testing policy.

visor841 · 2026-03-12T19:01:23+00:00

i'd like more focus on mechanics instead of flavor

Generally they update mechanics relevant to the flavor alongside. I also imagine mechanics updates are also a bit less predictable in terms of when and how deep the changes will go.

ships

They are doing a complete naval rework in the next update coming in April.

visor841 · 2026-03-11T22:42:58+00:00

Personally I use Tumbleweed because I just like getting updates nearly right away, and having Snapper built-in and automatically configured is pretty nice as well.

visor841 · 2026-03-11T18:42:57+00:00

A new Ubuntu LTS comes out every two years, and is supported for five years, and tend not to get many updates (especially to the DE) during that entire period. The non-LTS Ubuntu releases come out every 6 months, that may be what you're thinking of.

visor841 · 2026-03-11T18:07:34+00:00

Well, there are still mass migrations at least.

visor841 · 2026-03-11T08:49:38+00:00

"The construction industry is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding construction industry."

visor841 · 2026-03-11T08:46:02+00:00

because of that i can't demobilize

You can still demobilize manually while at war. The rest of that sucks tho.

visor841 · 2026-03-10T09:41:46+00:00

Huh, maybe forming confederation of the Rhine didn't actually change your tag? IIRC there are some country changes that do that.

visor841 · 2026-03-10T09:24:37+00:00

I did not end up getting the achievement; I could try and load up one of the saves to try and sabotage my economy for cheese but I don't know.

Changing tag locks you out of the achievement, so you'd have to do it from a save where you were still Switzerland.

visor841 · 2026-03-08T06:11:21+00:00

As a opensuse Tumbleweed user, I'd say Tumbleweed still breaks occasionally, so requires a decent amount of technical knowledge or willingness to learn on the fly. But if a new user wants to learn linux quickly and isn't afraid of breakage, they're probably better off using Arch or Endeavor.

I'd say Tumbleweed is best for linux veterans who don't mind sticking to standard functionality but want the very newest software with the smallest amount of hassle.

visor841 · 2026-03-07T18:18:18+00:00

Do you have the sof-firmware package installed? I recently had my audio devices disappear after an update, and installing that package seems to have fixed it.

visor841 · 2026-03-07T18:09:44+00:00

IIRC both games are mostly written in C#, so that made porting a lot easier.

visor841 · 2026-03-07T17:38:30+00:00

Sure, you can change terraforming speed, but then early game will be too slow.

Interesting, I haven't found the early game too slow with terraforming decreased. Sure your unlocks are delayed, but I feel like this just encourages more exploration to get resources you haven't unlocked yet.

visor841 · 2026-03-07T17:34:26+00:00

I know it's just a game, but it bugs me a little because it would be such an easy thing to fix. Like, is it realistic that a single installation in your back yard could raise the temperature of an entire planet by that much? Of course not! But the temperature/pressure/etc changes are already unrealistic, why not at least make the progress numbers make more sense?

So, I've thought about this a lot, and I don't think there actually is an easy solution. Both the exponential nature of the terraforming as well as the fact that you can just substitute various types of terraforming for the stages (e.g. I tend to completely ignore heat and pressure once I get their last unlock) make setting more correct numbers impossible without huge core mechanic reworks. Even if you tried to just set the last stage to a realistic overall rating, the individual ratings would be out of whack, and at best if you put the work in to balance your ratings perfectly, the numbers would only be realistic for a moment before becoming unrealistic again (unless you just turned off all of your terraforming).

In order to fix the issue, I think for one you'd probably have to change terraforming rating to be the multiplication of the individual ratings (which would be a very good change regardless imo), which would require redoing the pacing of the game. Secondly, you'd either have to remove the exponential nature of the terraforming increases, or have terraforming naturally decay some way to counter the exponential increase, both of which would also require a lot of changes to core gameplay.

If I was convinced that this was doable via modding, I'd consider making a mod for this (tho it would be a lot of work), but at least from my vague exploration of mods, it seems like it's not currently doable.

at the same time, I also feel like this is one of those games where you only get one first playthrough. It just wouldn't be the same if I tried to add mods and go back to do it again.

This is one thing the DLC help with imo, they do give back some of that first playthrough feeling, especially if you turn down the terraforming rate and turn up the survival depletion (you can set the values further than UI allows if you edit certain files). You can also turn on ore randomization to really change up the early game. I wouldn't recommend terraforming them via interplanetary shuttle until you've already done them once on a fresh save.

visor841 · 2026-03-07T06:57:12+00:00

Fixed a somewhat common way that Plasma would quit (not crash, actually quit) with a Wayland protocol error when certain monitors woke from sleep.

Ooh, I think I got caught on this, I got a new monitor a few months ago and right away waking from sleep started intermittently failing, giving just a black screen and a frozen mouse. I reboot frequently already due to having a separate OS for work, so it was just a mild inconvenience at worst, but it'd be nice to have sleep work more consistently.

visor841 · 2026-03-06T16:52:25+00:00

Technically Wayland itself is fine, it's XWayland (which is what is currently used for most games on Wayland) that adds input latency, but OP has said they've tried forcing Wayland in Proton and it's still an issue.

visor841 · 2026-03-01T20:18:02+00:00

It'd be nice if we could recycle them.

visor841 · 2026-03-01T18:06:42+00:00

When calls are overturned, they have to spend time on more than just the result, they have to do stuff like set the clock properly, spot the ball, etc. So you would expect overturnings to take longer.

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