Solus 4.6 Convergence Released

alfisya

Mark12870 It is upstream decision to make it this way. AFAIK, this is because of flatpak first and immutable priority they have that make gnome software require you to restart before applying updates. Flatpak updates does not require restart.

While this is understandably annoying, there is also a benefit. It avoid of the wonkiness (that might happen) when there is DE updates. You can also just use discover if you hate it too much😆.

We might get a third software center alternative, if its development matured. cough cosmic cough

Axios

alfisya Oh I forgot about cosmic

Mark12870

alfisya Yeah, I will probably try Discover. Even so it sounds a bit weird with Gnome desktop. 😅

unclemez

Axios to me, Cosmic should replace XFCE but that's my feeling, I mean XFCE we know about and both Plasma and Budgie are there already plus the widely known Gnome, Cosmic would be a very good choice as it is actively developed and we still need to discover it more and more and tagging it beta or alpha on Solus ain't a bad move, look XFCE is cool but ... doesn't reflect anything of a modern Linux Desktop, while all other DE are, but, that's my view and consideration, not forcing anything here

kwanbis

unclemez After using for years Cinnamong, Budgie, and Mate, I tested XFCE and I think is the best. Simple, it works like Windows (where most users come from), please do not replace XFCE.

unclemez

Mark12870 using gnome software center since yesterday on Solus and it all doing well, at least for searching and installing apps, now i'd like to see how it is going to do with updates

entobill

EbonJaeger So I have Solus 4.5 xfce beta. I did some few updates just now. Can i assume i'm up to speed? I downloaded the 4.6 update but when trying to install i find that Calamares "replace partition" doesn't really give me that option anymore. It wants to wipe my entire drive, including a large "data" partition where all my stuff resides. And yes, I'm one of those who has multiple linux distros installed. I haven't seen this before? Thanks for any suggestions.

brent

entobill I downloaded the 4.6 update but when trying to install i find that Calamares "replace partition" doesn't really give me that option anymore.

I just did this the other day and another distro lived there too. I made the unallocated space GPT and left it unallocated. I did get the Replace option. but had to Create my 1gb boot and /root partitions in the installer. Calmares sometimes easy, sometimes a thorn in my side.

Harvey

entobill Can i assume i'm up to speed?

yes

unclemez

kwanbis That's cool, but i'd not choose a DE because it behave or remind of windows way to life, but that's me, I love Gnome, Budgie, Plasma and expect to love Cosmic because it is different and more in ad equation with what a modern DE should be, like for real

zmaint

Umm I'm still showing 4.5 and I have no updates available?

JTCPingas

zmaint Please refer to what @Harvey said at the beginning of the thread.

Notice:
Existing installs that update will identify as Solus 4.5 and fresh installs with 4.6 ISO will identify as 4.6. This is due to the whole usr-merge nonsense that prevents us updating baselayout before the epoch repository is in place. You will just have to put up with this for now.

zmaint

JTCPingas Yeah I did not see that. Thank you very much. I was worried, I was one that had that update eat eopkg a while back and thought I was going to have to clean install or something.

Harvey

For the record after next sync thanks to Reilly wizardry it should correctly identify as 4.6 convergence.
https://github.com/getsolus/packages/pull/4086

brent

Harvey I see what they did in that thread. crafty

fozters

After latest upgrade, after starting up computer and after entering luks key I got this kind of message prompt:
"Performing important system maintenance, please wait. This process may take up to 10 minutes. It is safe to turn off your computer if necessary." .... which took 30-60sec in my system.

I assume this is related to some big changes Solus Team has posted, Usr-Merge/Epoch bump? But I don't like to assume anything what my system is doing so I'd like to know if someone can confirm this?

I don't recall seen such prompt ever before in any linux system 🙂?

brent

fozters I don't recall seen such prompt ever before in any linux system

I never saw it either before but I remember smiling and thinking 'what are they doing now'? came up in a thread a few days ago that was usr-merge, good guess.

Harvey

fozters

Yes it was the usr-merge. We had been rolling it out in waves and on sync week 40 (24 days ago) we set the chance of usr-merge occurring on users systems to 100% so after updating and rebooting it would occur.

Since the Usr-Merge began rolling out, we've had no reports of problems relating to it. Therefore, we are confident that we can open the floodgates and allow all users to go through the Usr-Merge process. If you aren't familiar with Usr-Merge, go check out our blog post about it.

Source: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10994-solus-updates-for-week-40-2024

fozters

Harvey
Thanks, I can now remove my tin foil hat I wrapped around my head when sipping my morning coffee!

marcvg

Congratulations! 👍️

Any news to share soon regarding Serpent tooling (boulder, etc)?

Harvey

marcvg

If there was something to share we would share it. If you were expecting Solus to rebase on Serpent soon you are mistaken, the tooling is still under heavy development.

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