Okay, I'm done. I've been playing with Solus, on and off, for a while now, but I cannot get it to play nice with the other distros I have installed. It updates my bios and efibootmgr every time I run it to put its own bootloader before Refind in the bios and sets its bootloader to run first in efibootmgr. I'm not techie enough to understand how these are connected (if they are at all), I just know I have to a) reset efibootmgr so Refind is first in the boot order, and b) enter the bios on reboot to, again, put Refind first (ahead of Solus).
I find this behaviour really, really annoying. It seems to assume that I either don't have any other distros installed, or, if I do have other distros installed, that I never want to use them again. This might be almost acceptable if it only happened during installation of Solus, but it happens all the time. For me, this is unacceptable. Again, I'm not techie enough to know how to stop it from doing that, or if it's even possible. I've searched through the forums (not exhaustively) but couldn't find any reference to any similar sorts of problems.
Bit of a shame really, because Solus looks quite interesting.
:-(

    mogplus8 Technical or not it seems sad that the only time you have reached out to the forum is to advertise giving up on Solus.
    I don't know if your post was a badly constructed plea for help or just a statement of exasperation. Either way it already sounds like you have made your decision and moved on without bothering to even try asking for help from other Solus users.
    Linux is all about collaboration, none of us can do it all on our own.

        BuzzPCSOS I agree If a person isnt that techi best place to ask is a forum.
        We have some dual booters here and alot people that will try to help others.
        I dont dual boot so not any help with the sometimes persistent issues associated with that
        when setting it up.
        But you made a great point.

          I get what he is saying, does it to me too, for some reason Solus likes to change the boot loader so that it is always first to boot no matter how many times you change the boot order. Does it to me too, don't suppose if anyone would know why or how to correct it?

          Not enough to make me ditch the OS though .... LOL

          "not techie enough." has several distros coexisting nicely on the same disk, all different efi bootloaders, uses refind..
          you are doing better than me 🙂

          Before you take your ball and go home, I personally cured this not with refind or any other 'manager' I just got in the habit of spamming F12 (on a lenovo) on boot then picking the OS. One could say this doesn't solve the problem, but one also say this solves the problem entirely. I stay relatively undistracted waiting a few seconds til spam time,.
          Depending on your machine this may be solved in the efibootmgr; or in the bios. I've seen lots of threads about Solus making itself first. I've seen lots of threads that other distros/bootloaders sandbag Solus. Depends on some factors.

          I have two cloned efi OS's (linux) existing happily. No way would I push that.

          Others might have tips, be patient. In the meantime use the forum search. There are known fixes for this, as I said, depending on circumstance, hardware, etc.

          2 cents

            brent
            "I stay relatively undistracted waiting a few seconds til spam time" - ha ha ha, spam time is a nice way of putting things on planet computer!