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>I'm not sure if it's true or not, but I've heard that Solus 4 will be built using QT instead of GTK.

That was never going to be the case, we never had Solus 4 as a target for Budgie 11. Also it would've been Budgie, not Solus, that would've been built using Qt5.

This has been changed to GTK4, which will be our focus for sometime next year. I want to round out this year with a Solus 4 release (and potentially Solus 4.1 release, time permitted). There is a bunch of improvements coming to Budgie 10.5, you can get a glimpse of them from our Summertime Solus blog post. Yesterday we did a hackfest where I was working on some new underlying window tracking so it can be leveraged by IconTasklist (and therefore hopefully resolve some of the issues people have addressed). After that, it's just a matter of me adding some further type checks / error handling, deploying Weblate for translation updates, then tagging a new release of both Budgie as well as Solus 4.

According to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/blob/proton_3.7/PREREQS.md:

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"users with NVIDIA graphics cards should install the latest NVIDIA proprietary drivers; version 396.51 is required"

Currently, the Stable 390.xx drivers are the latest available in the Solus repo.

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"DirectX 11 games:

You will need NVIDIA 396.51 or Mesa 18.1.x at a minimum. LLVM7 or above is recommended to play DX11 games without GPU hangs."

LLVM 6.0.1 is the latest available.

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"Core OpenGL games (DOOM 2016, Google Earth VR, etc):

You will need Mesa 18.2.0 at a minimum."

18.1.6 is the latest available.

They are in need of package maintainers for quite a few packages, I think that's one of the quickest things to learn how to do.

https://dev.getsol.us/maniphest/query/JaUSc1fo914Z/

https://getsol.us/articles/packaging/

System Requirements

• A blank DVD or a 2GB+ USB drive.
• Minimum of 10GB of disk space available.
• 2GB of RAM for an optimal experience.
• A 64-bit (x86_64) processor.

From the download page https://getsol.us/download/

Reverse image search leads to this photographer.

The Unsplash license states:

>Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash.

The year defines how far back the claim should be dated to. If it is changed to 2017, they would in effect be forfeiting their claim to 2016...

Seems like most web design people don't know that and just update to current.

I always preferred to put founding year to present. (e.g. Copyright ©1990-2017)

A better answer provided below from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2390230/do-copyright-dates-need-to-be-updated

The copyright notice on a work establishes a claim to copyright. The date on the notice establishes how far back the claim is made. This means if you update the date, you are no longer claiming the copyright for the original date and that means if somebody has copied the work in the meantime and they claim its theirs on the ground that their publishing the copy was before your claim, then it will be difficult to establish who is the originator of the work.

Therefore, if the claim is based on common law copyright (not formally registered), then the date should be the date of first publication. If the claim is a registered copyright, then the date should be the date claimed in the registration. In cases where the work was substantially revised you may establish a new copyright claim to the revised work by adding another copyright notice with a newer date or by adding an additional date to the existing notice as in "© 2000, 2010". Again, the added date establishes how far back the claim is made on the revision.

• Chrome - it's in the "Third party" section
• Thunderbird - it's in the repo
• Audacity - it's in the repo
• SimpleScreenRecorder - it's in the repo
• MEGA cloud storage - web version is there, and there's also "megatools" in the repo
• Tresorit cloud storage - the version from their website should work fine
• Private Internet Access - it's just a regular VPN service, right? It will work fine.
• Teamviewer - Idk, but you shouldn't be using it as it has major security problems. VNC is a good replacement.
• Skype - has a snap package and a web version
• - the version from their website should work, but you may need to tinker with dependencies a bit
• LibreOffice - it's in the repo
• Steam - it's in the repo
• VLC - it's in the repo
• Redshift - there's "Night light" built-in which is the same thing basically
• Kdenlive - it's in the repo

https://getsol.us/2018/10/27/in-full-sail/

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This blog post will give you an idea of the state of Solus and it's future. The team has a clear vision for Solus. I have faith in the team and I don't think they treated Ikey in a bad way at all. They speak very highly of him, they just took the necessary measures to keep Solus alive.

if you want to install something, you should search the Solus repositories first. if you search online you'll get results for Ubuntu because it's generally considered the most popular distribution. If you're coming from Windows especially, it probably feels natural to find software by searching online, but Linux has better options than that. check out the Solus software centre, snapcraft.io and flathub.org.

if Solus adopted Apt and the Ubuntu repositories it'd basically just be a weird version of Ubuntu, so what would be the point? if you want to use Ubuntu instead no one's stopping you, but Solus has a lot to offer, and having its own sensible and well-curated repositories is a big part of that!

https://getsol.us/2018/10/27/in-full-sail/

especially:

"Dediserve is what was used for the previous Solus domain name and DNS. Without access to this, we are unable to update the various DNS settings to point to our new servers and as a result were forced to migrate to getsol.us, likely permanently."

>Because it is an easy way to show 99% of users what is the state of the project

What part of "actively updated weekly" is so hard to understand ?

It's Friday, you get your updates ---> the project is working fine.

If and when something really important happens (like this or this) , it goes on the blog.

Again, if there's nothing important to say (and "all is working as usual" is not important....), nothing should be said.

Solus' "Getting Involved" has a list of ways to contact the team if you're looking to help.

You don't need to be a wizard in C to help. Packaging, bug triage, translations, documentation, even just helping other users with problems are all useful.

If you have web development skills, Solus has web pages that Josh has been trying to keep up with. Perhaps he could use some help with them.

The team try to keep up on most social media channels like here on Reddit, but they're very busy so sometimes things slip through the cracks. The best way to contact them is via #Solus and #Solus-Dev on freenode IRC.

Never mind, I fixed my problem, I just installed rEFInd for anyone who may be reading this at a future date, here is what my problem was: I didn't have efibootmgr installed to do that just run the command

sudo eopkg it efibootmgr

and from there install rEFInd using this tutorial

yep. as a workaround you can for now rollback to repository version with previous kernel version. it fixed my issue right away after rebooting.

https://getsol.us/articles/package-management/history-and-rollback/en/

1. Ups are probably speed, booting, updating, installing packages are all very fast. Also as it's rolling packages are generally very up to date but it is curated so it's more stable than something like Arch. Downs are probably lack of packages, many of these will be available as Flatpaks or Snaps though. Sometimes, you'll have to build something yourself though.
2. In terms of choosing programs to install, not very, however it is exceedingly easy to remove things you don't want.
3. It's rolling release, generally updates are on Fridays, the devs usually say if not. I've been running the same system since 2017 on this machine.
4. Haven't used Budgie for a few years but I think it's lighter than Gnome if you're used to that.
5. Yes the documentation is good: https://getsol.us/help-center/home/

>XFCE development and progression doesn’t match the velocity of Solus nor do we view XFCE as providing functionality that can’t otherwise be achieved with Budgie or MATE.

Source: https://getsol.us/2016/09/05/this-week-in-solus-install-35/

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To give you an idea the last XFCE release was in February 2015

At this point of time the worst thing is another radio silence. I know you mentioned in the blog post that you want to see how things turns out to be and then comment, but what I'm worried about are:

1. people migrating to other distros because they think the current situation is a mess
2. people feel insecure and detached from the distro

I would like to suggest that you continue with the Sundays With Solus podcast regularly every week (even if it is for 10 minutes)

https://getsol.us/2017/04/24/this-week-in-solus-install-43/#sundays-with-solus

You can use clonezilla, which is distro/OS-agnostic and can be downloaded from their website as an iso and burned onto a USB stick. From there, plug in an external hdd and boot the clonezilla iso. Then just follow the instructions and you’ll have a backed up image of your OS on the external hdd.

Plugging in the USB stick and your external hdd, and then restoring it is a very similar process.

I did this a few weeks back with my arch installation and it worked great.

Here’s a YouTube tutorial if you find that a friendlier medium

You won't be able to install Private Internet Access on Solus like you can on Ubuntu. However, PIA supports OpenVPN.

Follow this guide to to setup PIA with OpenVPN from the terminal.

Follow this guide to configure PIA with OpenVPN from the System Settings.

I am not sure how to set a VPN to autoconnect in GNOME Network Manager.

No it doesn't. Working well enough to not notice what it didn't do is not the same as working the way you expect. We even wrote explicit instructions on how to do it the right way: https://getsol.us/articles/software/desktop-environments/en/#gnome-shell

Ctrl Alt F3, login, install lightdm, reboot.

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If this doesn't work, use https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/boot-rescue/en/

For the Plasma iso yes. Plasma release is still in testing, bit pointless to have a testing iso when people roll their own.

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If you want Plasma iso use the one linked in the blog post https://getsol.us/2018/10/24/shiny-delights/

I almost asked the same question today, see here https://getsol.us/articles/software/samba/en/#enabling-legacy-smb1-cifs-protocol-support and here

https://reddit.com/comments/9yf741/comment/ea196th?context=3

I believe you need a paid account to use Windscribe via OpenVPN.

I've been waiting for Windscribe or someone to port the Linux version to Solus. As it stands, the only decent free VPN that can be used via OpenVPN is the free version of ProtonVPN, which while is it quite decent for being free, it doesn't work with torrents.

I've not been able to get anything to run so far... I install a game that is "perfect" on that list and the game fails to launch... it just says "running" for one second and then goes back to "ready to play"

CPU 1800x

RX 480 8GB

16GB RAM​

If anyone has come across this issue and has a solution please let me know.

https://hastebin.com/ronulanojo.sql

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EDIT:

I removed .steam and the .local steam folder and reinstalled the steam client and it now works

Oops sorry for that, yes I meant the computer.
By crashes, I mean everything freezes. I have to long press the power button to force shutdown. (Can't access the cltl alt terminals either).
Log - https://ghostbin.com/paste/574og
Last few lines
>Apr 01 11:44:10 thinkpadl lightdm[624]: gkr-pam: couldn't unlock the login keyring.
Apr 01 11:44:11 thinkpadl kernel: rtl8192se: switch case 0x5e not processed
Apr 01 11:44:15 thinkpadl pulseaudio[826]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
Apr 01 11:44:15 thinkpadl pulseaudio[774]: [pulseaudio] backend-ofono.c: Failed to register as a handsfree audio agent with ofono: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.ofono was not provided by any .service files

I've tried Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator (uses D3D9) and it works, however, gamepad mapping is messed up. Also tried DOOM demo, and it fails to launch for me without any output.

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Edit: just found out that for OpenGL core games Mesa 18.2 is required. That probably explains why I can't launch DOOM.

Not sure I completely understand your problem.

You can boot W10 using EFI but not using Solus own boot manager, correct?

What is your partition/bootloader setup?

Are you using a single EFI system partition (ESP) for W10 and Solus or do they each have their own ESP?

If W10 and Solus share an ESP, W10 should show up as an entry in Solus boot manager. You can try running sudo clr-boot-manager update in a terminal and see if that helps.

AFAIK there's no way to boot Windows using Solus boot manager, if W10 and Solus each have their own ESP. You will have to use EFI to boot Windows or install rEFInd

Edit: Rereading your post I may have misunderstood and you are not able to boot W10 at all. In which case I really don't know how to help, sorry.

As long as you didn't overwrite your W10 ESP it should show up in your EFI boot menu as "Windows Boot Manager" or something similar.

If you have a Windows entry but it doesn't boot W10, have you checked that you didn't accidentally overwrite your W10 install when you installed Solus?

For the desktop information you can use conky, but it takes some editing tho... if you're comfortable enough with editing config files, then this should be a breeze. If not, then you can always start from somewhere.

About raven, I am not sure whether there are other applets for it...

• Flatpak
• Snap
• To check Solus' repo, I suppose you'd need to download it and try it (either in a VM or a Live USB).

Unless you need something very very specific (like a COBOL compiler), it's quite likely all the software you use is included in Solus

You can use snaps for it. Microsoft maintains the package and they keep it up to date.

sudo snap install dotnet-sdk --classic

Don't forget to add an alias so that you can call it using the dotnet command

sudo snap alias dotnet-sdk.dotnet dotnet

The first one is herbstluftwm, second is just Plasma.

I can't really speak to using either of those, but you can get pretty close by using i3 + polybar, having your terminal be alacritty so you have a nice terminal with no titlebar, using cava for the console audio visualizer (it's what makes the bars in the first screenshot), and enabling floating window mode. Dunno about the line visualizer thing. Nothing especially fancy overall though.

Uptime bit can be pretty much anything, it's nothing complex. neofetch supports images using w3m-img and the like, see https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Images-in-the-terminal

The Plasma thing can probably just be accomplished using Plasmoids and the billion options Plasma always has.

Excellent documentation and community.

Also the package manager has a built in roll-back feature.

https://getsol.us/articles/package-management/history-and-rollback/en/

If you cannot TTY, then try the steps here to chroot in from a live usb and check for broken packages.

https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/boot-rescue/en/

No, we don't support Matrix at this time. Any community you find that is outside of what we report on our Getting Involved page is not likely to be official.

The best ways of engaging are through: our IRC channels, development tracker, forums, and places like here (our subreddit :)).

This happened to me before after a windows update so I learned to never install windows again. Try https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/boot-rescue/en/#chrooting-to-your-solus-system then clr-boot-manager update if you're not worried about losing your windows 10 install as well.

Still the Software Center solus-sc, you can install 3rd party from the command line:

https://getsol.us/articles/software/third-party/en/

Also i recommend to install/update from CLI eopkg over the Software Center, it has never failed to me

Yep, current Software center has some bugs and Solus team is not working on fixing them because they work on completely new Software center which should address all the issues you described, plus it will look much nicer. I personally use command line eopkg to install and update software, but sometimes fire up Software center if i want to find something using search or to install 3rd party software. If you want to try Budgie, you don't have to download whole new iso, just install Budgie desktop using command line. Then just log out and select Budgie from menu and login again. You can read instructions how to do that here: https://getsol.us/articles/software/desktop-environments/en/

I'm using Solus Budgie as my daily driver for almost a year now and i even removed windows from my laptop and i never looked back.

If you have a cursor, it may have booted and then something went wrong with the graphical interface. Try these steps https://pastebin.com/w5gWnd2j

If it is a boot failure, report back and we can try to fix that instead.

EDIT: here is the help center article for boot rescue:

https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/boot-rescue/en/

Here are a few things:

* Installing virtualbox from the Software Center doesn't mean you installed the version that matches the kernel

* BUT as you said it used to work for a while (and I guess vbox wasn't reinstalled in the meantime, right?), it probably means there is a mismatch between the virtualbox kernel modules and the kernel itself -> sudo eopkg up is the very first thing to do.
* If it still doesn't work, compare the running kernel version `uname -r` with the latest available kernel
* Reinstalling virtualbox will not kill the already installed virtual machines.

All this is explained on the help center, so please confirm you (or your friend) did all the checks and if not solved, please provide extra feedback so we can try to help you.

It's always good helping packaging

https://getsol.us/articles/packaging/ and don't be scared to hop on IRC into #solus-dev if you have issues/question while packaging

Licensing:

>The following applications are provided via our 3rd Party Repository to facilitate the installation and usage of them. These applications cannot be included in the primary repository due to licensing issues.

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From Third party on getsol.us

Looks like Italian is 100% translated at the moment, but that will probably change as things get added. You can register to help with translations here.

VPN providers usually have binaries for many distros, but when they have no binaries for your distribution you run the VPN connection under OpenVPN

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1. Go to https://windscribe.com/getconfig/openvpn and download the config files (need an account to download the files)
2. Open at menu network/advance network configuration
3. + Add VPN > Import from file (the one you just downloaded from the provider)
4. Enter the VPN credentials (user/password if is account based)

Done(:

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OpenVPN is already installed on Solus by default, to connect just open network at menu and select the VPN you want to connect to

I don't see one, aside from the upfront credit card fees as noted above... and potentials from one's bank if they go that route... Liberapay seems to get funded via donations similar to other opensource projects... Liberapay FAQ says that there are no fees between liberapay accounts... which sounds like if I give you 10 dollars, you get 10 dollars.

Although from my side of the fence I can't see what happens when one wants to collect... seems there is a "Payday" via a payday.py program on github... that I am unable to properly interpret..

The Mullvad VPN dev.solus link I gave was just to show that very recently, like literally a month ago, a user stepped up to become the maintainer for the Mullvad app to be included in Solus. I don't have an ETA, but I think it's only just a matter of time before it's approved, and included. You may follow that dev tracker for any updates (aka check it like once a week for updates).

I don't know what distro you're on currently, I would advise sticking with it if you're happy with it, but if I somehow convinced you to give Solus another go just keep an open mind about some of the things I mentioned and as they say, it should all be 'smooth sailing' from here.

HI Skvepa, well done!! if you have successfully installed 2017.01.01 and then applied all updates, your Solus system will be the equivalent of 2017.01.18, with updated kernels (4.9.22-xx).

It appears that there must be some configuration / modification in that kernel from 4.9.20 that wont allow the OS to boot correctly (I recall this was also the case with Shannon 1.0 -(not exactly sure of kernel version)) Thankfully Ikey and the team instituted using clr-boot-manager (CBM), which will allow using previous used kernels.

When booting into Solus, press esc key to access kernel load options and select 4.9.20-12. Your system should load successfully and be fully functional, just not running on the latest kernel. (But all software updates applied)

I'm sure the devs will attend to the bug report in due time - they're good like that.

[EDIT] BTW - You can use terminal on MacOS to create Live USB as per instructions in Solus Help Centre https://solus-project.com/articles/installation/preparing-to-install/en/

Instructions under Command Line Section (See the links on right hand side of help )page

MacOS specific instructions here for using DD, but use the terminal commands for creating the Live USB using Solus Help Centre instructions (DD commands) http://osxdaily.com/2015/06/05/copy-iso-to-usb-drive-mac-os-x-command/

Host graphics card shouldn't matter as long as all the kernel mods are properly installed (does your graphics card work natively? If so, you're fine).

Make sure you have the guest additions installed (this, if I recall correctly, is a manual process in Solus). https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#idm2099

Gnome won't perform very well under vbox either, so IMHO it's going to be very hard to test Solus if you're constantly frustrated with the graphics performance. You won't be able to appreciate the speed. Better just to do a partition or external drive install. Even better, just nuke your current distro and install Solus ;)

Basically, as long as your virtualbox is set up correctly, there shouldn't be any issues.

It doesn't appear to be packaged in the repos, however, it looks like there are source packages available. You may be able to just build it yourself. I haven't tried it myself but usually, you open the directory in the command line and run the configure, make, and then make install commands.

Yeah for the integration no ? Because if you begin to pull nautilus by default for example you will end up with gnome-desktop see : https://www.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-unstable/x86_64/nautilus/ Look at the dependencies.

Did you monitor temperatures of your GPU?

sudo watch -n 0.5 cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_pm_info

If you don't have 2 screens, you can also use flightlessmango's overlay to monitor (I guess you run sims using dxvk), and even write it to a file so even if your notebook turns off, you will have the data in that file:

https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud

You are indeed right about that the Lutris devs don't say that wine-staging has different dependencies than regular wine.

However the introduction on the GitHub page we're talking about states:

>Most of the time, you want to use the most recent version of Wine Staging, this should be the "best" Wine for your game. In specific cases you might need to run an older/patched version of Wine(Staging) for a game. (bolding mine)

You can interpret that as meaning that they are generally referring to wine staging when mentioning wine. On the Lutris download page is also heavily emphasised that you should download Wine staging: https://lutris.net/downloads/ which supports this interpretation.

But I don't know. To me it just seems rather unclear :)

I'm going to assume you are using UEFI. UEFI can only search FAT partitions for executables. Put a small (256-512MB) FAT32 partition on your HDD and reinstall, this time selecting the new partition for the bootloader.

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If you want a nicer looking boot selection screen, look at rEFInd with a theme. It may be a hassle to setup without experience, but it is worth it for the polish.

That is a good plan.

Keep in mind that if you leave your /home partition intact between different distros, to rename your .whatever.conf files in your home folder(you can get away with using symbolic links, but thats a lesson for the future) it can prevent the Xserver/whatever-else from loading right.

These .files are hidden from normal view, can be viewed in the file manager by selecting hidden files in one of the drop down, sometimes ctrl+H or ls:

ls -a

ESP partitions(atm machine) advantage is dependent on your motherboard unfortunately. Have some UEFI love

Mark this as a reference for the future

others have said it but I can't stress this enough - it probably feels so natural to look for software using an internet search engine but you'll have a bad time doing that - you'll end up getting frustrated trying to install .deb files and so on.

and try not to get frustrated if a familiar piece of software isn't available - it's better to take the approach of "how do I accomplish task x?" rather than "how do I install software y?". browse the Solus software centre and try out your options there, browse snapcraft.io and flathub.org to find third-party software, and don't be afraid to ask the community if you're not sure what to do.

on a more positive note, get excited, because Solus works so nicely it just makes you happy to use it! occasionally I remember what it was like to use Windows, and all the weird annoying shit I had to put up with (BSODs, having to jump through hoops to install/uninstall software, etc.) and it makes me smile because I just don't have to deal with that anymore!

> No such file or directory

Or the binary it isn't executable or the " /home/jaimz/Documents/C++/cmake-build-Debug/bin" directory isn't created when source is compiled^(At least you have a working terminal now :D), open Terminal and run:

codelite

Put all the output on https://hastebin.com and paste the link here, please

You should be able to rollback. https://getsol.us/articles/package-management/history-and-rollback/en/

Or you can just select the previous kernel. Just hit esc when booting to get grub.

I recently installed Solus in my laptop too (I don't have that issue, but i have another with double locking) but one thing I've learned is that Solus doesn't have grub

https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/boot-management/en/

maybe this could help you... a few days ago I needed to identify what was the cause of an error

I created the file /etc/kernel/cmdline with the text "systemd.log_level=debug"... then after reboot... that line was added to the kernel and I was able to access more detailed logs (journalctl)

In the few days I've been with Solus, I noticed there's a lot of differences in some stuff other distros do... not better or worse (can't judge that) just different

Umh if I remember correctly the guide on the forum says KDE is the only DE you can't install alongside others (i.e budgie) because it breaks.

https://getsol.us/articles/software/desktop-environments/en/

Well, you can always start checking Solus' help centre. If you already installed everything with no problem, I'd say the next step is to use your pc and enjoy it :D

At least skype is availabe in "Software Center" as third party applications. If snap version doesn't work, you can install it with these instructions: https://getsol.us/articles/software/third-party/en/#skype-for-linux

I would start here. https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/boot-rescue/en/

Once you have the live USB in you can chroot to your install, get logs, check drive space/health/repair, broken packages, etc..

Kinda sounds like you might have a bad drive:(

This is the key to a good workflow [not a rick roll >:) ]

try installing gnome, it has a great workflow and is the most productive of the desktops available in solus

FYI, you cant install KDE unless you installed from the KDE iso. weird solus thing. you also cant get gnome,mate, or budgie if you installed from the KDE iso

you couldn't be more worng :) we are going to replace in the faaar future our thirdparty https://getsol.us/articles/software/third-party/en/ repo with snaps/Flatpak. this means we are going to remove the apps where we can see there is a snap/flatpak so we do not have to maintain them, we will always prefer the Solus repo over snap/flatpak we just going support them from the beginning but without pre installed snaps

Thirdparty are software which we aren't allowed to package for the solus repo!

That's right, Solus uses the clr-boot-manager. I didn't understand what you need to manipulate, but here's some information on boot management with the clr-boot-manager:

https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/boot-management/en/

Chrome is not updated with upgrade, it is done through the third party section in the software center or with the command on the helps page.

Sometimes the update servers are not availible and I tend to wait for a few hours or check the next day.

Not sure about the other problems you are having.

maybe, just maybe due to some necessary packages being broken or missing...not sure tho, but sometimes rolling back to a previous state restores the system back to normal

https://getsol.us/articles/package-management/history-and-rollback/en/

You can download from here, burn to a USB stick using 'Etcher' then boot into it by changing your primary boot device. It'll leave your current OS in tact while you browse the new Solus system, checking that things like WiFi, speakers etc etc work. Remember, nothing you download and install will remain on the live version, but when you are ready to install permanently, click the box icon in the bottom left and it'll start the installation.

Good luck, its an amazing OS.

It does work on live usb but you'd need to chroot to fix it. They have a very good walk though on how to do this here. https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/boot-rescue/en/

Well at a guess. On Solus gnome uses GDM not lightdm, slick-greeter is for lightdm. Installing slick-greeter would pull in lightdm which conflicts with GDM so it would be removed so you now have no working display manager.

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Roll back to before installing slick-greeter, you sure you went back far enough?

ctrl+alt+F2 to get a terminal login screen, login and follow the instructions on rolling back.

https://getsol.us/articles/package-management/history-and-rollback/en/

Sounds like X isn't starting. Did you make any recent changes to either the system or your hardware?

Have you followed the steps in the troubleshooting guide?

>No.

Good to know, you might want to post an update to this blog post. I was just going off of what was said there.

>It's not going to look like those mockups.

"Disclaimer though, these mockups are over two years old and in no way represent what Budgie could look like in the future." Thanks for confirming it though. Are there any design elements that Budgie 11 is going to adhere to? Any new mockups or ideas that can represent what we can expect in Budgie 11?

>We were intent on keeping with GTK even before Ikey left. Ikey has nothing to do with it.

I know that, but these mockups were made when Budgie was planned to be on QT at the time and when Ikey was a contributor to Solus (plus the source of the mockup), which is why I found it relevant to point out, and thus supporting the argument that Budgie might not (will not) look like this in the future.

>That's because actionable notifications aren't a thing in Raven yet. It's planned for Budgie 11.

Thanks!

As per our official Help Center documentation, we suggest having Solus on its own dedicated ESP which is 500mb. This is to ensure we are able to reliably able to perform updates on the ESP, EFI entries, etc. as well as ensure it isn't going to be manipulated or wiped by Windows.

> but if you want to make solus easy to dual boot with Windows then it's something you have to accept.

Not accurate. Most UEFI firmware supports having multiple ESPs.

To add, Solus Blog is also a good place to look at. Here for example is a post titled "Clear inspiration" made by Ikey. A must read if you are interested.

You might have installed a wrong nvidia driver if you installed it from the terminal, the advantage of DoFlicky is that it will select correct drivers for your hardware.

It's a pity that you randomly apply fixes without even wondering if they apply to your problem or not since now you con't access the TTY anymore.

Now you have to make a boot rescue to get back the control of your system (or reinstall but personally I prefer trying to fix the issues so I can learn things rather that just reinstalling).

Thanks everyone for their suggestions, problem solved - no need for a PPD file. My Epson L365 is now working fabulously in a wireless way:

Solution: https://getsol.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7826&start=40#p43902

You can install Gnome whenever, and even keep Budgie installed, just choose which DE you want to use when logging in.

https://getsol.us/articles/software/desktop-environments/en/

That's got directions for installing the officially supported DEs.

Grub in Solus is for legacy boot only (which means non-UEFI boot). It typically doesn't work well when trying to mix them. You would need to enable legacy boot to boot Solus most likely.

Note that the installation mode is determined by how the install USB is booted. If via EFI, it will perform an EFI installation. Some methods of writing a USB will break the possibility of UEFI boot, with supported methods listed here https://getsol.us/articles/installation/preparing-to-install/en/

Sounds like we might have to wait for Wayland then.

Apparently Wayland support was planned for Solus 4 and support for an experimental Wayland session for GNOME Shell was actually added in with the the Solus 3 ISO refresh. Let's hope it starts working well enough to become default within not too many years.

I’m a budding dev, just learning. I found these resources though. For all support, contribution options, you’d love this a s a dev. support Solus And I know some devs check Reddit as they can, but I believe this is their official forums, for both users & those who can help w/ dev side too. Solus forums Good luck & I’d be personally interested in how you help out, with my self being someone who may in the future. :)

Tell him to remove it, then run inside the terminal

uname -r

if the kernel name has current in it, he should run

sudo eopkg it virtualbox-current

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https://getsol.us/articles/software/virtualbox/en/

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here is the guide and the error is mentioned inside the troubleshooting

https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/boot-management/en/#appending-kernel-parameters-to-solus-boot

>Warning: /dev/disk/by-uuid/ab6326bb-f0b7-4a6e-aed2-7v787e5c652c does not exist

~~It can't find your disk basically, either the uuid changed or something died. Don't panic pre-emptive tought...~~

https://getsol.us//articles/troubleshooting/boot-rescue/en/

Edit: I see you're using encryption, most likely LUKS (don't really know since I'm not running Solus myself) so it's probably bound to the bootloader not properly decrypting your luks partition ...

Do the following in addition to test if it can be decrypted manually mounting it from within the emergency mode:

https://evilshit.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/how-to-mount-luks-encrypted-partitions-manually/

There's the possibility the uuid changed (due to whatever reasons) and you'd just need to edit your grub boot-entries to reflect it properly ...

Thank you! The kernel parameter was in fact missing and that solved it. That is quite different to how I'm used to doing it in say Arch Linux, but yet again you only prepare a loader configuration once and it doesn't change in Arch, whereas Solus seems to generate a new one with each kernel update.

Would you mind giving me some pointers to where I could learn more about this /etc/kernel/cmdline? I'm interested as to how it works.

Edit: Nevermind, here it is. Interesting read.

I have my own package.yml to build that which I've uploaded here.

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If you haven't built a package before see here.

Well that's true because the videos can't just be updated like text to replace (for example) solus-project.com by getsol.us but the principle remains the same.

>I guess I hadn't thought SMB1 protocol would be considered "legacy" and as such, I didn't look further down the page to troubleshoot.
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>I appreciate the help. Editing SMB2 within the /usr/share/defaults/samba/smb.conf to NT1 worked.

Perhaps you should keep on reading because you should never modify the configuration files that are under /usr/share/default/... as these stateless configuration files are overwritten each time the package is updated.

PS: what you consider "legacy" actually means insecure or vulnerable.

Checked as well, is broken for as well try booting via nomode

https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/boot-management/en/#appending-kernel-parameters-to-solus-boot

KeepassXC (in the repo as keepassx, ' utilizes the KeepassXC fork'), enpass in the3rd party section.

Enpass is great. It can sync with a variety of services (next/owncloud, dropbox, etc).

I'm a long time keepass[xc] user and use it also because android client/sync.

Being a young distro, many things are still a work in progress. The addition of the public key is a recent introduction, but I have not yet seen them amend the install guide. At some point, I expect that they will post alternative sources for the keys, as well. So while we can not necessarily verify that the source of the file is genuine, we can certainly verify the integrity of the file (which is what SHA256 does) via the PGP key. The process is well documented on YouTube and elsewhere. It is an interesting exercise, but honestly, without multiple independent sources for the keys, I would question it's value, so long as the SHA256 hash matches.

If you are interested, the Qubes OS installation guide does a pretty good job of explaining how to use the PGP keys to prove both file authenticity and file integrity.

https://www.qubes-os.org/security/verifying-signatures/

About making the USB, you could try Etcher, I have been using that on all OS perfectly, make bootable USB a breeze.

Swap partition you don't really need. You can always make swapfile like so, it is more flexible and you don't have to worry - turn on, off, expand, ...

If you want to completely remove Windows, go ahead and choose to install the OS on that disk/ use gparted/other tool to wipe it. You will need /boot/efi/ for EFI boot (this one I actually don't remember how Solus is different, so you have to look at above comment :D, but generally the same. fat32, 512MB), / for root, and /home/ if you want to have a separated home folder (highly suggest so). /home/ gonna be equal to C:\Users/ (so it is a good idea to keep it as big as you need, but if you want to make /home/ on the third hard drive you have, it's completely possible too! the idea of having a separated /home/ so if you mess up something and have to reinstall your distro, you will have all your data and your dotfiles (read more about this somewhere on the web :D).

That's all I have and I hope you have a good time running linux. Also, if I make any mistake, please help to fix me!

Same for Serif, it's really sad, that they don't want to create a linux version of their software...

I am really not a fan of skins, as they might break without notice on any minor update...

For Vector images I found Vectr : https://vectr.com/

As for Gimp, I won't use it that much, I would be much more interested in a "Windows Photos" Alternative which does minor editing as well as photo compression without much hassle...

I use cryptostorm. They are open source, decentralized, and activist-centered. They're kind of the RiseUp of VPN services. They offer a free service called cryptofree. You can find the config files on their github page.

Thanks for the quick fix!

Install networkmanager-pptp and set it using Network Manager, actually PPTP isnt recommended for VPNs nowadays since is insecure

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Why PPTP is an outdated and insecure protocol

Please check to see if the game you want to play is actually playable or maybe you never allowed the .appimage to be executable?

Some games from my experince on RPCS3 do just crash, if it works on Open gl but not vulkan for you I suggest you take a look at your /usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/10_nvidia.json and see if it looks like the 2nd post you linked. I followed the steps and got it to work.

Also rpcs3 gives errors nonstop.

Wow, Sequeler looks like exactly what I've been looking for. I'll give it a go tomorrow morning and let you know how I get on. If there any issues I'll see if I can coax it into life.

If you're in a push and need a client right now though, I've been using DBeaver lately. It's straightforward to get running, and seems to work OK - it is rather slow and cumbersome though, as I think its roots are in Eclipse. Alas, if you're in urgent need of a DB GUI Client, then it's worth a go.

Solus also has a GUI app called Qomui in the repository, which makes it pretty easy to set up connections and has a lot of options, like auto connect and disable IPV6. Supported VPNs include Airvpn, Azirevpn, Mulvad, PIA, ProtonVPN, and Windscribe. I use ProtonVPN and there is a CLI app for Proton in the Solus repository but I wasn't able to get it working (don't recall why). Qomui works tho.

I'm planning on switching to NordVPN when my current VPN sub expires. How do you work it? Right now I'm going through the Qomui program. Does Nord have a client that works on Solus or do you use something else?

Nice! Only last week I decided to dabble with Antergos... Which just would not install :( so I then tried Elementary, which was okay... Not enough bells and whistles for my liking.

After all that I settled on Solus again! And now another reinstall?! Haha it's for a good reason tho :D

(I wanted to install Antergos for Unreal Engine 4 and NordVPN, any chance these two will make it to Solus one day?)

Either way, great work Team Solus!

Those are old instructions prior to Mullvad's rebuild of their app.

As the new app hasn't been packaged yet (see ), you will have to generate config files and load them into the network manager.

See Mullvad's page here:

Once you have the config files, go to the tray area and right-click on the network indicator. Select "edit connections", then use that dialog box to add a new VPN connection. Choose "OpenVPN" connection type.