I have a question, are we going to get an update today? Or will it be delayed? Please don't feel pressured, just do what it's best for the distro.
PSA: Deferred Sync Next Friday (9/30)
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@WetGeek A quiet comment: I started using Solus in 2017. I read the forum frequently between 2017 and 2020, but did not join the forum (October 2020) until I had a question about the possibility of adding Microsoft Edge to the Third Party repository (Josh said "Nope"). I suspect that this forum has many readers who have never joined. Spec apparently is one of them.
tomscharbach
Thank you.
Plus I just wrote because I understand German and reacted to that german Comment (no sure if all the dislikers understand it).
Like I said, I want Solus to be successful and the Devs to be happy and not under pressure all the time.
And in my opinion (cause that's what it is: an opinion) users (especially new and potential users) should know how the future looks.
Every user is also a potential contributer - never forget that.
Solus is shaped by its users. Hear my story. I've been Microsoft client for quite a long time. I mean I bought half a dozen of Windows licenses, a few of Windows Mobile, and don't get me started how much money I spent on Microsoft products overall. Then Windows as a service happened. And my interests were betrayed, even if I contacted Microsoft support I could never had any influence. Then I found Solus, where any constructive input was considered and often accepted! It grew on me, and I started contributing, it's my home now :-). @Spec You're welcome in the community, as long as you focus on situations and not on people. It is possible to guide Solus where You want it to be, so chose appropriately.
nazar You're welcome in the community, as long as you focus on situations and not on people
^^ this, but you will always have someone occasionally snide you/spite you when you try to help them; it's the nature of the beast (global online forum). shake hands and see eye to eye is always the best resolution like this one.
tomscharbach I started using Solus in 2017. I read the forum frequently between 2017 and 2020, but did not join the forum (October 2020)
you are a man of eternal mystery
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brent you are a man of eternal mystery
Nah. I joined the Solus forum, somewhat reluctantly, because I had a question about Microsoft Edge that wasn't answered in the forum, so I joined to ask the question. I got a direct response from Josh, even if it wasn't the answer I wanted. I posted about the Microsoft Edge Flatpak a few times, and then bit by bit started to get more involved.
I'm not a "forum person". I used Ubuntu 2006 to 2017 and never joined or participated in the Ubuntu forum(s), for example. I joined the Ubuntu Budgie forum because I had a question to ask there, too, and I was an active member of the MEI forum for a couple of years to try to push Microsoft into supporting Edge on Linux. But otherwise, pretty much not.
brent you will always have someone occasionally snide you/spite you when you try to help them; it's the nature of the beast (global online forum)
I wonder if members of the Solus community are mindful of how decent the people who post on this forum are to one another. We see someone come in from time to time and act like a jerk, but I don't think I've seen more than a handful of personal flame wars on this forum over the last couple of years. That is very unusual for Linux forums, except for those that are heavily moderated. We are a good group.
tomscharbach I wonder if members of the Solus community are mindful of how decent the people who post on this forum are to one another.
Agreed. That we are. 
The weekly or longer update cycle is welcome, many thanks.
tomscharbach I wonder if members of the Solus community are mindful of how decent the people who post on this forum are to one another. We see someone come in from time to time and act like a jerk
don't really need to add a word to your eloquent response except for when someone does wander in to smack me or someone else I immediately think one thing: they came from a place where it was normal behavior. That strengthens what you said above regarding this forum. We got it good.
joluveba Due to some last-minute issues and a couple of team members being unable to work for part of the week (in my case I had the 'rona and could barely leave my bed since Sunday) we will have to postpone the sync a bit more. But there's no final date yet. We will post here when a new sync date has been determined.
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brent maybe you had a whirlwind of k-packages?
Could be, I suppose. All the computers here use Plasma for a DE. I realized that last week's sync was to be postponed, according to Beatrice, so I didn't even check for upgrades then. Today I just updated normally, and was surprised to find out just now that apparently there's more to come. It's a pleasant surprise, for sure.
WetGeek You can figure out what installed today by running sudo eopkg history if you are interested.
tomscharbach You can figure out what installed today by running sudo eopkg history if you are interested.
Yet another mystery solved. That's a very interesting eopkg command that I'd never needed or used before. It was able to show me that on 2022-10-08 I'd installed a large number of upgrades, but none for what would have been the previous sync.
joluveba Either WetGeek's computers had pending updates
Indeed. That's the first time I appear to have skipped an update when I normally do them, and afterwards forgot all about it. It must have been a very busy Saturday morning.
WetGeek It must have been a very busy Saturday morning.
If I remember right, you commented in another thread that you crashed your laptop and were having issues with reinstalling your VM's . Maybe you missed an update in the commotion. Who knows?
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tomscharbach Maybe you missed an update in the commotion.
I would have done a complete update after re-installing Plasma, but that was probably just before a sync. I was likely still fussing with the VMs when the next update was released. This reminds me that I wasn't able to get GNOME and MATE installed successfully at the time -- I need to try again now. (Budgie and Plasma were no problem at all.)
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Now that I know about eopkg history, I can see that I did that complete update:
Operation #2: upgrade
Date: 2022-09-21 08:31
I'd forgotten that it was that recently. (I wish I had a memory like yours.) That was a Wednesday, shortly before a sync was released. I know for sure that I was still involved with getting everything on this laptop reinstalled, reconfigured, and trying to rebuild the VMs when the next sync was released.
WetGeek I wasn't able to get GNOME and MATE installed successfully at the time
Today I got that done. I had to use Solus 4.2 .ISO files for both GNOME and MATE, but I got them both installed onto VMs, updated, Vivaldi installed and sync'd, Terminology installed and configured, and symbolic links created to link the NAS shares to my /home folder. Now I'm finally completely recovered from my laptop crash.