Josh Strobl's "State of the Budgie: 2024 In Review and Goals for 2025" blog post suggests that Budgie 10.10 (Wayland) will be released this quarter if all goes well, and mentions that testing might be available on Solus:

Solus will have either a testing repo, or otherwise make available eopkg downloads for testing. Since it is a rolling release, they have the luxury of being able to ship it whenever, so they will do it after would-be testers have put it through its paces and we have worked out any issues that'd be considered blockers.

Does the Solus team have a plan in place or in development at this point?

I ask because (1) I am hoping to return to Solus Budgie as a daily driver, but full fractional scaling is critical functionality, and (2) I will be happy to be part of any test group if needed.

My best.

    tomscharbach Does the Solus team have a plan in place or in development at this point?

    Not yet. We have a release happening imminently that has all of our focus. Once that is done, I can start investigating the best way to do this.

        tomscharbach ask because (1) I am hoping to return to Solus Budgie as a daily driver, but full fractional scaling is critical functionality, and (2) I will be happy to be part of any test group if needed.

        If that was your dealbreaker, I understand. I really hope Strobl figures it out because no one outside of KDE has...I use Endeavour Cinnamon as a backup distro and have been trying their Wayland Cinnamon and that go**amned thing is a train wreck. To their credit the Cinnamon devs call it "experimental" but I call it non-functional. Others claim Gnome has not met Wayland halfway yet but that debate is so dense, so mucky, I cannot navigate it at all.
        An Endeavour forum member told me the secret to Cinnamon Wayland sessions is installing the Zen kernel which I'm not even sure we have nor is it something I have time for.

        Based on Cinnamon Wreck, I get the feeling Wayland is going to be pain for everybody. My money is on Strobl & Co. to figure this out for Budgie.

            wayland has been flawless for me both on gnome and plasma for 1-2 years. but then i dont know what fractional scaling is

              Lucien_Lachance wayland has been flawless for me both on gnome and plasma for 1-2 years.

              With normal current kernel? edit: meh, like I said, to murky for me to navigate

                  @Lucien_Lachance brent

                  I used Budgie from 2017, but moved to Plasma in the Spring/Summer of 2022 when I migrated to a 14" laptop. As you may know 1920x1080 14" displays need 150% fractional scaling to be viable. Fractional scaling worked fine on KDE and all was well, although I never liked KDE all that much.

                  Shortly before Solus crashed and burned in late 2022, I started having another, different issue. For whatever reason (I never did figure it out) Microsoft Edge (Flatpak installation) started opening and then immediately closing. I was a few weeks into trying to figure it out (working with the Edge/Flatpak team) but we didn't have time to figure it out before Solus went down.

                  At that point I moved to Kubuntu, which worked fine with respect to both fractional scaling and Edge/Flatpak, although KDE and I aren't a happy marriage. I tried Solus Plasma again in the late 2023 but got nowhere fast on the Edge/Flatpak issue. Tired of KDE, I eventually moved on the LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition), which has the Cinnamon desktop, which works okay with fractional scaling (experimental). I have not had the issues that you report.

                  I installed Budgie on a non-production 14" laptop in early January. So far, Edge/Flatpak has worked steadily, but, of course, the fractional scaling issue reared its head immediately. I've been getting by with text scaling, but I will need fractional scaling for long-term viability.

                  I very much like LMDE 6 (the meld of Debian's stability and security with Mint/Cinnamon's simplicity is as close to "no fuss, no muss, no thrills, no chills" as I've encountered in the years I've used Linux), but I miss Solus and Budgie's elegance. So I am hoping that Josh and the Budgie gang can get fractional scaling working in Budgie.

                  We'll see what happens, I guess.

                      tomscharbach I used Budgie from 2017, but moved to Plasma in the Spring/Summer of 2022

                      Welcome back, Tom! Still workin' on the railroad in your retirement? (Hoping I can be forgiven a brief off-topic excursion to great an old friend.)