Solus 4.3 Released

JoshStrobl

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 4.3, a new Solus 4 “Fortitude” series release. This release delivers new desktop environment updates, software stacks, and hardware enablement!

https://getsol.us/2021/07/11/solus-4-3-released/

Infamous711

JoshStrobl

This update is really good. But I have one tiny concern about the plasma edition of solus. When I installed Solus plasma 4.3 to test the live usb I got that "Hard disk instability error" notification when I got into the live usb. As I already know that this is a plasma bug and that in the next version of 5.22 there is a bugfix for it. But if a new user installs the plasma edition and gets that notification, he/she will think that their hardrive is faulty and will panic. Is there any way to get that bugfix into the plasma edition when it is released so that this confusion doesn't happen.

physicist164

im loving it

Balkatov

physicist164
Fantastic new release. Fast and responsive and very user friendly. Congrats!

RAinb0wStAr9938

physicist164 I really like it too

JoshStrobl

Infamous711 Well, it can't go in the ISO seeing as that is already out. But if there is a patch for it, it is something @Girtablulu will be handling. KDE and Plasma aren't my responsibility.

Infamous711

JoshStrobl

No problem. I hope this gets patched as this will save some headaches for some users.

Oh yeah forgot to say,
Congrats for this awesome release 🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳

sHAKaJaada

JoshStrobl And... when can we expect the release of the 4.4 Budgie-Nemo version? Or if you have a pre-release link...? It would be my pleasure to test it... Thank you.

Girtablulu

Infamous711 I have the update local, just need to find time to push it (which ain't easy at the moment)

brent

LOVE the quality-of-life additions. Exploring now.
Also "Filter out audacious notifications so they do not clutter up Raven."--which button does this?

JoshStrobl

brent None of them. It's part of our filtering system that we have for certain types of Notifications when deciding whether or not to clone them to Raven.

P.S. The Budgie stuff isn't new. People have had that since April 😛

algent

JoshStrobl The cool part is "Packages removed from this release:" which helps what can you remove from your system. I had some of those stuff installed.

brent

JoshStrobl the settings lists seem to get longer everytime I open them so apparently my brain is catching up🙂

Staudey

Party time! 🥳

14 occurrences of my name among the updated packages, and one added Budgie improvement/fix of mine. New record for me 😆

hi_im_kent

Very smooth, I'm loving it

trixon

Happy to see the steady progress and yet another release.

I've had some problem in the past preventing me from using Solus and that relates to building snaps.
Has something changed lately that might make building snaps work?
I'm really interested in getting back to Solus but it's too much work to install & restore if it's known to still be problematic.

Some links to the past:
https://discuss.getsol.us/d/5607-building-snaps-on-solus

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/5849-nftables-loaded-iptables-command-works-on-legacy-iptables-tables

JoshStrobl

I would appreciate if people would keep this discussion to the release itself rather than random support requests. Please create another topic for that. Cleaned up some comments. Thanks.

mw42815

Congrats to the Solus developers for another outstanding release . I just upgraded to 4.3 on my Thinkpad E585 laptop . Everything works great except of course the known Bluetooth bug where you have to suspend and resume in order to have bluetooth start to work . Hope this gets fixed soon. BTW I really like the new default wallpaper . I am using the Budgie DE edition .

Portreve

I just made the plunge and wiped my HP Envy desktop today (using gparted to blow away everything and do a clean GPT partition table) and then I booted up from my new Solus 4.3 flash drive and installed it. It would be an understatement to say I'm very impressed with it. Budgie and Cinnamon are now my two favorite DEs.

Keserg

I don't like messing around with setting up the working environment, but I want it to be pleasant to me. Therefore, I love Budgie. Everything I need is here. No need to install a bunch of addons.

I like the operating system to be fast and not overloaded, simple and at the same time efficient. That's why I love Solus. Thanks for another great release.

ncdivebum

OK, I am going to post this even though I KNOW its a stupid question and already know the answer (since Solus is a "rolling release" model).

If you do a fresh install of v4.3...will you have the exact same system as if you have v4.2 with all updates?

WetGeek

ncdivebum If you do a fresh install of v4.3...will you have the exact same system as if you have v4.2 with all updates?

Yes. I asked that same question a long time ago, and that's the answer I got.

In fact, a few times when I was creating a virtual machine, and a Solus 4.2 .ISO file was handy, I'd start with that. After the installation, a simple update would make it a current 4.3 installation.

tomocafe

ncdivebum As far as packages go, yes. But if any default configurations were changed between, say 4.2 and 4.3, you may have differences in configuration. I hit this a few times as my Solus install is about to hit 5 years old now. Here's an example: