Comparison: 'Synaptic' - 'Discover' in Linux

[guigirl]

@npro Ah yes, muon & synaptic ... apps from the Bronze Age.

[npro]

@guigirl

apps from the Bronze Age

Can't really take a position on that, as I strictly use the terminal

[npro]

@npro Btw, according to the internet,

said:

I much prefer muon to synaptic. That's mostly a preference for Qt (and KDE theming) over GTK, but also because muon only asks for privilege and takes the APT lock when it needs it, whereas synaptic always does that when it starts. Annoying when I just want to check some detail, like a version or an installed file. Or using other APT tools. I came to muon after a few years of using synaptic.

Sounds like the better tool from the bronze age to me

[DoctorG]

Shell first: on Debian & Mint & Ubuntu i use aptitude , on Arch pacman to update. Why? Because these OS are my development/testing environment.

[guigirl]

@npro said in Comparison: 'Synaptic' - 'Discover' in Linux:

I strictly use the terminal

You're too harsh, nasty & tough! In contrast, i lovingly, caressingly, luxuriantly use Konsole.

[npro]

@guigirl omg let's not go a-r like the other thread again

[guigirl]

@npro

[paul1149]

@guigirl said in Comparison: 'Synaptic' - 'Discover' in Linux:

Ah yes, muon & synaptic ... apps from the Bronze Age.

I like much about Discover, but Synaptic makes freezing versions easy from the UI.

[DoctorG]

@paul1149 Discover seems more for installing standard user's software, not for system maintenance as hold packages etc.

And Discover is borked, does less often show lists, never ending loading instead.

[guigirl]

@paul1149 I do updates & install packages in Konsole using pacman directly, otherwise paru. For a rolling release distro like Arch, IMO Discover is dangerous, so i disabled its ability to do system updates. I only use it every now & then to check for Plasma widget & theme updates, which seem to have no other readily available method.

To freeze versions, i mostly edit /etc/pacman.conf [but i do not freeze much, coz again in a rolling release that's unwise].

[npro]

@DoctorG said in Comparison: 'Synaptic' - 'Discover' in Linux:

Discover seems more for installing standard user's software, not for system maintenance as hold packages etc.

And Discover is borked, does less often show lists, never ending loading instead.

yes Discover is like GNOME Software etc they are all software app fronts using packagekit to upgrade in the background, from what I've seen and read though it is being constantly worked on and improved to the point where it should work fine for "newish"static distros, the version in Debian is probably prehistoric "in tech times", so maybe you are not seeing those (improvements). It's not recommended for rolling distros (Arch at least) though anyway.

[guigirl]

@npro said in Comparison: 'Synaptic' - 'Discover' in Linux:

version ... Debian ... prehistoric

[paul1149]

@guigirl Ironically, the most I've used freeze is when a new Vivaldi Snapshot would cause trouble. But I do like Synaptic's ease of version awareness and control.

[DoctorG]

@npro said in Comparison: 'Synaptic' - 'Discover' in Linux:

rolling distros

I do not like to use them.
Better some "prehistoric" Linux than a distrie on strike.
Vivaldi causes enuff work to fix.

[npro]

@DoctorG said in Comparison: 'Synaptic' - 'Discover' in Linux:

a distrie on strike

stereotype and FUD... coming from user's faults 99.9%

[guigirl]

@DoctorG Nah, rolling is just wunnerful. Once you go rolling, you're entitled to use this as your official theme song. I do, & it's fabbo.