brent
Not really. It's written in Python, so that should make no difference.
I meanwhile have resinstalled Solus. Tried the provided doflicky and installed both the 64 and 32 bit drivers. Same result.
After new installation of Solus, I tried the driver form nVidias home page. The installation is a nightmare.
stop lightdm,. remove nouveau driver, install gcc, make, dl (ld ?). And voila, it's not in the repo.
For the time being I will use nouveau.