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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.
Hi, I find Solus to be a unique distro myself and would be very surprised if it's user base did not continue to grow.
This link might help you
https://getsol.us/articles/contributing/
Good luck
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.
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/
Anyone looking for an overview of recent events should also read this blog post from the Solus team:
https://getsol.us/2018/10/27/in-full-sail/
The Core team has maintained the stability and beauty of the distro despite these circumstances; I think they should be commended.
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.
Under the SFC as their legal entity.
From the Solus blog post:
> The Conservancy is a non-profit organization which exists for the sole purpose of serving as a parent organization for FOSS projects. In this role, they are able to: > >* Receive tax-deductible charitable donations that may be directed to the Solus Project >* Provide us with the ability to hire full-time developers as contract workers >* Provide us with legal representation for both licensing (copyright) and branding (trademark) enforcement >* Assist in the organization and operation of Solus Community Events (e.g. conferences and meetups)
Nice! As a whole, I find Linux to be much more enjoyable to use than Windows, and I play games on Linux whenever practical. Some games perform better on Linux for me, but most perform slightly better on Windows, so don't be surprised if that's the case.
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My advice: don't stress on the choice of linux distro too much, especially when you are first getting started with linux. The differences largely come down to (1) which "desktop environment" (i.e. system-wide user interface) is installed by default, (2) which software is installed by default, (3) the availability and up-to-date-ness of software, and (4) how often you need to update the system as a whole. In practice, unless you have some reason to care strongly about those differences, the choice of distro tends to not affect things too too much.
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That said, I can't help but give you my distro thoughts. 😈 Personally, I like to have a wide variety of up-to-date software available, and I find that system-wide upgrades often break things, so I like "rolling release" distributions. These distros tend to have software updates available relatively quickly, and they never require you to upgrade the system itself. (In windows terms, rolling release is like if windows 7 slowly turned into windows 10 over the course of hundreds of small updates instead of having one big update.) For someone new to linux who also wants a rolling release distribution, I've heard good things about Solus linux. Might be worth checking out.
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.
Yes, it's only a few years old but very well done, elegant and designed for a modern desktop.
Official site: https://getsol.us/blog/
subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SolusProject/
Info from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solus_(operating_system)
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.
Here's sources, if you're interested enough to read about it:
- Solus 's teams news post /announcement.
- Ikey Doherthys reply to it.
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/
- 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.
- In terms of choosing programs to install, not very, however it is exceedingly easy to remove things you don't want.
- 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.
- Haven't used Budgie for a few years but I think it's lighter than Gnome if you're used to that.
- Yes the documentation is good: https://getsol.us/help-center/home/
Solus is nice. I used it for one year. They just use a different package manager call eopkg.
https://getsol.us/articles/package-management/basics/en/
Works great, they have a great community. I do like their DE call Budgie and a sidebar call Raven.
It's nice, give it a spin.
How about https://getsol.us/home/ I like budgie as de and you can use all the gaming Stuff (lutris, wine, ...) If you miss packages you should probably switch to Manjaro. Aside from these 2 you can try pop!_os (even though it is Ubuntu based) or maybe fool around with Debian testing. If Solus, archbased, Debian based isn't your thing try out fedora
>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:
- people migrating to other distros because they think the current situation is a mess
- 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
>I know KDE environment will not work and I am better off with XFCE
Actually, KDE should work. A lot of people is not aware of it, but KDE is actually a lightweight desktop nowadays.
>which distro is good for everyday usage?
Solus (Either Solus KDE or Solus MATE). It is fast, stable, and super easy to use.
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
Solus just release a newer version of their DE Budgie
https://getsol.us/2020/12/02/budgie-10-5-2-released/
Maybe they will be the talk of the town.
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 official support you could go for Ubuntu, but i'd personally go for one of it's flavours as they have a much more WIndows-like appearance (Be aware that KDE Plasma, which Kubuntu uses has some issues with NVIDIA's proprietary driver). The small drawback here is that you may have to rely on 3rd party repositories to get recent drivers and kernel as those get released every new version of Ubuntu.
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Alternatively you can go for Solus which has much more recent releases and is more curated to make sure there won't be any issues with newer packages.
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'm curious to see if they'll get access to the Paypal account the money was going to, and I'll be surprised if there's any money in there.
Ikey left for England in July, and at that point he was effectively done with Solus. Their update about Patreon shows that in the four months since then over $17,000 was paid out (after Patreon's fee but before taxes and PayPal fees) to a Paypal account Ikey was using with the solus-project.com name.
Now there's just over $70 in the Patreon account, and they're still working to see if they can get access to that Paypal account.
Ikey waited until the team came out publicly to say anything about any of it, and instead of reaching out to the team personally he went through Phoronix. I can't shake the feeling that he was just waiting to say anything because he knew the donations would stop when he did. It wouldn't be the first time someone with a Patreon did that.
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/
Both Kubuntu and Zorin are based on Ubuntu (so yeah, It can be said both are pure ubuntu with certain packages pre-installed and customizations), and both are extremely user friendly, so things like:
- Looking good OOTB
- Well integrated and finished
- Flatpak support
Apply to both distros. Now, let me correct some things:
>+Rolling release?
Neither Kubuntu nor Zorin OS are rolling release operating systems.
>-Not good looking OOTB
Kubuntu looks pretty much like Zorin by default (i.e similar colour scheme, similar layouts, similar menu, same desktop effects, etc), so I don't think is correct to say Kubuntu is not a good-looking distro out of the box.
>-Might lack GUIs and necessary tools due its simplicity (correct me if I'm wrong)
Not correct. KDE is one of the most veteran DEs out there (it's older than Gnome itself), and it is well known to be feature-rich and user-friendly. If you check KDE's control panel you'll see it has a GUI for basically everything, at the same level as Gnome.
Now, I would recommend you to check Solus KDE. It has to be one of the best implementations of KDE out there.
If you cannot TTY, then try the steps here to chroot in from a live usb and check for broken packages.
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.
I think Solus is a great distro that you could add to the list of recommended ones.
It's a curated rolling release that offers a really stable (my install is nearly a year old - it's been smooth sailing), newbie-friendly experience.
So if you want to throw one more recommendation in to the mix, I think it'd be a good pick.
Install Linux on bare metal, and you'll get better results. A VM is not the same as the real thing.
If you need windows, just choose your favourite distro and dualboot.
I don't have any experience with OpenSuse, but for the best (easiest) experience, it's best to go with a newbie-friendly distro.
My distro of choice is Solus, some other good newbie friendly distros are Ubuntu / Pop OS / Linux Mint.
Ofc if you're curious about OpenSuse, you can try that as well.
I don't have any mouse issues in Deus Ex.
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.
A história completa tá aqui: https://getsol.us/2018/10/27/in-full-sail/
Mas basicamente Ikey sumiu e não deu mais noticia, o resto do time por falta de pagamentos (toda a grana do patreon ia pro Ikey) perdeu acesso aos dominios e servidores, e também sem acesso ao patreon e por consequência a grana que estavam doando, então tiveram que arranjar tudo de novo. E basicamente ficou assim até contarem toda a história do primeiro link que eu mandei. Dizendo que agora estavam entrando em contato com o patreon pra tentarem ganhar acesso a conta, e enquanto não conseguiam para todo mundo cancelar as doações.
Uns dias depois disso Ikey publicou uma mensagem em um site de notícias de linux dizendo que virou pai e não vai estar mais trabalhando no projeto. Desejou ao time boa sorte e disse que como um gesto final ele mandou uma mensagem pro time com instruções de como ganhar acesso ao antigo dominio. E foi isso.
Dava pra ter entrado em contato antes dos serviços expirarem e eles terem que se virar em 1 semana pra migrar tudo, mas fazer o que né. E depois de reclamação de diversas pessoas ao patreon eles conseguiram acesso a conta (não aos fundos previos, a conta tava zerada), e disseram que daqui a um tempo quando eles tiverem tudo 100% eles vão voltar a aceitar doações.
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:
I think Solus. It is a relative new distribution from scratch (not based on Debian/Ubuntu or something else) with rolling release (but tested releases!). Budgie is a modern, however not really customizable desktop environment (I like it personally), but you can install Solus with GNOME or MATE as well. It is a desktop-only distribution without focus on servers or microPCs. The main negative point here is the lack of some packages.
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
I missed the domain change. Stuff like that is why we'll eventually need distro maintainers to proactively monitor various distros for such things.
Looking around https://getsol.us I didn't see any tarballs or .img files either. No equivalent to the main-x86_64.img.xz I used last time I looked into this. I tried cheating and using stuff like querying google for things like site:getsol.us "main-x86_64.img.xz" without success.
While I'd very much prefer brl fetch grab something minimal that the user can optionally build up with a package manager, if that's not an option a non-minimal stratum is the next best thing. If we have a way to get a non-minimal Solus, I'd prefer that to nothing. However, I think it's even more than them just not wanting to provide minimal instances, but in general not wanting to go outside their well tested workflow. For example, here someone asks for a change to make it easy for them to build Docker images, which was turned down. While I could be misinterpreting it, the way I'm reading it this was turned down on principle. I don't think they'll make something like this easy on us.
Given the lack of tarball/img/whatever, I think you were right earlier - the only option is to work from the iso. That was the strategy I used for CRUX which also broke. Not ideal, but if that's the best we've got and people keep asking for Solus, that might be what we have to do.
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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An 'Indie' distro that developed the Budgie Desktop enviroment. It has its own package manager, and some other nice ideas. But if i recall - the lead Developer - moved on to other projects.
There is a Ubuntu Budgie variant - that lets you get the DE on Ubuntu, or just test it out via a Live USB. I cant really say anything more about any 'outstanding' features - it has been a few years since i last used it, and Several months since i have even heard about it in any of the subs.
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 think there are basically two valid reasons for one to use Linux (or BSD):
- Philosophical reasons.
- Technical need.
It sounds like you fell into the first category and realized that your philosophical considerations don't supersede or win out over your technical needs. That's totally fine. There's nothing wrong with using Windows or MacOS. I personally use both alongside my Linux systems.
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>Seriously, Linux get your shit together. It's a great custom OS but it's a shit out of the box experience and I'm frankly fucking done with it.
Linux distributions are primarily community driven. The exceptions would be distributions like SUSE (not OpenSUSE), RHEL, and even Ubuntu with Canonical's support services. Some distributions are far more polished than others, e.g., OpenSUSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu. You'll notice that those three correspond to commercial counterparts (OpenSUSE is supported by SUSE, Fedora by Red Hat/IBM, and Ubuntu by Canonical). My point is that Linux has it together in certain applications (workstations, enterprise, IoT, servers, etc.) while still growing in others (desktop).
Speaking from personal experience, the best out-of-box experience I've had was with Solus. If you're still interested in trying out Linux on the desktop, I'd recommend giving Solus a go.
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
at the moment Solus uses their own package manager called 'eopkg'. they do not have a very big repository but some popular software are available.
its a stable yet rolling release distro and wont break like you think it will.
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>I don't know how to and where can I find it xD
their help center of course.
Solus is super stable despite being a rolling release distro and at least for my purposes just works. I've used it for nearly 3 years as my daily driver and haven't had any issues.
You should try Solus:
Polished, lightning fast, very well curated by a small but competent team of developers and by a dedicated community.
Rolling release with updates once a week.
Four desktop environments: Budgie (their own development), Plasma (KDE), Mate, Gnome
You could try restoring the panel defaults.
Note: This will of course require you to set it up to your liking again after that.
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/
I would recommend a distro where you don't need the terminal much. I started with Arch and quickly burnt out because it's very "from scratch". I then picked up Solus and had a blast before deciding to move to other distros. Distros with an app for package management will be good, so: Ubuntu, Manjaro, Pop!_OS...but I liked Solus the most.
>It seems to me like clear linux is just fedora on steroid because both of em use gnome 40 but clear linux is CELARLY faster.
Just to clarify, Clear is not based on Fedora or things like that. It's a distro made from scratch
>They're awesome but my internet speed and hardware isn’t sufficient for a rolling release distro
Clear is also a Rolling Release Distro.
>So the question is should I use Clear Linux as a daily driver on my main device? It also supports rpm and flatpack.
That's a difficult question. Strictly speaking, Clear is not a general-purpose distro, so it's possible you might find some inconsistencies or some trouble while using the desktop. However, if you are willing to explore the SO and deal with those random issues, then you can give it a try.
I think you should try Solus. That has to be one of the fastest general-purpose distros out there. Personally, Solus is the fastest distro I have ever tried, I run the KDE version of solus in a laptop with similar specs to your PC, and it is incredibly fast.
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
Have a look at Solus:
It's such a good Linux OS for home computing, lightning fast, really well curated and with a very active community behind it.
I've left Windows where it belongs and have been using Linux for about 7 - 8 years now, Solus has stopped me from distro hopping. I'm running the Budgie DE, but they also have three others worth a look at.
Try it!
Hey, great machine!
You could give SOLUS a try, one of the smoothest Linux operating systems for home computing around.
Just follow their guidelines to create a live USB drive to try it out without having to wipe the installation on your laptop's main drive.
I have been using SOLUS for years now, installed it or helped installing it on several different laptops, mainly Thinkpads, and never looked back.
It's very fast and responsive, it's got an incredibly helpful bunch of developers and a great community behind it and it's just fun to work with.
And you don't have to be a computer expert to use it:
To migrate your data, the easiest way is to back it up to an external drive. You should do this regularly even if you don't plan on switching your system. Drives break, computers get stolen, fires happen.
I wouldn't recommend an Arch-based distro if you're not already comfortable with vanilla Arch.
elementary OS is pretty light on resources. I've installed it on old/weak computers and was pleasantly surprised at how well it was working as I sure didn't expect it. It doesn't ship with snap by default, only Flatpak.
Solus uses its own package manager: eopkg.
Fedora doesn't ship proprietary software by default (except what's needed for compatibility), but you can very easily get them by enabling the RPMFusion. You're more or less expected to enable this repo anyway (it packages media codecs as well as tons of software that the Fedora team doesn't want to include but which a regular user will need).
There is a way to install Debian with proprietary drivers enabled. But Debian is not recommended for gaming.
As far as security and privacy are concerned, they're all virtually identical (I can't really say for Solus, I have no idea).
Hi there,
you should check SOLUS' https://getsol.us/help-center/home/.
A lot of our questions are answered there.
The Help Center deals with dual boot situations on different pages but you could check these https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/
or these https://getsol.us/articles/installation/
After reading your way through you could also try YouTube, you'd probably find quite a few tutorials there.
Good luck! And have fun exploring!
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/
Budgie's great. You should check out Solus, the distro that Budgie was developed for. I just installed it on my new SSD to get off Win7 and have had an almost-seamless experience. It's also got the advantage of being absolutely beautiful out-of-the-box.
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/
First day has never been easier. My decision to switch 20 years ago was based on ethics which compelled me to endure the struggle. 20 years later, there is no struggle. Recently I demonstrated the Solus bootmedia/installer to a family member and they instantly decided to switch. I tried showing them the "day to day" such as finding and installing new apps from the curated repositories, and they were like, "yeah yeah, I get it. Gimme."
Second day is finding the names of free apps you need. There is no shortage of recommended "app alternatives" listed on blogs and forums.
Every day after that is cake.
I think your CPU might be at fault.
I have GTX 1070 and i7-7700k, and I don't get any stutter...and I'm playing on Linux (Solus, GNOME edition) through a compatibility layer (Proton) which translates DirertX11 to Vulkan (there's no native Linux version of this game) and that always comes with a small performance penalty.
Note that I only played it for a few minutes (I bought the game specifically to play it in local coop with a friend, so far I only booted it up to see how it runs) so I dunno if maybe it gets worse in the later areas or what.
Alternatively, maybe it's an issue with the drivers? Try updating them If you haven't done that.
Also, the game supports split screen coop, so you can play the game with her locally.
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/
Try Solus 4 iso (from usb drive). I successfully booted it on one laptop/tablet which is also said to have 32bit UEFI. Here you can find guide how to put it on usb and boot it: https://getsol.us/articles/installation/preparing-to-install/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.
According to their roadmap, they're aiming to public alpha builds of Budgie 11 on August. As the other user said, the move to Qt was cancelled and they're going to use GTK4, but they're still moving away from the GNOME stack, although they'll still include their applications (e.g., Nautilus) by default.
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).
Solus MATE with the LTS kernel (4.9.150) would probably fit their needs. Get the iso from getsol.us/download and have them try it out.
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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
>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.
If there are no issues I'd prefer to setup someone with a Solus box. Unfortunately Solus can be hit or miss depending on the hardware and your needs. So as long as it works out of the box for what you need, it should be a pretty stable setup I think.
I am a bit worried about its future since Budgie was merged under Solus and departure of the guy who was the heart of Solus. The current team seems absolutely competent (u/JoshStrobl) and I wish them well and I cheer for Budgie 100%... but I am worried it will affect the development since Solus (and Budgie) very much hangs on a couple of guys.
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
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.
"When I boot Solus, it shows me a blank screen for a while, after which it asks for my login, then I put the password and I get a blank screen again; after waiting a while, I get this screen."
Sinceramente, l'unica soluzione che conosco è reinstallare il sistema operativo, altrimenti, prova a seguire i passaggi nel link sotto:
Use a distribution like getsol.us where you can get Nvidia drivers installed quickly, then use something like Lutris to play games.
Protondb.com and Lutris.net to see how games play. There are a *lot* of games that already work very smoothly on Linux.
Best distro I've ever used, and have been for years.
Please consider donating to the project on OpenCollective as mentioned in the blog post: https://getsol.us/2021/05/29/funding-solus-development/
I donate because I want to see Solus succeed. They have achieved so much with such a small team.