Staudey anything elfking has said

Thank you very much for promoting me to 'king'dom! 😀

      elfprince Whoops, I totally had you as "elfking" in my head when I wrote that, sorry! 😃

        Staudey Actually, there are some who disagreed. In my earlier posts(s) I questioned the need for super high end pcs etc, which are normally used for gaming. I apologize, it is not my concern if a user with a brand new high end game machine intends to run Solus on it.

        If I wanted to play lots of games, I too would need to invest in a stronger pc, with much more memory and 'juice power', as well as 'stick 'n rudder' etc, because keyboard and mouse just doesn't cut it! 😆

        All I know is that Solus is made for home use, and home computing, and therefore can live quite happily on an average pc. But that is just my take on it.

            elfprince Personally I'm also currently rocking hardware that is way, way below the "enthusiast" level of the typical gaming PC. That being said, I think supporting both old and new hardware is important, especially if the latter is just a matter of keeping our software reasonably up-to-date (i.e. I don't support bending over backwards, importing custom patches and so on just to get hardware working on the release date). Of course this isn't always as easy as it sounds, but ideally we would provide a good common base for everyone's needs and not exclude large groups of people because there hardware is either too old or too new (within reason).

                elfprince The truth is, that people still need to check around if Linux will be supported on a particular hardware, like it or not. Their responsibility.

                elfprince users with brand new computers must know that they may have a hard time installing some, or many, Linux distros.

                This is certainly true. However, in Solus's case, I don't think this is the problem. No one here is asking for Solus to be ready for bleeding edge hardware. The problem is that you often can't install Solus on hardware that would be supported once the install is fully updated.

                Take for example, a system with an AMD 6600, a popular budget GPU. There are many folks who have successfully installed Solus and subsequently upgraded to one of these GPUs. The current "up-to-date" kernel and drivers support it fully. But if you build a brand new system with a 6600, you won't even be able to boot the live image.

                (Side note, because tone doesn't come across too well in text format, and I don't want to come across as antagonistic: I totally respect your opinions and contributions on the forum. I just happen to have a different perspective in this case 🙂)

                      infinitymdm Totally agree. I admit also, that I don't know much. Just having a friendly (hopefully) chat on the forum on a rainy Saturday. 😁

                        infinitymdm tone doesn't come across too well in text format

                        truer words.....
                        just when you think you got yourself figured someone else will see the opposite

                          There are various reasons people buy a shiny new system, with components from the future. One of them is the gamer crowd, but also the artist crowd tends to need all the hot hardware. Especially the 3D modellers.

                          How about reducing Solus to only one desktop environment (Budgie, as that's the original Solus DE)? You guys would only need to maintain one iso. This should take a considerable amount of pressure away from the team.

                            xahodo How about reducing Solus to only one desktop environment (Budgie, as that's the original Solus DE)?

                            How about a compromise, and make it Budgie and Plasma? 😆

                                WetGeek loved that idea, too, and second the two finalists. I took murbert 's advice and found shelter...🙂

                                    Harvey Everyone on the team knows this is a problem. Everyone on the team wants a new release tagged ASAP.

                                    I've accepted Solus as is, warts and all, and that currently changes to hardware can be a tricky, hairpulling affair; and fixing the current problems are probably more trouble than what they are worth.

                                    I'm looking more for the future with the next release so that these types problems can be minimized (still opining for an ISO that automatically runs updates as part of the install).

                                    We'll see what the future brings.

                                        xahodo

                                        Not happening.

                                        Having just one DE to support would not make the new ISO appear that much sooner. Having the amount of DE's we do is not actually that big of a deal. Each has its own dedicated maintainer and the team is currently larger than it has ever been.

                                        If you support Budgie its not currently that much more effort to support Gnome or even Mate which does not update very often. Remove anyone's DE of choice and a large amount of people would leave, I know I would resign and move to another distro if Plasma stopped being available. It just does not make sense to take such an action.

                                        qsl I'm looking more for the future with the next release so that these types problems can be minimized (still opining for an ISO that automatically runs updates as part of the install).

                                        That would not help hardware support. If you can't boot the ISO because the kernel on the ISO does not support your hardware the fact that the installer can apply updates does not help you. It just stops you from needing to run sudo eopkg up -y after the initial reboot.

                                              Harvey Hardware support is a different beast than having a boot rescue and updating from live USB just to install a driver for something already supported.

                                              Some hardware isn't going to be supported for a variety of reasons. Understood.

                                              But not forcing users to be baptized in the ways of chroot is something that can be fixed.

                                                Harvey It just does not make sense to take such an action.

                                                I'm pretty sure what @xahodo said was in jest. I know my reply to him was. That's why there was a smile at the end.

                                                  I think we all understand that (a) we need to keep the ISO more current, and (b) keeping the ISO more current is not going to entirely resolve the issues with new hardware, including discrepancies between hardware support in the ISO kernel version and the kernel-current used in the installed/updated version. The ISO kernel will always lag behind the installed/updated version in ordinary course.

                                                  Something @WetGeek said about "Christmas computers" in an early comment has been rattling around in my head for a couple days. I wonder if whether we could time semi-annual ISO releases to hardware cycles? I don't know if this is still true, but in the past new hardware came in semi-annual release cycles, one in the Spring for July/August "back to school" computer builds and the other in late Summer for October/November "Christmas" computer builds.

                                                  If we could release a new ISO in, say, May/June and October/November each year, it might help reduce the "It runs on the installed version but not on the ISO ..." friction.

                                                    tomscharbach about "Christmas computers" in an early comment has been rattling around in my head for a couple days.

                                                    mine too, it was all the poor brand new rad Triple Mega Gaming Quake cpu/gpu owners that wetgeek imagined under their stockings, near the tree, angrily creating forum accounts 'cause their iso wouldn't install.
                                                    Couldn't shake that image either🙂.
                                                    /s
                                                    Ah, the romance of the seasonal ISO release, Christmas and Spring😉--must be change of the weather. You know what would be cooler? Isos released on the solstices.