Solus 4.1 Released

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 🙂

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?

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?

lekkerlinux

adurante Very true, I must have had a uncommon bad experience with Manjaro last year. After installing Manjaro XFCE, I had an update of 1 GIG and then a lot of programs broke because of some dependency program.

When I installed Solus this week, most of the programs were already updated and the Wi-Fi worked great too, only had a small update after the install.

I mostly used Zorin since 2013 and it's so easy to use but have gotten slower and slower on my desktop PC.

Solus with MATE works much better.

robgriff444

adurante My experience with Manjaro was expect failures coz the leaders let out updates and then went out for a beer, and then all the users would document 50 different problems all over the forum and shout at anyone who began asking 'what's this?' and say the usual linux stuff - 'you should know, you should have read everything on all the forums', even if it's fragmented etc. It's the only one I left with a temper!

Renard

lekkerlinux 🙂 Great choice!

Solus MATE works well on both old and new hardware.

Welcome to Solus!

PrimeSuspect

lekkerlinux Zorin Core with Gnome does drag although 15.1 is better. Worth knowing though that Zorin Lite will run with Compiz & Emerald added so you can end up with a faster system plus all the glitz. Although....... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/23/bold-prediction-kde-will-steal-the-lightweight-linux-desktop-crown-in-2020/#1aa8992626d2

lekkerlinux

robgriff444 I had that happen to me and it's funny looking back on it now.

Not very funny when it happened!

PrimeSuspect

robgriff444 Pretty much anything following this type of release path will break with updates at some point no matter what the shills would have you believe. Plenty of users are prepared for this and either follow their own update schedule to minimize the risk or are able to deal with the mess after it happens. You’re right too about the forums where users are expected to have scanned a thousand posts for a solution before asking for it themselves. From my experience Solus is one of the more stable distros available especially for new Linux users. If folks don’t need too much additional software then one of the more user friendly Gentoo based ditros such as Sabayon or Calculate are highly unlikely to ever break. Just be prepared to have your packed lunch while a new install of Sabayon updates. 😃 ROSA is also unbreakable.

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