Distro hopping again

so just a funny little story of what happened earlier with my new arch toy, came home ,switched on pc and noticed my 2nd monitor is all blueish colour...
i thought oh no it's starting already with new distro :hot_face:
started searching the webs for cures , 1 of them said make sure the cable is securely plugged in , brushed it off cause why would my cable all of a sudden be loose right ?
then realised our maid were cleaning around here and moved laptop around . so i check and low and behold the cable was halfway out , pushed it in and monitor solved :grin:
i was kinda angry though that i had to search for like half hour for possible solutions on a new distro that unfimilair .
but ya , moral of story , sometimes a simple thing like a loose cable will make one frantic lol

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You mean install Flatpak and add the Flathub Repo for it or a Flatpak-Version of a Program?

I hope you don't mean the Arch forum, cause good luck getting past their ridiculous sign up filter, they only want super smart people and programmers there. I tried to sign up there once to ask a question, I never could get past their ridiculous sign up verification system. Most people use the same verification type, not the Arch boys, no, they have to make it impossible. You've been warned.

PS: So it was a cable half way out all along ha? Yep, basic IT troubleshooting, have you tried turning off and on again? Then after that, have you tried unplugging and re-plugging? HEHE. Good stuff, glad your monitor is ok.


No the endeavour forum.
Signed up already it was straightforward.
Their forum interface looks exactly like this one.

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Discourse baby woohoo! Excellent news, I am happy for you, woot woot. :raised_hands:


Yeh my wifi suddenly stopped working last week. What was more odd, it wasn't like I lost connection - it was like my computer didn't realize it had hardware to see connections!

Luckily I was the culprit, not the maid, or I never would have guessed the solution because I would have thought the same thing "Yeh why would anything be loose for no reason?" As it was I thought "Huh. It's funny that I plugged in a USB in the back, where the port happens to be right by those antenna things, and 10 minutes later when I need to open a browser, I notice I have no wifi..."

So yeh when I got this pc one of the antenna things always flopped around loosely and I don't know much about computers so I thought "That's the floppy antenna" but it turns out when I investigated my disappearing wifi that the metal post thingy it screws into was really loose and I had to open the side of the pc and tighten it to get my wifi back, and oddly enough that also corrected its floppiness.

In your case though I entirely blame Endeavor OS for disrupting your maids routine and causing them to loosen wires. This never would have happened on Zorin OS!

I wish I had a maid...

I fix puter. You clean.

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You should give Q4OS 32-bit Trinity DE a run. No live environment, just a straight install. It's what KDE looked like before Plasma.

I also have to give Solus a big nod. I have been using it on a spare laptop about 3 weeks now and I am impressed. I usually install several technical programs. I use some IDEs for programming microprocessors and FreeCad and Cura for 3D printing work. With several distros I have tried, both Cura and FreeCad gave me problems getting them to install and work properly. Not only did they install with no hiccups but the lastest versions of both were in the Solus repo.

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Maybe naive of me but I thought 32 bit couldn't run anymore - like no apps would work on it??

There'll be a lot of apps that won't, but many apps are still compiled with legacy support. It gets less common every year, though.

That might be why. I installed KDE version and it said backend for Flatpak was missing but I never thought of adding the repo. But the mouse becoming almost unusable after an hour was enough to say no.

I'm struggling to find some information as to why eopkg exists or what it brings to the table over other alternatives.

This is what's keeping me from trying Solus. Not because it's going to be difficult to learn a few new commands — as far as I can tell, they seem to be pretty much the same as apt — but because it's not as popular and it might make translating things to other distributions a bit more difficult.

From the documentation, it looks like this will eventually be replaced with something else anyway:

Ikey and friends over at Serpent OS are actively building a new package manager moss that we are excited about. And they're building it with Solus in mind as an eventual user.

eopkg is dead, long live eopkg | Solus Help Center

Solus isn't based on anything. It is an own System. So, they have made there own Package Manager. But in the Future this should be changed because then they want base the System on Serpent OS.

I did not know that they were planning on eventually going downstream from Serpent OS... Maybe I'll just wait it out until this happens. Then, I won't have to learn two separate things for nothing :smiley:

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Yes, they had in the Past Problems. And that belongs to there new Long-Time Strategy if You want so. I'm not sure about this. I mean, a small Distro is based on another small Distro ... but we will see how it will work and what happens.

What was interesting watching the installer slowly go by is it installs ... qtWayland!

Post install (Virtual Machine) I installed Firefox, and it installed version 135 - my current Q4OS Plasma desktop is only at 134!

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Here is a copy of what they posted on their blog about the new software packaging.

Try a new Software Center

We encourage you to try one of the new Software Centers as a replacement for solus-sc (Solus Software Center). A new software center gets you out-of-the-box support for Flatpaks, and better app descriptions through Appstream metadata support.

Our contributors and staff have been hard at work adding and fixing the metainfo.xml files used for Appstream support. Our goal is for every packaged GUI application to have a working metainfo.xml file, so that the software centers can show users all kinds of information about an app before they decide to install it.

Curious Budgie, GNOME and Xfce users can install gnome-software, while Plasma users should install discover.

I am using Plasma so I installed Discover as they suggested and it seems to work fine. As I posted before the packages I have gotten there seem to be the latest and yet completely stable.

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But that is the Software Center. We talked about the Package Manager - I mean, when You install Packages with the Terminal.