We are proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 4.4 "Harmony"! A lot of hard work has gone into this release from many contributors, and we are glad to finally be able to share it with all of you! Read all about it here!

    TraceyC stickied the discussion .

    (josh writes): "The Budgie edition of Solus now ships with the Nemo file manager by default instead of Nautilus. We decided to make this change as, since our last release, Nautilus has been ported to GTK4 and libadwaita. Because of this, it no longer fits in with the look and feel of the rest of the desktop environment. Additionally, a few features that people relied on were removed without replacement, prompting the desire to find a familiar and feature-rich file manager alternative."

    It's official! And Budgie updates noted.
    Simply awesome to the all involved.
    End of an era for one flavor. Hope you find a viable #4 again.
    New era!

    What you people did in such a short amount of time is truly amazing and impressive.

    Congrats and thank you !

    seanragout "we are working to provide a seamless upgrade path from MATE to Xfce for those users with an existing MATE installation."

    I skimmed to the middle of the deprecation paragraph. missed that. exciting. liked xfce but did not like it on deb. this could be intriguing

        OH Ok duh never mind working a double shift 16 hours I'm barely awake LOL

        brent On a plus note, there's another file manager to fool around in with THUNAR in the future

          I am happy to learn that 4.4 is now available. I plan to do a clean install within the next few days, just to get rid of cruft that has, no doubt, accumulated since I installed 4.3 a couple years ago. Thanks to the team.

          I've been tied up with other things all day, and didn't notice this announcement until now. I'll have the new .ISO files on a torrent server as soon as I can. I did send an email to our family members who are using Solus, and attached the link to the new files. It's gonna make their day, as well.

            Not mentioned in the article, we now support secureboot, just need to import a cert file one first boot, and once enrolled, solus should boot in secure boot.

            WetGeek Just a note: Anyone currently using Solus is (assuming that they have been updating) already using 4.4 Harmony. No need to reinstall. I'm reinstalling because I made a hash of my 4.3 installation during the winter break, and I want to get the cruft out.

                Is it possible to do a repair install with the new ISO ?
                I was already on 4.4 but the last update went wrong and the grub is gone.