I just want to say that i am always blown away by the level of polishness that Solus provides. Great work. I cannot wait for the XFCE (my DE of choice) to be out of Beta.

    kwanbis I cannot wait for the XFCE (my DE of choice) to be out of Beta.

    you will be disappointed. Nothing will change.
    It is already as stable as if it were not a beta and the version as such will not change

    😉

        Hi, I have a question related to Gnome Software. It always wants me to restart the computer to update the packages. It is quite annoying. Will this behavior change in future?

          Mark12870 Possibly, but I don't know because I don't use Gnome, it's comparable to KDE Discover.
          By default, it wants to restart the system after every update, whether it's necessary or not. You have to turn this off in the settings if you don't want it and use Discover.
          So maybe do some research.
          It's definitely not an eopkg setting. If it is, it comes from the Gnome Software Center.

              why is Solus so cool?
              you guys need to explain this to me, it's not normal at all ... an OS should be buggy and quirky at some stage but not Solus, please fix that

                unclemez I know, I'm also losing patience with these easy hassle-free new system installs. What's up with that?

                    brent I almost lost my temper, it flows, it just flows ... till the the whole is installed, I expected something to make me work a bit but even the after install is heavenly boring ... well, all went dangerously well, which is the highest level satisfaction and anger ever 😃

                      Mark12870 It is upstream decision to make it this way. AFAIK, this is because of flatpak first and immutable priority they have that make gnome software require you to restart before applying updates. Flatpak updates does not require restart.

                      While this is understandably annoying, there is also a benefit. It avoid of the wonkiness (that might happen) when there is DE updates. You can also just use discover if you hate it too much😆.

                      We might get a third software center alternative, if its development matured. cough cosmic cough

                          Axios to me, Cosmic should replace XFCE but that's my feeling, I mean XFCE we know about and both Plasma and Budgie are there already plus the widely known Gnome, Cosmic would be a very good choice as it is actively developed and we still need to discover it more and more and tagging it beta or alpha on Solus ain't a bad move, look XFCE is cool but ... doesn't reflect anything of a modern Linux Desktop, while all other DE are, but, that's my view and consideration, not forcing anything here

                              Mark12870 using gnome software center since yesterday on Solus and it all doing well, at least for searching and installing apps, now i'd like to see how it is going to do with updates

                                EbonJaeger So I have Solus 4.5 xfce beta. I did some few updates just now. Can i assume i'm up to speed? I downloaded the 4.6 update but when trying to install i find that Calamares "replace partition" doesn't really give me that option anymore. It wants to wipe my entire drive, including a large "data" partition where all my stuff resides. And yes, I'm one of those who has multiple linux distros installed. I haven't seen this before? Thanks for any suggestions.

                                    entobill I downloaded the 4.6 update but when trying to install i find that Calamares "replace partition" doesn't really give me that option anymore.

                                    I just did this the other day and another distro lived there too. I made the unallocated space GPT and left it unallocated. I did get the Replace option. but had to Create my 1gb boot and /root partitions in the installer. Calmares sometimes easy, sometimes a thorn in my side.

                                      5 days later

                                      unclemez After using for years Cinnamong, Budgie, and Mate, I tested XFCE and I think is the best. Simple, it works like Windows (where most users come from), please do not replace XFCE.

                                          kwanbis That's cool, but i'd not choose a DE because it behave or remind of windows way to life, but that's me, I love Gnome, Budgie, Plasma and expect to love Cosmic because it is different and more in ad equation with what a modern DE should be, like for real

                                            Umm I'm still showing 4.5 and I have no updates available?