Solus 4.1 Released

saitam

Hi Solus Team ! Amazing achievement and nice to see that you do not stick to deadlines. I installed Plasma version and everything runs perfectly with a RTX 2070. Plasma works like a charm. Thank you @Girtablulu. Just some tweaking, I prefer the taskbar with symbols, then it looks more like Budgie 😀. And nice wallpaper "Walking in the woods". Looks like the forest where I grew up.

WetGeek

Setting up 3 new VMs for my laptop. Most is going well. The only problem I haven't been able to solve is when trying to add workspaces to the panel in Plasma. Although I was able to do that in the testing version, I haven't discovered any way to do that here, and make them stay.

The panel needs to be edited before anything can be added, and I figured out that part. Then widgets can be added. But it must be kept open for editing or the workspaces disappear. Edit again, and they reappear. Stop editing, or select the "lock widgets" option, and they disappear again.

WetGeek

(Not allowed to edit the post I just made, so I need to reply to it.)

What I was trying to add: Note that this reflects trying to modify a VirtualBox VM. I haven't had a chance to do any installations on hardware yet. And where I said "The panel needs to be edited," I meant to say "The panel needs to be opened for editing".

Nefilim

Thanks for the sneaky and absolutely gorgeous Solus 4.1.
Just enjoyed a very fast and amazingly smooth Budgie installation.
Kudos for the hard work, Solus Team.
I really appreciate Solus, an absolutely marvellous distribution. 👍

hugok

Congratulations Solus team
Thank you all for this amazing OS.
Seeding.....

Renard

🙂 Hey, you almost tempted a hardcore Solus MATE user into downloading and installing Solus Plasma.

I know that the Plasma desktop is one of the most loved desktop environments in Linux (I wouldn't be surprised if large numbers of people are flocking to Solus with the intention of trying it out).

[deleted]

Thank you JoshStrobl & Datadrake for keeping Solus on the right track, thanks to all the awesome people who were involved, in making the release of Solus 4.1 possible, i really appreciate all your hard work!
Thanks to everyone who package software for Solus, i feel very privileged to just update every friday, and get new versions of the software i use and enjoy.

I always follow all the work being done on dev.getsol.us, and continue to be amazed, by how much you guys get done from week to week. Then there is all the work going on in the background, that we will all benefit from later on.

Thank you for maintaining such a brilliant operating system, it is such a joy to use, and i really really like how my pc runs, when Solus is installed on it! 😃

evert

Today, after all the updates, my Gnome worked (as usual) perfectly. Anyway, after a year, I decided that a new clean install would be a good idea. And indeed, it was a good idea. The installation was a piece of cake. But then : again extremely booooooooooooooooooooring. Everything worked AGAIN perfectly. But now seriously : congratulations guys. You have done a pefect job. 😄 😃 😃

picnerd

What has improved now? The error messages during reboot have only increased!
What is the difference now except for blemishes?

DataDrake

picnerd What has improved now? The error messages during reboot have only increased!
What is the difference now except for blemishes?

So instead of reading the blog post which actually answers the questions you are asking, you expect us to summarize it even further and then insult us because you can't be bothered to read for 5-10 minutes? Completely unnecessary.

The number of debug messages at boot has increased because the kernel and systemd are reporting more information than they used to. Not really anything we can do about that. We have already dialed back those messages as far as they go. Disabling them altogether would mean not being able to debug the boot process when it does go wrong.

picnerd Have fun with the patchwork rug that you can't stuff anymore because you lack the manpower. I will deal with BSD.

No one is forcing you to stay here. Throwing a fit on your way out the door isn't productive either. We don't owe you anything, so acting entitled when what we have built doesn't meet your expectations is pointless.

picnerd

Have fun with the patchwork rug that you can't stuff anymore because you lack the manpower. I will deal with BSD
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jujey

i don't want to sound rude but the wallpapers used for the DE example look like you just searched them up on Google Images, prefered the older ones felt idk more professional, anyways thx 4 everything, everything lookin' nice!

JoshStrobl

jujey They're from Pexels, with offers images for creative commons, commercial, no attribution use. We don't exactly have an army of photographers like Apple, Microsoft, or Google that can go out to take images for wallpapers 😛

SOLUSfiddler

DataDrake
Well said! I never understand what people like picnerd are driven by...

SOLUSfiddler

Hi y'all!
Things a-happening!! Fantastic!
Thank you so much for SOLUS, and let me tell you one of many reasons why I am thanking you:
I have a sister who is living with MS. She can still walk and drive a car and do things that are normal to most of us but her balancing capacities and her eyesight have been quite corrupted by her condition.
So, when my brother and I decided to give her a laptop with a big enough screen for her to watch movies on and to have as few problems with her eyesight as possible using it day in day out (we got her a refurbished Thinkpad T530) I decided to install SOLUS on it. My main concern was that she is not a technical kind of person and needs a rock-solid operating system that's both reliable and manageable by a person that has other worries than taking care of her computer.
So, all she has to do is trigger her weekly update and there she goes!
I can tell you that she has become a very happy laptop user, and even though she has no clue as to how and why it all works so well I would like to point out that not only is SHE now very happy with her laptop but I MYSELF am just as happy, and I am very grateful for you guys developing and taking care of the most wonderful operating system that I have tried.
Thank you!

Girtablulu

SOLUSfiddler shit on something to feel better

Renard

It hurts me to see that someone hates Solus.

If it doesn't work the first time, they can re-install it or try another flavour of Solus.

WetGeek

JoshStrobl We don't exactly have an army of photographers

You've got me. Would you like some images of animals at the Seattle Zoo, or scenery in the US Pacific Northwest? If so, should I just upload some to the forum?

jujey

JoshStrobl yeah I understand, but the ones before the update felt like they had way more quality, also I'm loving Solus, it is the perfect Distro for me, I've tried so many others before this one, I really wanted to try Linux and when there was no hope Solus appeared, an actual miracle haha, keep up the amazing work, been using it since 2019.

WetGeek

My earlier post mentions a problem with Plasma, wherein I was unable to add a workspace switcher to the panel, and I made it clear that it was a VM--I hadn't tried to install it on hardware yet. Now I have, and the problem's the same on a hardware machine. Damn shame, because I was really enjoying Plasma, and was ready to change my development machine from Budgie to Plasma, at least until I found some reason to return to Budgie.

I didn't realize I'd find that reason this quickly.

Girtablulu

WetGeek after adding the workplace switcher did you reboot? I just added it on my notebook and it's working after reboot

WetGeek

Girtablulu after adding the workplace switcher did you reboot?

No. I didn't realize it was required. I'll give that a try on my dev machine tomorrow.

I just tried it on my Plasma 4.1 VM, and it's back to the problem I had a while ago: adding workspaces actually adds that many groups of identical workspaces (same contents in each). Rebooting doesn't clear that up.

EDIT: For example, if I change the settings to provide 6 workspaces, I get 6 groups of 6 workspaces. Removing one workspace from one group removes it from all 6 groups. I thought this was fixed, so it may be a regression.

I don't really need the Plasma VM for anything, other than experimenting with it, so if it works correctly on the dev machine tomorrow, I'll be a happy camper.

WetGeek

Girtablulu after adding the workplace switcher did you reboot

I said I'd try it on my dev machine this morning, and now I've done that. The Plasma SSD was still in the machine from my attempts yesterday, so I can't be sure of what steps might have been done before, although all past attempts had been unsuccessful, but I do know it's been rebooted at least once recently.

This morning, I opened the desktop settings, created 8 virtual desktops, and pressed the Accept button. Just ONE group of 8 desktops was created, and now I'm thinking even more seriously about adopting the Plasma edition for daily use on that computer.

It would hurt too much to give up my beloved Budgie altogether, though. I'm going to keep it going in a VM on my laptop for playing games.

EDIT: I'm not sure of the exact steps needed, or the exact order to perform them, but apparently a reboot is needed as part of the process. Just as you suggested yesterday. Thanks again!

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