| shop | synaptic | |
|---|---|---|
| 34 | 3 | |
| 88 | 143 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.8 | 2.1 | |
| about 2 months ago | 7 days ago | |
| Vala | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
shop
Posts with mentions or reviews of shop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-24.
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Pop shop makes the whole system freeze!
To view logs, in terminal run journalctl or journalctl -r for reverse order (newest first). Then search by pressing / and look for io.elementary.appcenter. And yes, Pop Shop is based on Elementary OS’s app center.
- Sorting Installed Packages in Pop!_Shop?
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[Feature Request] - Pop Shop still does not show where an installation is coming from (normal apt/apt-get, Flatpak, Snap, etc.)
It already is open source, and always has been: https://github.com/pop-os/shop
- Does Pop!_Shop leak memory?
- Can someone suggest me a good gaming linux distro that has a good looking user interface
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Is there plan for a new Pop!_Shop along COSMIC DE?
Memory-hogging; even when idle in the background, it can take ~500MB of memory alone. This is not very friendly to older hardware. See issue
- Mesa, Linux, Pop Shop updates available for testing
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Recently migrate from Manjaro for the excellent support of pop os on Nvidia Optimus laptops, but having a hard time to understand how to install apps that don’t appear in pop shop. kind of rookie question or just used to have everything in Manjaro Gui packages manager
You can track progress at https://github.com/pop-os/shop/commits/master
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I just realized that even pop devs also love to refer the Pop!_Shop's look as the Elementary appstore :| (found this in my sys monitor)
The Pop shop is a fork of the elementary app store.
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Pop Shop keeps getting more reliable
Sure, there was the time recently when the flathub backend was down, and Pop Shop crashed. But other than that,
synaptic
Posts with mentions or reviews of synaptic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-06.
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X.Org Server 21.1 Coming. I am happy since there is not clear upgrade path from it
Hasn’t synaptic long been fixed on wayland?
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"Bestest" package manager in Debian Buster Wayland
In bullseye, according to https://github.com/mvo5/synaptic/issues/15#issuecomment-532084068
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Ubuntu software store. Never works. All I ever see. Year after year.
Synaptic is a graphical interface (still maintained), the commands are everything and can run from terminal if you know the syntax or any other package manager.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing shop and synaptic you can also consider the following projects:
appcenter - Pay-what-you-can app store for elementary OS
dde-store - An app store for DDE built with DTK
apt - Fork of https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt
ckb-next - RGB Driver for Linux
docs - System76 support documentation site
qmk_configurator - The QMK Configurator
pop - A project for managing all Pop!_OS sources
rivalcfg - CLI tool and Python library to configure SteelSeries gaming mice
flatline - Select apps directly from your favorite software center by clicking Install from Flathub, apps.gnome and AppCenter.
qmk_firmware - Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
USB-WiFi - USB WiFi Adapter Information for Linux