Solus 4.4 Plasma file name.cer secure boot file mislabeled & dim screen on ISO - energy saving bug on 4k monitor M28U gigabyte display on two desktops it effects while on. also effects the gnome image, the secure boot file is not labeled correctly, it does not have the .cer extension either when using rufus to put it on USB drive. so the bootup does like the file unless its renamed correctly on your USB drive, good thing I don't use DVD media anymore, like DVD-R that would of been a problem, but for others burning to media it might still be a problem. and budgie also doesn't have the .cer file name when using rufus to load this linux onto USB media, I tried two USB drives, and both times, the file is labeled like this on the main drive.
I am also downloading the gnome images of 4.4 and Budgie also to see if it has the correct files with extensions in it. I am going to try and rename it to see if it will load, by on my older desktop. Ok, that worked, when I selected the file solus-enroll. with no ext. to it, then renamed it to an .Cer file, it was able to load it as in these instructions.
https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/quick-start/installation/secure-boot/
again, I tried using rufus-4.1 and Solus-4.4-Plasma.iso to my USB drive but something wrong with the image, or the solus-enroll file, as it was not labeled correctly, and it's not being loaded into the bootup when secure boot is on, has anyone reported this yet? with rufus it asks you if you want to write it with ISO mode, or DD mode, I normally do ISO mode for the USB so I can store other files or for example that .cer file needed renaming in ISO mode from using rufus windows software, but it seems to boot the gnome with both ISO mode, and DD mode writing to the USB drive, the only difference is it seems to not be able to see or load DD mode in A drive letter on windows 11, otherwise maybe the .cer file is only not loaded correctly from ISO mode to the USB drive, I am not sure, or if there is something wrong with the ISO images for 4.4 release, anyone else have any idea, since I already loaded the .cer file, its not prompting me from my older pc to load it again, also note I clear the secure boot and reinstall the secure boot settings in the bios, which doesn't seem to clear the loaded .cer file at all, so far it seems on that older gigabyte desktop maybe its because I got a installed plasma 4.4 installed with the .cer file already, I am not sure why but booting the gnome 4.4 with the DD image mode, I am not getting an prompt to load its .cer file, so I guess that only needed once, or if you maybe switch to opensuse or fedora 38 it might ask you again if you go back to solus but at this point I would be guessing since I never loaded a .cer file on that pc before to night.
it should be labeled as solus-enroll-me.cer certificate but it's not labeled as an .Cer file in at least one 4.4 iso that was built for us to download, otherwise they seem fine, and I was able to load it correctly and install it to my older intel i7 gigabyte desktop, which has secure boot but no TPM device in it, that one has DDR3 memory , my newer pc has a intel i9 processor, and DDR5 memory, in any case, I don't plan on using linux on my newer pc yet.
going to install plasma for now, and then try out the gnome image and budgie 4.4 images next, I am not sure how I feel about mate distro, for me I would of preferred either Pantheon edition of Solus than mate, but anyway I wanted to share with you guys if anyone else noticed that the certificate was not named correctly and its extension was missing, which made it invalid in its iso for Solus-4.4-Plasma.iso, that I just downloaded tonight. if anyone burning that to an DVD or blue-ray disc it would cause a problem, if the file in the iso is not corrected, that's my point in reporting this bug tonight. but if there using an USB drive to run and install it that shouldn't be any problems in just renaming that file, since the built in program doesn't like it without the .cer part of the file, it doesn't read it correctly if it's not labeled right.
by the way my newer pc monitor, and my older pc, I am sharing and switching between htmi 1 mode and displayport on my older pc, its using that, for whatever reason linux on the displayport is able to dim the screen while I am on htmi1 under windows 11, on my Gigabyte monitor, I don't know if that a bug or should be able to do that while I am corrected to my other pc from the same monitor. otherwise, everything is running fine, I don't recall dim screen feature in opensuse tumbleweed or Fedora spins, or Fedora 38 versions I tried them, I don't recall that feature under power management. my monitor is M28U 4k monitor. which is made by gigabyte, and both my pc's have nvidia RTX 3D cards, the linux is using an RTX 2070 card, and my newer pc on windows 11 is running an nvidia rtx 3070 3D card, and I got both pc's connected to the same monitor, I just switching modes between them while I have them both on. when logging into the installed account I created on plasma 4.4 I noticed that unlike opensuse and fedora, there doesn't seem to be any animation loading while it loads the plasma desktop is that normal for solus version, or do I now I to find how to turn it back on, so I know its loading the desktop, opensuse tumbleweed had a light animation type thing right before the desktop, its a small thing, but without it its just a black screen right before it loads, otherwise it seems to be working correctly. and yes, the energy saving features of linux seems to be effecting my other pc, for example that dim screen feature that turn on by default seems to effect my other pc in the shared monitor which I have both desktops connected too, its diming it while I am or was typing on windows 11 here on the forums about that matter, otherwise going to have to play with the new version, so far I like it besides the small stuff that needs fixing.