u/WilliamBarnhill

I'm new to the game, planning on getting my all-arounder Cutlass Black kitted out first, and I'm using that well for hauling. Then I'll purchase a more dedicated ship for the first game loop I really want to dive into. I'm trying to decide whether that will be a Prospector for mining, or a Drake Vulture for Salvaging. I realize I could rent one of the ships, but I don't think I can customize it, and I really like doing that. I also plan on doing whichever of the game loops I don't pick first later, so it won't be a wasted ship.

Which do you find the most solo fun, Salvaging or Mining?

We all have different game loops we like to play, and game loops we avoid. I've been playing a very short while. I like hauling, and want to get into mining and mercenary. I don't like the collect missions (e.g., Kill the Maroks), and I've no interest in piracy game play.

I see people steamed about bugs, but so far I haven't encountered many at all. I am wondering if certain game loops have more of the bugs than others. Have any of you ever collected a rough analysis of the number of bugs broken out by game play loop?

I just finished killing Marok to 100%. Quest did not autocomplete, and there was no submit button. I waited 10m to see if server tick fixed it, and it did not. Bummed I am out 62k and rep, was only my second contract in the game. I reported it, found there was a dupe from 18 hrs ago.

Posting this so people know.

A Poll (vote in comments): which of the following possibilities do you think most likely?

A. New news at GamesComm in August 2026

B. New news at TheGameAwards in December 2026

C. No new news before 2027

My hopium thought is A with a 2027 release date announced, but I suspect it won't be until B that we get more details.

What do you think?

A post on r/Redox asked if Redox OS was usable as your daily driver. I know that YMMV, and that the answers there focused on browser support, but what are native apps/types of apps you'd list as must haves before you'd consider using Redox OS as your daily driver?

I'll start the list with mine:

• Helix
• Git
• Bash
• Core-Utils
• Firefox, Brave, or Librewolf
• Pandoc
• Zola
• Jango
• Librera PDF reader (or some other option)
• Ripgrep
• Eza
• Curl or Xh

What are yours?

I love Rust, and like Pop OS. Never complained, updated to 24.04 with forced Cosmic and it worked other than some minor things. Then I updated the other day, two days before a major deadline.

Some context. I am not a hobbyist Linux user. I use it for business, I have backups, so I didn't panic. However, Pop OS store froze at 51% of a kernel update. I waited a long while, then rebooted. It booted into emergency mode. I had 4 hours total of downtime getting my system back to normal. 4 hours. Also, once I had originally upgraded to Cosmic my system would sound like a jet engine randomly, as various cosmic things ate up 90+% of CPU continually.

Folks, if you are shipping product don't ship only betaware. Cosmic team, this means you. I'm not upgrading again until either Cosmic is stable, or a version of Pop OS ships where Cosmic is opt-in and a standard DE is default.

Long time Pop OS evangelist, now disillusioned.

In the style of a Miss Manners letter, since this is an etiquette question.

Dear Miss FOSS,

I love an Open Source project that seems to have stagnated recently. It's well designed, and I use it daily. Let's call it Hank. It has not had a new release in a year, has over a thousand issues and over 500 waiting PRs. I am considering forking, so that I can add the features to it that I want. Part of those features though is making use of some of those PRs.

My question to you is, if I fork Hank, is it a no-no to bring those PRs along, and should I contact each PR submitter individually to ask their permission?

Thank you for your help,

Stymied in Software Limbo