Update GUI V.S. terminal command

uaos

At first I a voided Solus OS, but I finally installed it and keep patient in using Solus OS. I am mostly an Ubuntu base user who likes Linux Mint Cinnamon and Elementary OS and have them as a main OS on some other PC's. Updating them with the GUI is easy and problem free. With my Solus OS as I have been using for about six . months noticed that with smaller updates the GUI is fine. Like with the Required Update box, every thing is easy and simple. On the other hand with the Other Update box a lot of the time it is slow and has hung up or crashed. A couple of times I could exit out of the application and restart to find it just continuing and finish, same with the Security Update box but not as frequent. One time a complete system reboot seemed to do the trick but I myself am skeptical, but that is what it seemed to me.

Now using just only the terminal no problem at any level! It just works. 😁

Please, can we get some improvement with the GUI application?

WetGeek

uaos Now using just only the terminal no problem at any level! It just works.

In my experience, the terminal program eopkg hangs up part-way through an update about half the times I use it, and I'm sure the developers would like to find a solution. However, eopkg has a remarkable ability to recover from such an episode. I just use Ctrl+C to quit the application, and the Up key to repeat the eopkg command. It gracefully advances to the place where it stopped, and then continues to completion. I've never needed to restart it more than once.

In most cases, I agree with you and much prefer a good GUI dialog to configure settings, etc. But when it comes to a stalled update, a few quick keypresses at the terminal beats what it takes for a GUI application to recover.

synth-ruiner

uaos as I understand it, the software centre is a high priority for the Solus devs but there's a lot of background work they have to do before an update is possible 😀

synth-ruiner

WetGeek I've installed Solus on probably 4 or 5 different computers and the software centre would always hang occasionally, but I never had a problem with eopkg until I installed Solus on my home desktop this week- I have the same freezing problem you describe. Weird. Like you say, I can live with halting the command and trying again, but it's a shame...

brent

WetGeek
terminal: 100% of all my eopkg functions
SC: more of a reading library for me

WetGeek

brent SC: more of a reading library for me

For me, too, especially if I want to search a category of packages (e.g., "browsers" or "editors") and compare the available results. The software center definitely has its uses, but for a straightforward upgrade, nothing else compares with eopkg at a terminal.

I suspect that the software center does most of its work by issuing eopkg commands in the background -- at least, that's how I would have designed it. So I just cut out the middleman most of the time. 😀

bolofar

Knowing that this does not help, I still want to state: I'm using Solus for some time (started with Solus 3.9) on two notebooks and, until today, never really experienced problems during (and more important after!) updates. Neither using the GUI nor eopkg. I cannot say so for other Linux distributions, e.g. SuSE, Ubuntu or Manjaro.

Though, there is one thing I really dislike about the software center: In the overview it does not show if an application is installed or not. You always need to got to the detailed view and then back.
(Or is it just that I am not using the right configuration options?)

KingLucius

To be honest, solus software center needs a complete rewrite with a vision and UX study in advance.

adurante

KingLucius the SC is getting a complete rewrite. It's one of the main items the devs want to accomplish as part of budgie 11

DataDrake

KingLucius The UX is fine. It's mostly eopkg causing problems and a few buttons not being available up a level. We sorted most of this when Ikey started his rewrite and we will be borrowing parts of that for ours.

DataDrake

adurante SC has nothing to do with Budgie 11. It's used on all editions of Solus. But it is getting a rewrite.