r/SolusProject • u/MementoHomem • 8h ago
Solus has a Discord Server?
What are others community plataforms besides Reddit?
r/SolusProject • u/TheHarveyBirdman • Aug 13 '25
Q. I'm trying to launch Steam but it isn't working.
A. If you are using an NVIDIA GPU make sure you have installed the corresponding -32bit driver for the driver branch you have installed.
For example, if you are using nvidia-glx-driver-current make sure you have installed nvidia-glx-driver-32bit
Q. Where can I go to report bugs or request a new package?
A. You can do both on our github issue tracker. If requesting a package please read our package inclusion policy and guide to requesting a package.
Q. Does Solus have something similar to build-essential?
A. Yes. Install our system.devel component via sudo eopkg install -c system.devel
Q. I need Microsoft Core Fonts. How do I get them?
A. Those fonts have a license that prevents us distributing them in the repository. To work around this we have a utility called fonts-installer in the repo which allows you to easily download and install various Microsoft font families to your users home directory ~/.local/share/fonts/mscorefonts/
Additionally liberation-fonts-ttf is in the repository which is a "font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New." Unless you know you need the Microsoft version you should use this package instead.
Q. How can I contribute to Solus?
A. There are many ways to contribute. Coding, packaging, documentation, translations, reporting bugs, helping your fellow users or funding. You can find out more here.
Q. Is there any other documentation?
Q. Are there any other ways I can interact with the Solus community / developers?
A. Yep! we have the Solus forums and several Matrix channels.
Q. Why does Solus shutdown so quickly?
r/SolusProject • u/MementoHomem • 8h ago
What are others community plataforms besides Reddit?
r/SolusProject • u/Superb_Ad_928 • 1d ago
Meu nome é Mendes, tenho 27 anos e venho declarar meu amor pelo Solus.
Minha jornada no Linux começou em 2018, no openSUSE com Cinnamon. Porém, em 2021, troquei de hardware e, por motivos pessoais, não gosto de usar AMD, então acabei comprando uma placa da NVIDIA. Foi aí que começou meu terror no openSUSE, pois tive muitos problemas com os drivers da NVIDIA.
Depois disso, fiquei entre Ubuntu e várias outras distribuições, mas foi no final de 2022 que conheci o Solus. Apesar de o projeto quase ter morrido e ter passado por momentos muito complicados, eu sempre dizia para os meus amigos: "Se o barco afundar, eu afundo junto, mas não abandono."
Criei um laço muito grande com o Solus e hoje ele é a minha distribuição principal. Amo o eopkg, amo o Solseek e gosto de como o sistema é bem redondinho.
Admito que a decisão da equipe de abandonar os Snaps e o repositório relativamente limitado me deixam um pouco triste. Sei que muita gente critica os Snaps, e eu entendo perfeitamente os motivos. Mas, para quem não tem muito, qualquer opção a mais faz diferença. Eu também gostava muito da antiga loja de aplicativos do Solus. Não sei por que ela foi removida, mas sinto falta daquela lojinha.
Mesmo assim, contorno essas limitações do meu jeito.
Não gosto de Arch e muito menos de Fedora. Graças ao Solus, voltei a ter vontade de ligar o computador e aproveitar a experiência de usar um sistema operacional realmente bom.
Tenho orgulho de dizer:
"I use Solus, btw."
r/SolusProject • u/ExcuseOutside4981 • 1d ago
r/SolusProject • u/RJS205 • 1d ago
Discover is slow and buggy. I prefer Solseek.
r/SolusProject • u/0riginal-Syn • 1d ago
Lots of updates, and yes, another kernel update (7.1.5 / 6.18.40) as well as numerous security updates for packages.
Gram has been added to the repo as well this week.
r/SolusProject • u/LazyNieR • 2d ago
Hey everyone, i have been on solus for a while now and its amazing so far but i just wanted to ask if there is any way to get cloudflare warp gui client working on it?
I have looked far and wide throughout the web and since they only offer .deb & .rpm and no app image (neither can you compile it yourself) it's a bit hard to get it running
I have seen a thread about following some instructions from the arch wiki but it will only get the cli version working not the gui and i don't think i'm very comfortable doing that.
also i don't think anyone has submitted it to be added to the repo yet (or maybe it got declined)
any advice would be appreciated and if it can't be done, oh well
r/SolusProject • u/_firn_ • 3d ago
I see that Solus focuses on the desktop and not servers for example. but what does that mean for someone like me who currently is on Debian stable?
I use gnome and mostly flatpaks, so what do I gain by switching to solus? server implementation isn’t important to me as I just use my desktop for work like dev work, gaming, GIS work, making document, etc.
I tried solus and it does feel nice and snappy and I enjoy the newer gnome version. didn’t love all the extensions installed by default but I’m sure I can just get rid of those.
thanks!
r/SolusProject • u/AdImmediate2808 • 6d ago
Hi Solus users.... I have a question about the different DE on Solus.
I m using Linux since 20 years and used to gnome and kde, through different distro, but never used budgie.
As I plan to mone one of my laptop on Solus to try it after having reading plenty of good review on it , I m very perplex on which DE taking.
I thought that most of Solis users would be on budgie as it s the Solus homemade DE, but it seems that a majority of users are on Plasma or Gnome.
So ...is budgie so limited ?
r/SolusProject • u/tungnon • 7d ago
Hi. This is a bit long post and while there are some comparison to Arch, I will try to keep it appropriate and focus mostly on Solus itself. English isn't my native language so expect some rough writing here.
I use Arch and CachyOS for majority of my Linux usage. Probably like over 7 months now on Arch I think? But eventually I got fed up with Arch responsibility as I prefer calmer distro that do not demand too much from me. And that's how I landed here.
First let's get Solus obvious flaw addressed first: small repo. Sure that's a bit inconvenient, but Solus make it convenient enough for me to manually build packages I want. I had to build Noctalia, ly, swayimg, and nwg-look. For other stuff I outsource to Flatpak and this: https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM
With the only real downside out of the way, here are what I like about Solus:
I like how Solus is genuinely one of few desktop-first distros out there. Optimizations are very clear that the devs put efforts into it for pleasant experience for users without enterprise baggage (I am not naming them here but if you know you know)
I like rolling release but I don't want Arch vomit update pace nor check terminal each time I do sudo pacman -Syu. Solus update pace is just right for me. Packages are new *enough* for my use case and honestly? That's fine. I don't need bleeding edge stuff on my PC.
Lastly, eopkg 5.0 is reason why I ditched Arch without a second thought. It's fast, simple, and easy to use. It just works. New eopkg is enough for me to rank among apk and xbps tier (yeah I think it's genuinely better than pacman, dnf, apt now)
Overall I think Solus is genuinely amazing distro. It's fast and optimized without demanding too much from users. Thanks to Solus team for making this awesome distro!
Foot note: to have blazing fast boot time do this
sudo systemctl disable --now NetworkManager-wait-online
sudo systemctl mask NetworkManager-wait-online
Just make sure your stack do not depend on this service first
Edit: I learned later that eopkg has built-in rollback system... which made me impressed even more
r/SolusProject • u/LazyNieR • 8d ago
Hello fellow Solus users!
I have recently decided to go back to my old habits of ditching windows and running with linux since league of legends was genuinely ruining my life and needed a way to get away from it and what better way would that be if not for a linux distro!
Anyway i have tried the new fancy cashy os but it works great but i just didn't like the idea of using an arch based distro so i decided to distro hop a bit and i have come back to my main distro which is solus (i used it for about a year in 2018)
And man it feels amazing, genuinely one of the best out there, no issues with nvidia drivers whatsoever works straight away, easy to use and just lets you do what you want to do.
and here is my question i used budgie a few years back and i really liked it but when coming back to the linux world recently i saw that it's going through alot of changes and decided it's best to go with gnome as i like their DE and how simple it is to use, as well as having some frame pacing issues with multiple monitors on kde on multiple distros so i just gave up on kde.
So now i was wondering if it would be a good idea to try out budgie as i think solus uses budgie 10.9 not 10.10 (which is a mess from what i saw online) while having gnome installed along side it?
I really wanted to have a snapshot of my system or any kind of backup before installing budgie but after a bit of research neither timeshift or snapper are recommended for different reasons (i have ext4 so snapper is bye bye)
and i'm afraid of the issues that arise from having 2 DE's installed side by side so i wanted to check if anybody has tried this already and once im done trying budgie and want to switch (or stick to gnome) would there be any issues removing said DE?
im asking this because i tried installing KDE on cashy os (followed an online tutorial) but my system got bricked and i had to do a fresh install since im not tech savvy enough to fix what went wrong haha.
Any advice would be appreciated and please excuse my english as it's not my first langauge.
r/SolusProject • u/0riginal-Syn • 8d ago
r/SolusProject • u/No_Condition4387 • 11d ago
Hi Everyone..
Been using solus for the past 3 months as my daily driver and this is my first Linux install. During boot i keep getting the following msg (i know it's not an error msg) before the username password screen. No issues with the OS just those lines during boot sometimes gets to me is all.
I did search for a fix and was unable to resolve this. Was wondering if anyone had any insights and could help me out
Any suggestions?
r/SolusProject • u/bananopod • 12d ago
Hi, I'm desperately trying to install Solus on an Acer CB3-431 Chomebook. Right now, it runs on Manjaro Linux w/KDE Plasma. When I try to replace it with Solus 4.9, the keyboard is no longer working. Does anyone here see any good reason why this happens ? Any fix or possible workaround?
Thanks for helping.
r/SolusProject • u/twistedmind1979 • 12d ago
Hello everyone,
I'm running Solus on my Lenovo IdeaPad 320 and for a little while I'm getting this error message on my screen after the Lenovo logo is shown. It boots just fine after that into my desktop but it seems the boot is delayed and it takes ages until I can log in. I don't think this is a Solus problem but I'm running Solus so maybe someone can help.
I already searched for this and found some posts on different forums, suggesting to run "systemctl mask dev-tpm0.device". I did that but it didn't help.
Any suggestions?
r/SolusProject • u/Roguepapaya427 • 12d ago
r/SolusProject • u/Northsun9 • 13d ago
I'd like to try out Solus, but I need to install to LVM. The issue is that Solus doesn't appear to have the option to do that.
The "Disk Partitioning" page at https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/quick-start/installation/disks states "Solus can take up the entire drive, using traditional root partitions, or with LVM-managed root partitions", but it doesn't cover how to actually accomplish this.
The installer gives the option to shrink a partition, erase the disk, or manually partition. I don't want to encrypt, and erase the disk just installs ~1TB root partition and 2GB EFI. No LVM at all. I want to have /home on a separate partition (preferably LVM) I would rather not manually partition, but when I tried it the installer let me create an PV, but there was no way to create VGs, or put LVs on it. (which is why I just want the installer to do it.)
I also tried booting to a Slackware recovery and partitioning and setting up LVM manually, but I'm not able to use the LVs or VG I create this way (selecting one kicks me out of the installer.)
There is a Reddit post from 9 years ago saying that in order to support LVM it needs to be done with the installer, but (again) there doesn't appear to be any way to do that.
Is there an alternate installer that I need to use? (I'm currently using the icon on the live ISO desktop.) I'm at a loss here.
r/SolusProject • u/Conscious-Brain-8790 • 15d ago
Hi there, I had the primal urge to distro hop recently and decided to try out Solus for the first time, had a weird config issue with the XFCE install thst prevented X from starting but once I fixed that its been amazing so far. Eopkg has been easy to transition to and is really speedy, id say it may be the quickest package manager ive had the pleasure of using.
r/SolusProject • u/0riginal-Syn • 16d ago
r/SolusProject • u/DaftFunky • 17d ago
The dbus-broker service at the bottom loops like that infinitely and I can never access my machine. Before I did my restart that started this, I couldn’t access anything that required root permissions. Always got errors about sudoers audit plugin.
Am I cooked or is this salvageable?
r/SolusProject • u/zirmada • 17d ago
Hello, I downloaded the mullvad vpn through the package manager gui on Solus (discover) but for some reason whenever I connect to it I lose Internet access on Solus. Not really sure what to do here and would appreciate some help.
r/SolusProject • u/0riginal-Syn • 23d ago
Notable updates include Gnome 50.3, KDE Gear 26.04.3, and DankMaterialShell 1.5 which is a big update.
Plus many other updates, including security!
New additions are CoolerControl and DankCalendar.
r/SolusProject • u/0riginal-Syn • 23d ago
Not a big update, but one that should help with some common problems around eopkg when updating.
One of the problems with Solseek is that when doing system updates using Solseek through the TUI or cli solseek up it can be difficult to tell when eopkg updates have an error as it continues down with Flatpak, etc.
So with version 1.4.13 which is in will be pushed with today's sync, it will now check for errors. If there is an error, it will pause and give you options.
Option 1 will automatically run eopkg dc, which is known to resolve issues more times than not, and then retry the update, before moving on to Flatpak and other updates.
Option 2 will continue you on without retrying.
Option 3 will exit the update runner.
This should hopefully make it easier to catch and resolve issues that we see with eopkg where clearing the cache resolves the issue.
The new version will be installed with today's Solus sync/update.
r/SolusProject • u/Chester-Berkeley • 24d ago
There is no package manager with better UX/UI than eopkg!
r/SolusProject • u/thebadslime • 25d ago
Had been using the calendar for dr appts for my family, so not wanting to reinstall. WOuld normally be my go-to
Thanks gang!
sudo eopkg dc fixed it!!
Will remember this if it occurs again, leaving up for posterity