Solus 4.5 Resilience Released

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.

brent

WetGeek 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.

Is that normal, being the flagship, to have this volume? Or normally did Budgie run just a nose above the others? I'm surprised I always thought Plasma Solus had a huge following as well.

Could DistroWatch be the spike? I don't know. It was a lukewarm review, not a glowing one. I think, if I read the internet chatter correctly, Solus has lot of word-of-mouth buzz lately.

WetGeek

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

Yes, this is the first version that's shown that much disparity. I don't use Budgie myself, except in the VM that I maintain, so I was surprised as well. Maybe it's due to Jesse's review in DistroWatch?

WetGeek

brent Is that normal, being the flagship, to have this volume?

I'm not sure what makes Budgie the Solus "flagship" anymore. I could see that when Budgie was developed by Solus, but not now that it's no different than the other DEs in that respect. I suspect that if Plasma weren't billed as just the DE "for tinkerers" (what nonsense!) that story might be very different.

And no, it's not normal, based on my recent experience with 4.4. I no longer have the figures to examine, but my recollection is that Budgie did well, but nowhere near what I'm seeing today. That's why I made the remark that I did. Of course, the statistics from my server aren't a scientific poll.

The Solus team might have more meaningful results from their own torrent server(s). It would be interesting to see what's happening there.

WetGeek

WetGeek I'm not sure what makes Budgie the Solus "flagship" anymore.

To be perfectly clear, I have nothing at all against Budgie. It was the first DE I used when I originally found Solus, and it was my choice for quite a while. That "flagship" designation was probably what made me choose it back then, but back then it was quite true. Budgie simply doesn't fit my needs anymore. It's the only Solus DE that limits virtual desktops to just 8, and that's the main reason I don't use it.

All the other DEs allow me to work the way I choose to, the way my daily workflow has evolved over the years. And for someone with different requirements, Budgie could well be an ideal DE. I was simply surprised to see such a huge difference when I checked my server. In the past, all four DEs were much closer in that regard.

Axios

I have noticed more chatter about solus and its moved up in distrowatch (If that means anything or not)
and new people asking stuff on forum.
So something got peoples attention. I think every notable upgrade you will see this activity. (people like new versions..lol)

Scooter

I have two overarching reasons why Budgie is popular: KDE's rabid craving for new features sometimes comes at the expense of stability, and Gnome's workflow ain't for everybody.

Budgie is simple yet has a moderate amount of customization available. To my eyes it is prettier than Cinnamon. Yes, I can do more tweaking with KDE, but that's a reason I don't want it on my main machine. Sometimes I gotta accomplish stuff.

For Solus, whatever the DE, I like the limited repos because the taste of the developers overlap my own. And the packages are WAY better quality than most. Insync, Bitwig, and Chrome (for work) is there. I only use Flatpak for XMind and Shortwave. Not bad.

I always flirt with KaOS, a KDE-centric distro. It is on a small SSD here. Usually there comes a wake-after-sleep failure or strange artifacts on the screen for no apparent reason. OpenSuse runs well, but there's really no reason to go through all that these days. Ubuntu 23.10 is a very good release of a Gnome desktop. But I tire of working against the workflow. Since I'm in my 60s I figure my own way of doing things is good enough.

brent

Scooter have two overarching reasons why Budgie is popular: KDE's rabid craving for new features sometimes comes at the expense of stability, and Gnome's workflow ain't for everybody.

the Plasma-refugees-to-Budgie is a novel theory. ~~Usually the Plasma people are pretty crazy about their mixed-up K-packages world🙂~~ I mean crazy about KDE. You could be right.

Scooter Budgie is simple yet has a moderate amount of customization available. To my eyes it is prettier than Cinnamon. Yes, I can do more tweaking with KDE, but that's a reason I don't want it on my main machine. Sometimes I gotta accomplish stuff.

More than 'moderate' to me the deeper you go into all the settings. I also agree Cinnamon a flat out pretty DE but it ain't Budgie by a long shot. I personally share your fear of being gobbled up by KDE then disappeared and finally coming to in a UFO with the others. THat's just me, though.

Scooter For Solus, whatever the DE, I like the limited repos because the taste of the developers overlap my own. And the packages are WAY better quality than most. Insync, Bitwig, and Chrome (for work) is there. I only use Flatpak for XMind and Shortwave. Not bad.

same. I need a couple flatpaks but can make do with our curated stuff just fine.

Scooter I always flirt with KaOS, a KDE-centric distro. It is on a small SSD here. Usually there comes a wake-after-sleep failure or strange artifacts on the screen for no apparent reason. OpenSuse runs well, but there's really no reason to go through all that these days. Ubuntu 23.10 is a very good release of a Gnome desktop. But I tire of working against the workflow. Since I'm in my 60s I figure my own way of doing things is good enough.

for me it was Endeavour (budgie) for the flirt and the separate drive. but splitting time with our own XFCE right now and I like it a lot. PS--your sentiment about gnome often heard around here🙂.

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