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  • Aug 12, 2024
  • Joined Mar 3, 2019
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  • In Edit my review

    I love the reference to Dr Strangelove (it's a great movie).

  • In USB thumbdrive recognition trouble and stance on Ventoy
  • In What are you playing now?

    I've been playing some Apex Legends. It's great that it's finally playable on Linux (they've enabled Proton EAC support about a week or so ago).

    Today, the game even became officially Steam Deck verified.

    It works with Proton 7.0 and Proton Experimental. Proton EasyAntiCheat Runtime also needs to be installed in Steam.

    I used the DXVK state cache from here to get rid of excessive stutters. The game runs well with my GTX 1070 at 1080p, I'm getting ~ 80 FPS during the descent / jumping phase, and ~ 100-110 FPS during regular gameplay.

    It's a fun game, although I'm absolutely terrible at it.

    I'm also playing Vampire Survivors. Lots of fun to be had for an astonishingly low price.

    • In Gnome startup apps

      You can make a new menu entry for the command you want to run with menulibre.

      After doing so, you can add it to startup applications via gnome-tweaks.

      • In Launching Solus

        I'm not sure how to make the Grub adjustments you want, so I'll leave it to others to help with that.

        All I can suggest in that regard, is perhaps trying out a program called grub-customizer. I think it's included in Ubuntu repos, so you should be able to install it with this: sudo apt install grub-customizer. Maybe it has what you're looking for?

        As far as booting Solus, have you tried booting it up via the BIOS / UEFI menu by mashing an appropriate key when powering on your PC? Solus should be available as one of the options on the boot list (as far as its name on the list goes, it gets generated by your motherboard; it won't simply be named Solus, you'll have to check / guess which entry it is).

        • In Solus vs.Censorship

          To use the Tor browser, you'll need to install the torbrowser-launcher package. Installing will pull in the required dependencies as well (tor and other stuff).

          You can either do it via the software center, or use this command sudo eopkg it torbrowser-launcher.

          Regarding Brave, it's included in the Solus repos as well (as is Telegram, If you wanted to see If the app still works).

          If I were you, I'd try saving up some money and pick up some yearly / bi-yearly proper VPN plan. Fortunately, the internet situation in my country is not as draconian, so I was not forced to pick up a VPN, but I'd certainly do it if I were in your shoes.

          ProtonVPN is a good one, or so I've heard. You can even use the official clients easily on Solus, as they're included in the repos. The only downside is that it's quite pricey.

          • In Problem with iiyaam G-Master, « no signal » after sleep or stop button

            Just to be sure, you're running a fully updated system?

            You could try switching to a different branch of Nvidia drivers (and reboot after doing so for the drivers change to take effect) and see If the issue persists.

            There are 3 driver branches applicable to your card: the main one, the developer branch and the beta branch.


            To install the developer branch, you can execute these commands.

            If you're on the current (non-lts) kernel branch (it's the default one in Solus):

            sudo eopkg it -y nvidia-developer-driver-current nvidia-developer-driver-common nvidia-developer-driver-32bit

            or, If you're on the lts kernel:

            sudo eopkg it -y nvidia-developer-driver nvidia-developer-driver-common nvidia-developer-driver-32bit


            To install the beta branch (for the current kernel):
            sudo eopkg it -y nvidia-beta-driver-current nvidia-beta-driver-32bit nvidia-beta-driver-common

            or, to install the beta branch If you're on the lts kernel:

            sudo eopkg it -y nvidia-beta-driver nvidia-beta-driver-32bit nvidia-beta-driver-common


            To go back to the default driver branch (current kernel):
            sudo eopkg it -y nvidia-glx-driver-current nvidia-glx-driver-common nvidia-glx-driver-32bit

            or, if you're on the lts kernel:
            sudo eopkg it -y nvidia-glx-driver nvidia-glx-driver-common nvidia-glx-driver-32bit


            The -y parameter is for making the installation command remove conflicting packages (which will be the previous driver version, you don't want to have 2 branches installed at the same time).

            If you're not sure on which kernel branch you are, you can check it with the uname -a command.


            Also, just as a small tidbit, I've been told by repair technicians that it's healthier for monitors / TVs If you don't power them off completely (don't use the power off button), and instead let it go to standby mode (where the monitor is still on, but doesn't display anything, and wakes up upon turning on the PC).

            If you get in the habit of powering it off completely, you'll shorten the lifespan of the monitor's power supply by a few years, and you'll then have to repair the monitor (replace its power supply).

            • In What are you playing now?

              Neumie I'm playing Monster Hunter: Rise as well.

              I've recently unlocked ٭6 village quests. I'm rocking the Power Gasher I switch axe and Nargacuga armour set (the evade extender armour skill is amazing for switch axe, I can roll after the beasties like a madman).

              I love the series, it's great that it's no longer exclusive to the consoles, and we can play it on PC.

              MH: R has pulled me away from other games tho (it's really engrossing), because of it I am still yet to finish AC: Odyssey.

              I've also been playing some deathmatch / free for all in Quake Live. I gotta say, the game's still got it. I've picked it up at the recent Steam sale. Thanks to Homer's EU based FFA server, playing online in this game is viable for me.

              It's nice to boot it up, and frag it out for a match or two, for some quick and intense burst of fun.

              • In What are you playing now?

                I've finished Mass Effect: Legendary Edition. It's been a hell of a ride.

                I'm still playing Assassin's Creed: Odyssey every now and then.

                I've also started playing Batman: Arkham Origins (one of the titles from my backlog of shame), which I'm really enjoying. It's been a while since I've played Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, but I'd say this game is as enjoyable as the Rocksteady games.

                When I want to play something relaxing, I boot up Dorfromantik which is an absolutely wonderful title. It's a puzzle game that plays like a cross between Carcassonne (the board game) and solitaire. It's a great title to unwind, I can recommend it even to people who are not normally into puzzle games.

              • In What are you playing now?

                zmaint How did you like Mass Effect Andromeda? Would you recommend getting it?

                I'm currently playing Mass Effect Legendary, I'm about 20-30 hours into Mass Effect 3, and I'm wondering whether I should get ME: A and play it after I finish ME3. There are a lot of conflicting opinions about ME: A. Some people like it, some say it's trash, I really don't know what to think about it.

                I've been playing the ME Trilogy mainly for the story and I don't know If ME: A is worth getting into, considering that most people say its story is really weak when compared to the trilogy. Is it good enough?

                As to some other games I've been playing recently, there's Noita which is an amazing roguelike / roguelite and Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (playing as Kassandra).

                I've also picked up Homeworld: Remastered Collection, which I'll be getting into soon. I'll be playing it with the 2.3 Players Patch.

                seanragout Don't worry about it. Imo having an Xbox is preferrable to having to dual boot and using Windows. Personally, I do dual boot, but I hate using and having to reboot to W10 so much, that I hardly ever boot it up. Mostly it goes like this - I boot it up a few times (eg to play a few matches of Halo Infinite), then I go a few months without booting it up even once. Then I boot it up a few times again, and after that I have another period without using it at all.

                    • In Firefox survival guide

                      brent Removing it is just a case of deleting the chrome folder [you created inside your Firefox profile directory] containing the userChrome.css and userContent.css files.

                      • In Firefox survival guide
                      • In Don't be me

                        ximbietc It's not a bug.

                        All package managers work the same in that regard.

                        If you install a new package, and it depends on another package that had received an update that you have not installed, installing it will result in a partial upgrade which might result in breakage.

                        Same thing happens If a dependency of a package depends on a package that had been updated.

                        Partial updates / upgrades are a no-go on any rolling distribution.

                        As to eopkg, I don't have proper expertise to judge what would be the best behaviour.

                        Anyways, a new package manager is planned for Solus, so there's really no point in trying to make any changes to eopkg.

                        It'll be replaced in the future, and any additional changes to eopkg would just go to waste, they'd be a waste of time, that could be better spent working towards other improvements to Solus.

                        • In Don't be me

                          fernkaufmann For the record: Always do all available updates in a single session. No more targeted package updates.

                          Yep, that's exactly the case.

                          You also shouldn't install new packages without updating the system beforehand.

                            • In Creating a dedicated /home partition on secondary storage devices

                              Steven_Self If you do a reinstall, and during it create and use a separate /home partition, there's no need to mess with any ownership and file permissions of that /home partition. Afaik you always have read / write / execute access on your home partition.

                              You'd only need to do it If you wanted to have read / write / execute permissions on a non-home 'external' partition.

                              • In What is the Best Torrent Client?

                                Out of all the torrent clients I've used, qBittorrent is by far the best.

                                It is powerful and has a lot of nifty features. It's like a better, FOSS version of utorrent if you've ever used it.

                                It has a built-in torrent search engine, that allows you to search for torrents (of multiple sites at once) and download them straight from its interface, without having to visit any torrent websites via your internet browser.

                                It's not enabled by default though. To enable it, go to >> View >> tick the Search Engine checkbox. After that, click on the Search tab >> Search plugins >> Check for updates. You can now use it.

                                • In Creating a dedicated /home partition on secondary storage devices

                                  Don't use chmod 777, afaik it might cause some problems.

                                  A better option would be to use the chown command to change the ownership of the /mnt/somethingSomething partition and make it belong to your user and group (which, in turn, will make your user have read / write / execute permissions in that partition that he owns).

                                  It goes like this chown -R user:group /mnt/PathToThePartition

                                  To find out your user name and group, use these commands whoami and groups - to respectively find out the user and the group. On my system the group is named the same as the user.

                                  Eg, If your user was named Steven_Self, and your group was called Steven_Self, it'd be chown -R Steven_Self:Steven_Self /mnt/PathToThePartition

                                  As to a separate home partition, it's possible to use it, but you'd need to reinstall the system to do it, I don't think there's a way to transfer an existing home directory to a new /home partition.

                                  To do it in the installer, choose the manual partitioning option, create a separate partition for /home and give it the home flag (you can add the flag via GParted).

                                • In Black Friday

                                  I've only picked up Huntdown on Steam (also available on GOG). It has a native Linux version and is currently discounted.

                                • In Show your Solus
                                • In How bad is it to only update Solus ~once a year?

                                  Yeah, I think sticking with Mint with autoupdates enabled would be better. Since she'll be getting mostly only security updates, autoupdates shouldn't cause any instability (unless she interrupts the updates mid-install, that would be bad), and the system would be kept secure.

                                  As far as Solus goes, without updating it, you don't receive any updates, and that includes all the security updates. The system would be a lot less secure, so it's not something that's recommended.

                                  As far as breakage after the yearly upgrade, whether it would happen - it's like russian roulette. The update could go smoothly, or it could have major breakage. There's no way to tell in advance.

                                  There is another option, however. You could setup some remote viewer / desktop sharing software (e.g., TeamViewer / Remmina / some other alternative) and do the updates for her remotely from time to time (every week / every 2 weeks would be best).

                                  You could also connect to her PC natively via SSH to update the system If you don't want to use any special software.