128 Budgie packages, you rascals. solus-hardware-config? where have you been? more intel and firmware and microcode updates, yay! A veritable PERL-a-rama tonight. Rebooted, no problem at all.
thanks all--

Everything wen great, no hiccups what so ever. 🎉

Just when all hope was basically lost for my Bluetooth ever working....

EbonJaeger ReillyBrogan updated our kernels to 6.4.9 and 5.15.125 while enabling many more network, Bluetooth, and sound drivers. If you’ve had trouble with uncooperative Wi-Fi or Bluetooth devices, it might be a good time to test them again.

My last words on my post - Bluetooth Not Working (May 21, 2022):

@xjdwc Still no success. Thanks for all your suggestions. Hopefully a future update magically fixes it.

*Updates laptop ...
*Reboots ...
*....

Bluetooth Working!!
This is the update that has finally fixed my Bluetooth issue!

Thanks Team 🙂

      Have to report some strange behavior on Plasma. Apparently, at least on my machine, sddm can't start a plasma session, either Wayland or X11. Running manually dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland from tty1 instead works.

      xjdwc
      Ahhhhhhhhhhh Cooool
      I know couple other users that will be on cloud nine if there bluetooth works
      after trying to get it to work.

      I just wanted comment on how the creation of this thread really helps people out and gives them
      some kind of outlook about things and a sense of moving foward.
      And thank the dev for creating it (It Appears to be a big Plus)

          Axios I just wanted comment on how the creation of this thread really helps people out and gives them
          some kind of outlook about things and a sense of moving foward.
          And thank the dev for creating it (It Appears to be a big Plus)

          I agree completely.

            Using Solus and following this forum make using Solus feel personal and like being part of something, not like most of the other distros. I like it 🙂

            We did a quick hotfix to fix the reported issue with QT applications (Virtualbox, VLC, qBittorrent etc) not appearing for 25 after launching them on Budgie and GNOME desktops.

            If you had this issue please update again and reboot your computer.

              I have issues with evince and leafpad.
              The evince issue I observed already before this weeks sync, and it is persistent. With some pdf documents, evince starts right away, but then needs up to 10 seconds to load the document, while other pdf documents load right away.

              Leafpad needs up to 30 seconds to start.

                Sebastian I don't use leafpad but I can't reproduce Evince sluggishness. Just opened up a dozen pdfs from a few KB to 11MB and all pretty snappy....albeit all from the same folder. Indexing? (spitballing)

                    brent As of the evince issue, this might simply be a pdf file integrity issue. I have several pdf files from different sources that lead to evince needing at least 10 seconds to load them. Some of them I checked for integrity here.

                    With the following result:
                    Compliance pdfa-1a
                    Result Document does not conform to PDF/A.
                    Details
                    Validating file "Anlage-0.pdf" for conformance level pdfa-1a
                    The schema description for namespace 'pdfx:' (http://ns.adobe.com/pdfx/1.3/) is missing.
                    The key StructTreeRoot is required but missing.
                    The document does not conform to the requested standard.
                    The document's meta data is either missing or inconsistent or corrupt.
                    The document doesn't provide appropriate logical structure information.
                    The document does not conform to the PDF/A-1a standard.

                    So, evince issue might therefore only affect currupted PDF's.
                    Zathura by the way opens theses files without a problem.

                        @Sebastian thanks for sharing all that. no way would I use that site though. they get your documents and ip address, document metadata, and probably more; that's TMI for me personally.
                        the valuable output sorta kinda reminded me of using adobe pitstop, in the day.
                        I wonder if there is a standalone pdf foss app that measures pdf integrity? another way to check is to print the pdf to postscript but you'd still need preflight tools to get that data (maybe scribus?) but convoluted compared to just doing it now. all the other services they provide at that website I can do via gimp, office suite,scribus, pdfunite..

                        ps--this is the second time I've seen zathura mentioned in a week. maybe will try it. edit/format

                          Lol! I was thinking "Also sprach Zarathustra" was becoming more popular:

                          brent I wonder if there is a standalone pdf foss app that measures pdf integrity?

                          @Sebastian qpdfin terminal. qpdf --check /home/documents/your.pdf
                          heckuva an output. --check was just one of many arguments.
                          just passing it on. I/we are off topic enough as it is🙂.