This is a community for discussion, news, and memes pertaining to the video game sub-genre "soulslike".
Given Lemmy's size, the definition of soulslike may be treated relatively loosely. While games like the numerous FromSoft titles, the recent Star Wars Jedi games, Lies of P, Nioh and similar games should be the focus, games that incorporate soulslike elements - like Hollow Knight and Blasphemous, for example - may also be discussed here.
Basic Lemmy-quette applies. Additionally, since flairs don't exist yet, please do make sure to include a marker to denote what game your post is about in square brackets for clarity's sake. An example could be:
[BB] This enemy is so difficult!
or
[DS1] Anyone struggling with the gargoyles?
Friends:
Should you have any questions, please do let me know.
Anything new you're picking up? Any playthroughs you're finishing?
I got nothing right now, guys. Been busy playing Disco Elysium this past month or so and now I'm moving on to Planescape Torment and other PC games. Nothing souls-related, tho.
What about you?
Distro hopping. I have installed 4 distros in the last 24 hours. I am going insane but I cannot stop. I am typing this as a new OS is being downloaded.
This is pretty much how I feel while playing souls games. Beating my head against a wall, trying new things and failing each time. Eventually, I will find my dream distro.
I’m doing this as we speak! I just finished refreshing myself on Mint (which was a disaster), openSUSE, and CachyOS. PikaOS is currently installing. Something tells me I’m going back to Fedora once I’m done, but distro hopping is a lot of fun.
I hate it because I end up back at Mint. This time I have settled on CachyOS. I am going to give it time to fuck up.
Tried loads of them, liked a few, disliked a lot.
Manjaro... never again.
Probably the best I have tried so far:
I installed arch recently, like it. Soent some time on hyprland, but ended up with gnome. Absolutely satisfied
I have been on Mint for so long. I am bored of it. I went to CachyOS, liked it but bailed for some reason. Since yesterday, I have tried Debian, PopOS, Garuda and now I am going back to CachyOS.
Is there a way to run signal on CachyOS or Arch in general?
Bazzite steam version does not support my hardware, so I skipped it. I have yet to try Nobara.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/signal-desktop/
Hrm... I think I have Signal installed.
Maybe straight from AUR?
I think I used something else to install it but I cannot recall.
Saw mention it is an extra repo and can be installed through pacman that way.
Isn’t AUR risky, especially for something like Signal?
Someone said it is official, but another person warned that AUR is a community thing so not official.
I don't know enough about it honestly.
I can only see Debian distro installation instructions on Signal's site.
It is not official but it is from someone who you can trust. Well, depends on what you mean by trust.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/signal-desktop/
how do you evaluate distros?
Get a good thumb drive, install Ventoy on it, then load it up with different linux distros.
Ventoy is a tool that makes bootable thumb drives that support as many different images/isos as you can fit on the drive. When you boot to a Ventoy thumb drive, you’ll get a GUI that you lets you select which image you want to boot from.
This makes it simple to quickly test or install a bunch of different distros. Better yet, any distro with “live image” support can be run right off the thumb drive without needing to install it first.
Nah, i was asking by what rules the topic starter estimate and compare different distros. I'm fine with my Arch and don't want to change it
Responsiveness. This is relevant to me because I have older hardware. PopOS was a hard no for me because even its installer was laggy on my system. Once installed, it was okay but worse than others.
App compatibility. I know that all distros can run anything but the ease of it is different. For example, Lutris did not open successfully in Debian but it opened easily with all others.
Flatpak support. Again, all distros are compatible but for some reason Debian gives error while downloading Cisco packages. I have never seen it with anything else.
App Store. It is a good idea if there is ability to browse system as well as flatpak packages in a store. This is not an absolute necessity but nice to have.
Desktop environment. This is probably the most subjective and irrational criteria. Some distros just click, like Mint Cinnamon. And some others just don’t, like Gnome. I can install any DE on any distro but I prefer the out of the box versions.
Popularity. This is very counter intuitive since distro choice is personal but I am not a techie who can verify code on my own. So it is best if an existing community does it for me.