This is my first rolling release. What should I expect happens, or that I need to do with my current 3.9999 Budgie when 4.0 comes out?

    papakanush
    Update your system as you normally would through the software center or if you prefer the command line. You don't need to do anything special to move to Solus 4, it just happens.

      Version numbers for rolling releases are mostly for installation purposes.

      11 days later

      Isn't Solus 4 supposed to be using Qt instead of GTK ?
      Is there any description of what direction the new Solus is going ?
      And what about KDE, is it going to be an official WM eventually (like in 4) ?

      I'm just curious of what future Solus will be, and the path it takes.

      Regards,
      BT

        PerfMonk
        What was reported as using QT was Budgie 11 which was never going to be in Solus 4 anyway. An they're going GTK with Budgie 11 now regardless.

        Plasma is not going to be released with Solus 4

        If we look at:

        eopkg info budgie-desktop
Name                : budgie-desktop, version: 10.5

        But 10.5 isn't actually an officially tagged release yet. There may be some stuff being held back from what will be the official 10.5 release of budgie in Solus 4, I don't know 🤷‍♂️

        Version numbers are just milestones so for example we know gnome 3.30.x that people wont shut up about is coming in Solus 4.1 as explained here https://getsol.us/2018/10/27/in-full-sail/

        I'm sure some are so eager for the latest and greatest of the gnome shit pile who will give Solus a try once 4.1 is out. They know what to keep an ear out for.

        Relevent to future of Solus:
        https://getsol.us/2019/01/14/2019-to-venture-ahead/
        https://getsol.us/solus/roadmap/

        But these are just goals not set in stone time frames, as always with Solus, its ready when its ready.

          Linux world has arrived to Kernel 5.0, Mesa 19.0, GNOME 3.32 - in my humble opinion, Solus 4 shouldn't be released without these very important new improvements.

            and i also hope with default hardware acceleration support in the browsers

            crom5 These are just numbers... There aren't more changes between the kernel 4.20 to 5.0 than there were for version 4.19 to 4.20. And regarding GNOME, it will be upgraded after Solus 4 (for Budgie 10.5.1 / Solus 4.1) as explained on the 2019: To Venture Ahead blog post.

              I've said it so many times before : be patient. Solus 4 will come, Budgie 5 will come, Gnome 5 will come. It won't change the world. You will keep the same fantastic system as all the years before. And I know what I am talking about, I use Solus allready from day 1. It will all become in time.

                Why would we even go from Budgie 10.5 to Budgie 11 to Budgie 5? 😄

                I do not care about the numbers, whatever you name them. I only care about the impatience. That's all.

                  JoshStrobl, maybe we want confuse them, numbers out of sequence and all 🙂
                  I was thinking this morning about the numbers, and why it thrills me to see them roll. I came to a very strange conclusion, that I apparently like downloading large amounts of data and seeing change. This make absolutely no sense, but it's the conclusion that I came to. I mean, I prefer real upgrades that provide bug fixes and new features, but part of me just wants the data to roll.

                  I know it won't be released with Solus 4, but are there any news about the Plasma release ? I feel like it's been a while since I heard anything.

                    Now I start wondering... perhaps there were some guys keeping on asking to Microsoft devs when will Windows 4 be released... after some time they found a way to solve this problem: 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, ...

                    And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And one day a Microsoft Engineer decided to put some order in the version numbers : 7, 8, 8.1 but then some evil users started harassing them again asking when version 9 will be released... As a revenge, he decided version 9 would never be released and now Windows will remain in version 10 forever !

                    So you all who keep on asking when version 4 will be released, do you realize all this mess was caused by you !!!??

                    evert

                    I do not care about the numbers, whatever you name them. I only care about the impatience. That's all.

                    You care about it way more than Core Team does. Turn it down a notch bud.