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.

                Staudey we will have to postpone the sync a bit more.

                Huh? What did I use to update five computers this morning? There's more to come for this sync?

                    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.

                            brent sudo eopkg up gave me nothing today or the last week. maybe you had a whirlwind of k-packages?

                            I also use Solus KDE, and no updates this week for me either. Either WetGeek's computers had pending updates, or he's the favourite of the Solus team! 😆

                                Staudey No bothers. I hope your fully recovered. The ol 'rona is no fun.

                                  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?

                                            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.)
                                            ...
                                            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.

                                                  I didn't realise the team was so small for this distro. Keep up the good work it's amazing and works perfectly on my low powered Lenovo 120s Laptop. The Budgie edition is my fav by far 😄 .

                                                  WetGeek Agree completely. I for one appreciate the stability this process brings. I can't count the number of times that a bad update that got other "big name" distros, we completely avoided due to the team's diligence. This is VERY much appreciated.

                                                    Update: After first tentatively moving the sync date to "later" 🙂 it's now planned to do the big sync on Friday, 14th of October (or Saturday, depending on your timezone and the particulars of the sync).

                                                      Good work Stu, and good luck.. 😀

                                                      Staudey it's now planned to do the big sync on Friday, 14th of October (or Saturday, depending on your timezone and the particulars of the sync)

                                                      Good to read, so this weekend is under the sign of happyness
                                                      Fridat early or late ? what timezone ?