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.

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                First kernel zen patches, now XFCE. This timeline is very weird 😛

                Congratulations on getting 4.4 out.

                tomscharbach No need to reinstall.

                I just ordered another (newer) Optiplex that will be here on Sunday. I'm going to use it to replace the Windows machine that's currently doing our streaming (and struggling with that). It will have plenty of penguin power (after I install Solus Plasma) to handle the streaming mission and also serve Solus torrents. Those are the only two tasks here that need to run 24/7, so we can hibernate all the other computers when we're not actively using them.

                This will be the first computer here to have 4.4 installed as a clean boot. I'm looking forward to that, even though I know that most are technically on 4.4 already. Are you planning on using a secure boot? I'm undecided as yet, since this computer is only physically available to me. Should I be using it anyway? Is there any advantage that I'm not yet aware of?

                    tomscharbach I reinstalled 4.3 after Josh & Crew took back over late march/april. Been more attentive to cruft and I think will get by with no 4.4 iso install; I haven't tore into this thing like I usually do.
                    That said: great PSA/reminder. I will keep updating by choice.

                    Someone else said it best on ths thread: moved mountains on a short timeline. Out of distrowatch gulag and back on the radar.

                      My luck at this software turmoil FF now mate will have to ponder this for awhile.
                      Prob wont go back to budgie just bad first experience (Yes I know its changed alot)
                      my first gnome experience was not much better.
                      Dont know anything about xfce and Have limited use with plasma so it would prob be plasma
                      I guess.
                      Just Ramblin
                      But congradulations on the hardwork everybody did in short time to get this far.

                        Axios I had (nautilus meltdowns) budgie trust issues for 6 months, I understand you. I used XFCE in a few live iso distros and installed it to hard drive once (MX Linux a couple months): xfce is a nifty DE. you might like it. modest and not flashy like Mate. But modern, unlike Mate.

                        It was solid but my problem was always the OS's XFCE was on top of like deb flavors with 4 package managers, 3 settings managers, multiple everythings (it seemed like) and overkill like that so it was hard to know how to use it. It's strange it's at Solus. I always thought 'this would be an ok DE if all the crap it was on top of was ripped out of it.' I really cannot think of a better place for xfce to be at right now when I think about. 2 cents

                            brent I really dont need plasma to much stuff and gnome to simplistic
                            really budgie and mate fit in the middle for my use (Prob check budgie out again)
                            Whatever they do with mates replacement I would suggest something thats going to be around and active
                            if any concerns in that department I would not use it. (slow developement to)
                            Not going worry about this lenovo another 12months battery will need replaced and its not worth replacing
                            was handy having it.

                                Axios ok gotcha. migrating DE always pita. like goldielocks has to be just right. I am this way too. left W7 for budgie. then had to leave budgie. found cinnamon fedora amazing. then back to solus budgie. my computer life is like a soap opera when I re-read this....
                                edit all this is negligible since I'm not on W anymore. that is beyond soap and into dystopia