Test driving Discover on KDE Plasma,

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brent what is moss

brent

[deleted] I see that asked at the Serpent forum alot...I think its like Brawndo or something

murbert

[deleted] Moss is the SerpentOS package manager

https://serpentos.com/#moss-blazing-fast-package-management

BuzzPCSOS

Installed Discover on this week's update. Very impressed, was very appreciative of flatpak integration, and then this morning Discover determined that my BIOS was outdated and sorted that out for me too. Brilliant.
Everything without a hitch. Looking forward to this being the default Software Centre.
A big thank you to all team members who have toiled behind the scenes to make this work so well, your work is as always appreciated.

brent

BuzzPCSOS and then this morning Discover determined that my BIOS was outdated and sorted that out for me too.

tell me more about the bios part, that's very interesting. going to give a whirl in Budgie next week

BuzzPCSOS

brent I run a Dell laptop which still gets BIOS updates. Previously I have made a point of updating manually with the files downloaded from Dell support website. I have also contemplated usingfwupd but never got around to seeing it work on my laptop.
Discover identified a firmware update for the laptop, installed and restarted my machine without a glitch.
My BIOS is now on the latest revision and I can forget another monthly task that I needed to remember to carry out in order to keep my laptop up-to-date.

brent

BuzzPCSOS yep I flashed mine once way back and forgot about. great feature. Flatpak integration as well. I like how it looks (it looks like a Gnome app to me). Thanks for indulging me, buzz.
I'm going to look at rundeps and rev deps for Baloo and it's not there I will try for a few days. Appreciate it.

WetGeek

BuzzPCSOS Discover identified a firmware update for the laptop, installed and restarted my machine without a glitch.

Thanks for mentioning that. It's been too long since I've updated my DELL firmware, so I installed Discover. It updated all kinds of firmware, and told me that my UEFU needed attention, too. Then it took care of everything and rebooted. Pretty amazing!

brent

Dependencies        : kf6-ki18n glib2 appstream-qt6 glibc kf6-kcrash kf6-kconfig qt6-base
                      kf6-kidletime qt6-declarative kf6-kservice packagekit-qt-qt6
                      kf6-kwidgetsaddons flatpak kf6-kcmutils qt6-webview kf6-kcoreaddons kf6-kio
                      kf6-kdbusaddons kf6-kiconthemes kf6-knewstuff fwupd kf6-knotifications
                      discount kf6-attica libstdc++ kf6-kstatusnotifieritem kf6-kwindowsystem
                      kf6-kjobwidgets kf6-kirigami kf6-kitemmodels kirigami-addons

fwupd and flatpak baked in. no sign of Baloo. righteous. The announcement may have blew by me--will Discover be the official Solus SC replacement? Or just a 'user choice' kind of thing?

Harvey

brent

gnome-software and discover are the replacements for solus-sc

It probably makes more sense for gnome-software to be the default on Gnome, Budgie, Mate and XFCE with discover for Plasma.

brent

Harvey it pulled fwupd in but I don't see where it activates. I like the "verified" tags for the Flatpaks. My gnome-software has no search function so I hate it for that and adds a layer of uselessness. But I haven't seen search function.
It's what Fedora uses, or similar, with a marquee look with it's featured star apps but the categories are oh-so-vague vs. software center's superior categorization. Other users reviews mean nothing to me, and worst of all I see no changelog...
...understand it's been 5 minutes so all grumbling subject to change 🙂

Harvey

brent it pulled fwupd in but I don't see where it activates.

What?

has no search function

Top left of gnome-software window there is a search button.

Axios

brent Just type what your looking for in search like themes and it finds them they are still their.
Sometimes when something is made simpler its hard to grasp right away.
I am old school my brain does not like to transition..lol
But I understand what you are saying.

Axios

Harvey I think he is talking about this And how to use it in gnome-software
I have never used it myself so know nothing about it.

Harvey

I have no idea about how to use it in gnome-software but I assume it is like discover.

If there are updates for your firmware they will appear along with regular system updates, if not you will see nothing.

LVFS is enabled by default and I do not recommend people enable the optional testing repo listed in that screenshot, firmware is not something you want to be a guinea pig for there is a chance of bricking your hardware any time you mess with firmware.

Note that not all firmware is supported by fwupd/LVFS. For example it does not handle UEFI updates for my custom built PC with an Asrock motherboard but does for my logitech wireless keyboard dongle.

Devices supported by fwupd are listed here: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/

WetGeek

Harvey it does not handle UEFI updates for my custom built PC with an Asrock motherboard but does for my logitech wireless keyboard dongle

It did for my one of my DELL Latitude laptops, too. Like I said, amazing.

brent

Axios @Harvey
I woulda found it eventually I was 5 minutes in when I typed like a madman. Upper left yes!

Axios am old school my brain does not like to transition..lol

yep! It will grow on me.

still miss the changelog---getting used to it! More bells and whistles and pretty stuff but better info at Solus-SC.
Don't get me wrong I like bells and whistles but I like better info better than bells. Say that 8 times..

Axios

brent Ya I spend time in the change logs to Its kind like the weekly updates
Kinda keeps you alert if you have problems you can go looking but I dont know how many people do that
we may be the last few that do..lol

brent

Axios if it works out the way the devs want to (according to jbrichie above), cosmic might be the budgie default and I haven't even chased that link.

Axios a I spend time in the change logs ... but I dont know how many people do that
we may be the last few that do..lol

yeah I hate seeing stuff dumbed down as time marches on. I hope whatever the choice, that solus can go the extra mile and write changelog into the program...or even easier, for each package a web link for it's latest activity for every app (the usual date, time, patches, updated, etc etc).
I'm impressed with the firmware capabilities in the gnome-software.
In the end, thought I didn't use Solus-Sc as anything more than a library. But it was a damn good library. I hope Solus preserves that....
....that said most of my package manager moves are made in the CLI and I hope they don't take that away or Linux will resemble WIN then what's the point. long day--cheers

joebonrichie

I'm personally looking at https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-store for XFCE and Budgie editions in the future. However, it's not ready yet.

Reasons:

it's fast as f
Hopefully the theming can be integrated into XFCE/Budgie better than the forced libadwaita theming from G-S.

JTCPingas

joebonrichie I admit I haven't been following cosmic as much as I should, but I love the idea of the cosmic store being used for budgie, mate, and xfce.