Solus Updates for Week 5, 2025

pomon

Mick
I suggest opening a new thread, as many people here may not notice it. Please include the following in the new thread:
Do you even have internet ping google.com -s1000 -c5.
What graphics card driver inxi -G.
Are there any nvidia packages installed eopkg li | grep nvidia.

orion99

All work fine after the updates (Solus Gnome).

I don't understand the advantage of gnome sofware vs. Solus' software center, but never mind.

Sebastian

orion99 I don't understand the advantage of gnome sofware vs. Solus' software center, but never mind.

Solus Software-Center still depends on python2. Python2 is basically dead since january 2020. Solus team has been working hard the past years to get rid of python2 on Solus. Part of this enterprise is to deprecate the Solus Software-Center, since Solus has currently not the man-power nor the interest to port Solus Software-Center to python3.
Thats why it was decided to offer Discover and GNOME Software as alternative Software Centers.
This also means one less maintenance burden for Solus.
So, don't fall in love too much with Solus Software-Center. It will disappear in (near?) future.

brent

Sebastian I think many Solus users know that discover and gnome-software are really inferior, mediocre programs when compared to the Solus-SC.
Doubling the heartbreak, speaking personally, is that Solus is known for not accepting mediocrity in any form, that's what using gnome-softwareto me: a mediocre package manager experience, again, compared to Solus SC.

But thanks for reminding us that Solus' hand was forced with the gigantic python2 hiccup. We have to roll with it.
Solus-SC is disappearing, Budgie gets Wayland-ized any day now, moss is coming, exciting times---I ain't goin' nowhere 🙂 🍿 . [edit/typo]

Staudey

banger Well, it seems that for whatever reason you had BOTH nvidia-glx-driver and nvidia-developer-driver installed previously, which should never happen without explicitly telling eopkg to ignore the conflict. Then when it upgraded the nvidia-developer-driver it checked for conflicts and found that it conflicted with nvidia-glx-driver, thus removing it (I think there should've been a prompt confirming that, but not sure [especially unsure what would get shown in the Software Center])
That transaction had me confused for a second, but it seems like things are working as intended. The remaining question is of course why both driver packages were installed on your system.

edit: This might also explain your previous FreeCAD issues, if this is the same system.

banger

Staudey

I tried the developer driver when Freecad didnt work with the current driver. Little did I know Wayland isnt supported yet so it is possible I didnt purge the developer driver when re-installing the current driver.

That would explain it - user error. There werent any prompts to replace. I always upgrade in CLI not SC.

Freecad works in X11 and appimage which I believe has x11 driver but not wayland.

Harvey

Cherry-picked discord 0.0.84

Harvey

Cherry-picked firefox 135.0

Harvey

cherry-picked vivaldi-stable 7.1.3570.47

Harvey

cherry-picked thunderbird 128.7.0

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