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Suggestion: Add some method to refresh PCI-IDs

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

Start by locating where mintreport displays PCI hardware identifiers and how it launches system commands; the issue specifically mentions sudo update-pciids as the refresh entry point. Done means users have a discoverable way to refresh the PCI-ID database, either through a control or the application startup behavior, with the chosen behavior verified.

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Description

I oft see people who think their modern hardware isn't detected correctly due to an outdated PCI-ID database, and it's not obvious on how to fix this. It took me over a year to discover for myself that I had to execute sudo update-pciids to get something more reasonable to display.

Whether it be a button or just executed on launch, just having some way to quickly refresh the database would be a nice bit of QoL.

Dominant language
Python
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30
Forks
26
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