Applications launching speed is very very slow and i have an NVME M2 SSD Disk

chrisfromgreece

1) Applications launching speed (hard disk speed?) is very very slow and i have an NVME M2 SSD Disk
which should be very very fast. What is the problem ?

2) How can i become a Tester for unstable ?
3) Is it possible to have a community repository where we can build software that we need ? Solus os could be better with more packages available so users won't go to snap/flatpak to install software
4) It would be cool if Solus OS had a ricing window manager Spin like for example i3-gaps ,Awesome,bspwm !
5) It would be cool if Solus OS installer could support other filesystems like for example XFS , BTRFS,ZFS
--I like solus os but i can't understand why application launching speed is so slow (very slow) its like i've installed solus on a slow mechanical hard disk drive ! I'm not happy with that it's not a rant.

Justin

chrisfromgreece

1) Some hardware info might help people diagnose what's happening
2) It's dangerous but your best bet is to jump into #Solus-Dev on Freenode to discuss and hang around there as unstable updates will often break your system if you update at the wrong time
3) Flatpak/Snap are there for that reason, to add the ability to install software that isn't in the repository
4) Solus' i3 is i3-gaps I believe.
5) For what reason do you desire other filesystems?

synth-ruiner

chrisfromgreece i3-gaps is available in the repos as i3 (it's an alias)

re: the slow applications, you'll have to give more info as to which applications, and the specs of your computer. we can't read minds.

chrisfromgreece

Justin Solus' i3 ?? there is an i3 solus distribution ?

synth-ruiner

chrisfromgreece you just have to install any version of Solus, install i3, log out, select i3 as your window manager, and log in again.

Justin

chrisfromgreece No ISO for installation but i3 is in the repository.

chrisfromgreece

synth-ruiner i can do that

chrisfromgreece

I made a reinstallation , things seems to be better now. I would like to see solus os to have support for btrfs,xfs,jfs
Also when Solus OS will have a software center that can install multiple packages ???? I told that i can create a utility to do that job but they say to me that it they will make this very soon .

synth-ruiner

chrisfromgreece you can install multiple packages at once from the command line, e.g. sudo eopkg install i3 rofi ranger

chrisfromgreece

Updating with software center on a freshly installed system has problems, it freezes !

synth-ruiner

chrisfromgreece that's a known bug. when you start it again it'll actually resume instead of downloading everything again, though. it's easier to update from the command line and keep an eye on it

chrisfromgreece

After the reinstallation i have n oproblems

chrisfromgreece

synth-ruiner the first time i had this problem i updated from the command line and got some error messages ,many errors

Justin

chrisfromgreece Need to know what errors if we are to help.

chrisfromgreece

Justin I will try to replicate it , i'm gonna do a new installation (budgie) and update through terminal

chrisfromgreece

Justin I don't have any more this problem. Look another problem eopkg has when you installing many packages sometimes the process stops:

krita-4.2.8.2-55-1-x86_64.eopkg (58.2 MB) 3% 523.27 KB/s [00:01:50]Program terminated.
Could not fetch destination file "https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/shannon/k/krita/krita-4.2.8.2-55-1-x86_64.eopkg": [Errno 12] Timeout on https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/shannon/k/krita/krita-4.2.8.2-55-1-x86_64.eopkg: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 300 seconds')

Justin

chrisfromgreece It's a known issue, just keep retrying and you'll eventually get all packages.

chrisfromgreece

Justin Does Zoom.us snap application works ?

brent

chrisfromgreece I don't know. I had problems with retrieving the snap zoom, so impatiently I just went to the zoom website, chose 'other operating system', and unpacked. It ran right out of the box, as they say. I like it. It's a standalone wrapper that doesn't require a browser. Functions fine.

Justin

chrisfromgreece Not sure but I'd avoid Zoom as it's full of security issues if you've been reading the news.

johano

chrisfromgreece Yes snap works fine here too.

chrisfromgreece

Justin You don't have a choice if you want to watch something , i'm not the one that decides. I installed snap and runs like a charm !