Solus 4.1 Released

polomi

Lucien_Lachance You should partition manually (e.g. using gparted) before running the installer in order to be allowed to created the EFI partition on the disk. Then in the installer you can select to use the whole disk and partition automatically, and it will allow to create the EFI partition there. The installer doesn't handle multi-disks systems very well.

elfprince

polomi , can you explain this again please. Not very clear to me what you mean. Thanks! :-)

polomi

elfprince Sure. Be advised that you will lose data, so make backups. 🙂

Boot the live ISO, and run GParted. Re-create a GPT partition table on your disk, add a 550 MiB fat32 EFI partition and an ext4 partition for the rest, though details don't matter at this point because the installer will overwrite it. Then once you created the partitions, you can run the installer, select this disk as a target, and select to use the whole disk with automatic partitioning. Then in the step where it asks where to put the EFI partition, it will propose to create a new one on that disk.

That's what I had to do in order to have the installer offer to put the EFI partition on the target disk, instead of on some other disk.

Justin

polomi Then once you created the partitions, you can run the installer, select this disk as a target, and select to use the whole disk with automatic partitioning.

You realise automatic partitioning will just wipe all the partitions you just created right?

tobcro

DataDrake Snaps aren't easier than repackaging debs. You have to spend a significant amount of time working with upstream to get them included in the Snap Store, even after managing to build one. If they already exist, maybe. It was a long long time ago that Ikey made that announcement and we were hoping that Snaps would have better integration and selection by now. I can't tell you exactly how we will handle the next chapter of Third-Party's existence, but I can tell you that the build system it relies on is getting nuked from orbit.

Very satisfied with this answer, thank you for taking the time to explain 🙂

polomi

Justin Yes of course (this is why I said though details don't matter at this point because the installer will overwrite it in my explanation).

If I just create a gpt table, and then use automatic partitioning during install, it doesn't allow to create an ESP partition on that drive, instead it will only offer to use the partition of my other drive. I had to go through manual partitioning first and go through the motions of creating some random ones.

nosubway

I decide to eliminate Windows (after 20 years of boring running!) and Ubuntu from my laptop as I tried Solus with live CD. It blows me away. Best OS I'ver tried. Thank You for your great job! I've to learn as much as possibile now.

darknetmatrix

first time on plasma and i like it, well done Solus-team

paulvg

While I've considered myself a diehard Budgie fan - I've been really really enjoying new Plasma edition, so much so that I've gone ahead and installed it on my main box. No regrets.

ryanpcmcquen

Loving the Plasma ISO! I did notice that if I did not attempt to get my comp's location automatically, a kernel panic ensues. The installer works fine if you allow it to get the location automatically.

Yav09

Great! Solus is my favorite Linux distro! 😉 Thanks!

Renard

Yav09 Which flavour of Solus did you decide to go with?

I am using Solus MATE.

Yav09

Renard I went with Budgie. But other editions also look great! I had Plasma installed alongside Budgie desktop and it was pretty good! I also tried i3.

PrimeSuspect

Superb effort with KDE. My effort at a desktop.

GRB

PrimeSuspect Very nice. Clean look and informative. What themes did you use?

Sergio1

JoshStrobl Thank you so much for your work and for hearing our wishes about "MEGAsync" !!!
It just makes Solus the best OS and its team is just super!

Andril

always up for more Solus & Budgie updates

GRB

Are there instructions on how to create a persistent USB to fully test it?

synth-ruiner

GRB persistent USB installs are not supported. running in a VM might be a better alternative for evaluating Solus

PrimeSuspect

GRB The window border theme is “Blueprint”
Application style is “Oxygen”
Plasma style is “Phoenix-light”
Color style is “Penguin”
The system icon theme is “Arc” but the panel icons have been changed individually using icons from the “ACYL” theme.
I used KcolorChooser to match desktop colors with my Conky configs which are customized versions of two provided with MX Linux defaults.
I also did the same to match the background color for Cumulus weather.
The desktop analog clock is as comes standard with the Phoenix-light theme.
I changed the panel clock font to “LCD2”.

https://www.wfonts.com/font/lcd2

lekkerlinux

There are lost of pleasant surprises in Solus, like the swap file being 3.7 GB, instead of the Ubuntu based distros like Zoirn that allocate only 2 GB during installation.

Solus seems more responsive overall. Ubuntu based distro's have been getting slower and slower and was beginning to remind me of Windows.

Oh yeah, the first update didn't break anything like I got with Manjaro last year.

Very good experience thus far.

adurante

lekkerlinux To be fair I think that is considered a right of passage with manjaro. If it doesn't try to eat itself with different dependancies conflicting is it really a true manjaro experience?

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