vorato I just got Solus Budgie on my laptop today. I love the desktop environment/distribution, but it's starting to become unusable. The system will permanently freeze/hang very often; the only way out is a hard restart.
Solus Budgie is remarkably stable. I've run Budgie on a Dell Optiplex computer for approximately 4 years, and on a Dell Inspiron laptop for two, without a single issue,
Because yours is a new install, and severe problems started immediately after installation, I would triage your issue as follows:
(1) Defective installation. I would take into consideration the possibility that the installation might have been defective and/or files may have been corrupted. The General Troubleshooting page suggests checking for broken packages and reinstalling using this command in the terminal:
sudo eopkg check | grep Broken | awk '{print $4}' | xargs sudo eopkg it --reinstall
After that command has been run**, reboot and see if the issue persists.
(2) Hardware/Driver Issues. If (1) doesn't solve the issue, I would start looking into hardware/driver issues. The easiest way to do this might be to search for issues with your specific laptop (make, model, cpu, gpu, wifi adapter, and so on) on the internet. In general, if a particular make/model has hardware issues on one Linux distro, it will have problems on multiple distros, and you might find something that might point you in the right direction.
We might be able to help with that process if you run the following command in the terminal and report the output to the forum: inxi -Fz That will give us a reasonably good description of your hardware without divulging private information like your IP address.
If your laptop is an older model, I second zmaint's suggestion that you make sure that your BIOS is up to date.
(3) Non-ISO Software. I suspect that one of the reasons that Solus Budgie has been so stable for me is that I run out-of-the-box (adding/removing nothing from the ISO build), with three exceptions: (a) remove Thunderbird, which I don't use, (b) add Zoom/Flatpak, and (c) add Gnome Boxes. Given the care with which Software Center packages are curated by the Solus team, package conflicts (e.g dependency conflicts) are very uncommon, but not entirely unheard of, either. If you are running anything that isn't stock, the problem might originate from something that was added subsequent to installation.
If I had to guess, I'd focus on hardware/driver issues.
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**If you have any problems running the command, of if you run it but you suspect that there might be package issues, you could try a clean reinstallation -- downloading a new Solus Budgie 4.3 ISO onto a USB, running the checksum, and going through the entire installation process all over again. The reason I am suggesting this as an option is that we've had problems with the RIT server for the last few weeks, and it is possible that something didn't download correctly.
