Solus 4.5 Resilience Released

bubba66

WetGeek
Yeah this thing is Celeron also, however, with this Solus version of XFCE as you say it is like it is made for it.
Now that I have these little niggles sorted out I will be sticking with XFCE on here and the old Sony VAIO that I have.

WetGeek

penny-farthing And I must say that I join the general consensus which enthusiastically welcomes this new version of Solus

I agree with everything you say about Solus Xfce. I'll just be glad the Qogir-Dark theme will affect Vivaldi. That's the application where I spend most of my online time, so it's a significant issue for me.

bubba66

WetGeek

I have been a Vivaldi user for years now and have never seen any issues with dark or light themes affecting it.

Funnily enough the Qogir theme has been my go to since I discovered it, I also use the Qogir dark theme which you can get from themes.vivaldi.net it only really changes background and highlight colours

brent

penny-farthing besides Qogir we have more good selections of NOT SO blacks. Remember Solus's dark Plata days where you couldn't tell one window from the other🙂. Pocillo Dark is nice, so is Arc and Materia--lotsa variations--all Qogir-like in shade but their own themes.
All those would fit in nicely with the sentiments in your post.

penny-farthing And I must say that I join the general consensus which enthusiastically welcomes this new version of Solus: lightness, elegance and fluidity are there (even if I'm sticking with Budgie (for the time being)) and that's quite a performance, especially for a version labelled Beta.

agreed. I'm spending the afternoon with xfce today while Dallas destroys the Packers and the Lions bounce the lousy Rams.
🙂

ard644

Using the kde plasma build of 4.5 for last few days as daily driver. Loved it!
Good work by the team...

WetGeek

bubba66 I have been a Vivaldi user for years now

So have I, on every computer here (even the Windows machine that streams to our TV). I even have an email address, wetgeek@vivaldi.net. But I wasn't aware of themes.vivaldi.net until you mentioned it. I use the dark theme from the Vivaldi settings, but it makes sense to use the Qogir dark theme instead. And I'm betting I'm not the only Vivaldi user here who didn't know that it exists. Thanks for calling that to our attention.

Axios

I use zukitwo-dark from repo has black and grey but the black is not deep.
If your gamma is not proper it can really mess with dark themes and blend it all together making
it look like a big dark blob. (Sometimes it does not take much adj)
I use xgamma-gui-master (But it appears not to be around anymore) because it installed an autostart
anyhows many ways of adjusting it.

Sebastian

Okay, that is interesting info. I will check the mentioned dark themes and gamma setttings.
Usually I turn all dark seems off and switch to light mode because most of the time I have serious troubles with dark themes. It's just one black wall and I can't determine where one window ends and the other starts.

Axios

Sebastian Some those themes are not two-tone and I am like you why they made them that way dont
know but with a darker two-tone and gamma adjust you make them look good.
gamma might do some good on total black but I havent had much luck with them

brent

Axios some in my list (even Zukitre) all have dark and light packages. And some may even have dark titlebar/light window and some light titlebar/dark window variations. It's hard to keep track of. I've just kept my hunt for lighter black backgrounds simple after installing from repo a couple dozen themes: grab one that says '-dark' after it🙂. :

Axios

brent Ya I noticed that after getting back into budgie themes

brent

Axios and some that don't say -dark might be made dark due to system theme set to dark in budgie settings. But some were born to be light and will stay light.
it's crazy sometimes I just have a theme/icon download party and discover. I have not tried dracula (sounds dark🙂). and evopop, faba, moka, all the stuff from back in the day I leave in there. but lots of fun to be had.

Jason5

I was distro hopping for sometime for this Rcom thing, but to be honest I always end up reinstalling Solus Budgie again.

Tried Manjaro, Endeavour OS and Ubuntu. Either same day or next day I was back to Solus and till now running it.

Happy to see about the super new release.

I am not sure whether AMD RX 550 is supported and will make use of ROCM. I wanted to try out stable diffusion (Automatic1111, Easy Diffusion, NKMD stable diffusion) but till now it failed due to no support

Whether it supports or not I am not going to worry as Solus has grown to a new height and it is blazing fast. Now all i need is to stick till the end, which I will.

paracetamol

Just realized... If the main source of news about Solus for you is the official Twitter/X profile, you would not learn about this release from there.

I know Mastodon is now preferred among the OSS types, but has Solus' Twitter account been deprecated?

WetGeek

paracetamol has Solus' Twitter account been deprecated

This is the latest post for the Solus Project account that I can find there:

I suspect that means that it is no longer.

davidjharder

What a great blog post

ssr14

Solus is my favourite distro , run smoothly on my 12 yr old pc :

Axios

ssr14 I liked the core 2 they where good machines and seemly fast for what they where
they would run alot of stuff without issues.
They always just chugged along.
xfce prob a good choice for it.

alveion

ssr14
same here, but on 12 yo laptop.

alex_nvl

alveion hi, tell me how to make Neofetch with an additional line to display information about the system, like in your screenshot?

UPD😮h my God : I think I figured it out myself - you need to install fastfetch via eopkg

Scooter

4.5 is a REALLY solid release, allowing people like me with older machines to enjoy a modern, trouble-free linux experience. I used the distro in around 10 years ago with great success. However, the allure of shiny KDE and Gnome options took me hopping for a long, long time. I consider myself cured with 4.5 Budgie.

I will say that my 6th-gen i5, Nvidia 950 system would not boot with the Nvidia option on the Live CD. So, I booted into the regular option and added the Nvidia drivers using the driver manager.

That's the way to go if you're having problems with the live CD on a similar system.

WetGeek

Scooter I consider myself cured with 4.5 Budgie.

Solus 4.5 Budgie seems to be immensely popular. My torrent server has seeded requests for Budgie at more than twice the rate of any other DE. In fact, I haven't done the math yet, but it's possible that Budgie is beating the other three all put together.

joluveba

Scooter the allure of shiny KDE and Gnome options took me hopping for a long, long time. I consider myself cured with 4.5 Budgie.

Solus has also shiny KDE and Gnome versions! 🙂

WetGeek it's possible that Budgie is beating the other three all put together.

Impressive. I always thought that Budgie was the most popular version of Solus, but not as much.

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