im fine with that. About to install solus after i get my phone working again
damn that sucks, maybe 28 isnât just quite ready yet, on the bright side youâd get to try Budgie without having to compile it for Fedora XD
I had to go to bed for a couple of hours like a scrub because I have to up all day like i normal person.
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Solus is being a pain unto itself. some things about the install i REALLY dont like
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that sucks, does the install do any weird stuff like?
It installs Solus.
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kek was more alluding to what stuff that really wasnât liked about it XD
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Yes?
eopkg (Package Manager) needs some work. Like for example the broadcom driver package didnt run depmod -a so i tore my hair out over that.
The installer is a whole issue upon itself. The advanced driver configuration is super basic. Can only select /, /home, swap for mount locations with the installer and it has to be on the SAME drive. Also if you do a EFI install then it forces you to install a bootloader but it does not really give you choice of where said bootloader gets installed too. The installer forced me to install it to /dev/sda1 which is my OSX efi partition and it wouldnt let me use /dev/sda6 which is my linux EFI partition. Tore my hair out over that one too and said fuck and made a backup of /dev/sda1 and went full steam ahead. Turns out that even if you do a EFI install on solus that will install it in BIOS mode so the whole EFI issue was a waste of time and didnt affect anything.
There is also the issue of them not using grub but i have NO idea what they use 
so that was fun in its own right with issues ill get into later.
There is a few model specific issues with my device that solus is unhappy about. Solus has intel_iommu set to on by default but that for some reason prevent my SSD from working so i spent about 2 hours digging around on the internet to find out how to deal with that because i would not have guessed that IOMMU would cause my SSD to stop functioning in a million years.
One thing i do like about solus atm is the INSANE boot times. The SSD in my laptop can get about 1GB/s reads and 600MB/s writes and man does solus boot fast. from boot menu to login manager is no more than 6 seconds MAX. the best ive gotten on this laptop is about 10 seconds on a antergoes install.
Another nice thing i can say about solus is that its out of the box experince is really nice. It looks good and runs fairly lightweight. with just the DE open it probably idles at around 500MB of ram usage. 
which is pretty good since its based of gnome. If only firefox could be like that again 
TL;DR solus has been a HUGE pain with many issues but has a few positive points in its favor. Do those positive points make up for the pain in the ass its been? Too early too tell.
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What SSD is that? O.o
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the one that comes in my macbook air 
. is apple brand.
is only 128GB but i can only use about 80GB of that since i still need mac osx installed on here
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Wow thatâs quite the ordeal. Wouldnât have expected solus to have that many issues during the install, all of this especially the whole partitioning situation is off putting to me. The upsides of Solus after the install sound really nice and want to try it sometime, could be a decent alterniatve to Fedora on my laptop but I think I might give Solus some more time to mature before I do.
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Bummer.
Soldered?
you might have better luck. What i do with linux is by no means standard. Is worth throwing onto a spare drive and giving a whirl
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no idea. Cant even take the laptop apart without paying $25 for a special screwdriver
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Fuck Apple.
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I might check it out then, want something other than Fedora on my laptop to mess around and it does sound interesting to spite some of those issues.
is fun to try out. Whether or not im sticking to this is up to fate
Amazonâs still retarding the packaging for softcover books. Scuffed corners and edges, smudge on the coverâŚ
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Yep Solus does some really interesting stuff and will be good to mess around with it and see how it does, hoping it can eek some more performance out of my aging laptop. Will try it out when I get home but depends on how tired I am by then.
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No more Fedora then?