Yep, what @yursan9 said. Unstable is not for the faint of heart, and if you update when we clearly say not to, the chances of you getting support is slim to none. The expectation is that individuals which opt to use unstable are always checking for any message to indicate that they shouldn't update in the #Solus-Dev IRC channel. It is standard practice for us to update the topic when that is the case.

All of that being said, welcome to the unstable club. Thanks for jumping on to help test!

Years ago, I would have been in the unstable camp. Now I like my system to run (mostly by itself).

    Soopyyy

    Hey Soopyy. How can I, as a NON-technician, jump over. Please your advice.
    gr. Evert.

        evert To add the unstable repository:
        sudo eopkg ar Solus https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/unstable/eopkg-index.xml.xz

        After that: sudo eopkg up - to install the updates

        sudo eopkg rr Solus https://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/unstable/eopkg-index.xml.xz - to switch back to the stable repository.

            Junglist
            Hey Junglist. I have just installed it : it works perfectly. Thanks.

              yursan9 I tried to join the solus IRC a few days ago and I had trouble logging in and it seems to have auto-banned me now?
              Edit: never mind, looks to have been just the client I was using.

                  Soopyyy You can't use web client. To access #Solus-Dev channel, you slso need to register your nickname

                      yursan9 Yeah I am trying to do that at the moment with mixed success.

                        It is great to know that the future of Gnome is getting better. It has a reputation of being resource hungry. It is great that the resource reduction is also affecting Budgie, it does well on resources already. Nice to hear KDE is coming along as well. Thanks for the hard work put into making Solus, I have been using it for over a year.

                        I don't know if it's a fair comparison, but with nothing else but htop running, the unstable version running on virtualbox is only using 540 GB RAM compared to my Solus Gnome daily driver has 960 GB RAM (which is still pretty good compared to fedora or debian gnome, both of which were well over 1300 to 1500 GB with just htop running). I do have a couple of eye candy extensions added to my bare metal install, so that may make some difference.

                        Not an extensive check of everything yet, but all appears to running quick and smoothly 😃

                          papakanush

                          the unstable version running on virtualbox is only using 540 GB RAM compared to my Solus Gnome daily driver has 960 GB RAM

                          I'm just a tad concerned though about you using 960GB of RAM. How many Electron apps is that?

                          (One.)

                            Oops, Got my units mixed up, I meant 960 MB. Subtle difference 😅

                            Very slightly different...wait ten or fiveteen years and you'll be right.

                              dbarron Why wait, 1TB of RAM in servers is becoming common. You go the cash we got the tech!

                                Solus GNOME on a few Lenovo 4GB RAM Intel Graphics laptops with all extensions deactivated and no apps running, each always ran at nothing less than 1.8 GB RAM with unpredictably huge CPU spikes. This is not controversial -- very common well-documented problem with GNOME <3.28 on most low-end graphics (laptops, etc), hence people clamoring for >3.30 on Solus for the last several months because of the promised memory improvements from GNOME with >3.30, especially since Solus won't accept zRAM in the repositories, which is the #1 go-to workaround in Ubuntu for the memory problems on <3.30 systems. Well, I switched to unstable as soon as 3.32 was offered, and my Solus GNOME now runs at 1.3 GB with stabilized CPU, and no more graphics hangups and stuttering animations now that my shared video memory has some relief. Very good! Thank you very very much, wonderful devs & maintainers. Now Solus GNOME is finally usable on low-end hardware! Significant improvement.

                                JoshStrobl Some extensions do not work properly in the UNstable version (for example Texttool).

                                    evert Not really sure what that is but generally speaking it is not our responsibility to maintain compatibility with extensions we don't ship or support. Talk to the extension developer.