> It took good 15 seconds to start showing anything
How old is your machine? It fires up instantly for me.
> I bet it wouldn't show anything if I had no Flatpak
Of course it wouldn't, as GSC is a flatpak GUI.
> AND gnome extension
Huh?
> And again it depends on how you view efficiency of your documentation
I define it as "easier to write and works for most cases".
T480 with 8GB and some kind of SSD :) And yes, it fires up instantly but then takes a theatrical pause before actually showing anything if it wasn't run recently. I guess it does something like "apt list" and "apt update" in the background and then parses it.
I think GSC needs
gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
to show flatpack repos (in addition to core package) which I have installed but I think it doesn't get installed by default.As for everything else - again, you don't really have a choice in most cases. In Windows you can install and configure web server (IIS) both GUI and CLI way. In Linux it is mostly just CLI.
Actually I can't even think of anything except software installation where you can have reasonable choice between CLI and GUI approaches in Linux.
T480 with 8GB and some kind of SSD :) And yes, it fires up instantly but then takes a theatrical pause before actually showing anything if it wasn't run recently. I guess it does something like "apt list" and "apt update" in the background and then parses it.
I think GSC needs
gnome-software-plugin-flatpak
to show flatpack repos (in addition to core package) which I have installed but I think it doesn't get installed by default.