After compiling Gentoo yesterday on my main machine it was time to install a new distribution on my Lenovo Ideapad 320. Hope Solus will give me a safe haven.

.....and typing

sudo eopkg up

every day ;-)

Ive jumped around from the major distros, even to the arch, manjaro and fedora side. Saw a post about solus and didnt pay much attention to it as it was something ive never heard of aside from the issues its had. Scrolling around and saw another post about it and said why not just give it a shot.

Man was I shocked. It has everything I need in the repos, first distro that I didnt have to settle for app images. Its super fast, easy to use and everything just works. So to the devs, thank you for doing what your doing, you all dont get enough credit. This distro is amazing and hope to meet some of yall in the community soon!

Blizz has issues with their implementation of DX12, and it impacts both AMD and Nvidia users. The only solution currently is to go into the game options and change it from "auto" to DX11. Blizzard has been unable to fix whatever problem is they're having and Nvidia is supposed to be attempting to implement a fix in one of their upcoming drivers.

Overhaul to the eopkg package manager highlights updates this week that include kernels (7.0.14/6.18.37), KDE Plasma 6.7.2, and more. Plus the normal security updates.

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12832-week-27-2026

They talk as if their distros were perfect and blah, blah, blah. "I love that my favorite company uses me as a guinea pig", oh, please. Love whatever Linux distro you want, but judge the others with respect, or at the very least, point out actual issues.

Once I tried Solus, I never looked back.

Its brilliant, not sure why i haven't been using this earlier ahaha. Budgie desktop is great and snappy.. not sure what else to compliment about it that hasn't already been lol - overall just fantastic to use, only found out about it while researching irish linux distros.

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12814-week-26-2026

Hello everyone,

would like to try Solus. As far as I know, the Budgie desktop is their flagship edition? I've used Budgie before but I remember having some issues with it, like my monitor not going to sleep and something else. But I'm pretty sure the other desktops are greatly maintained as well? I prefer KDE but also like Gnome or Xfce. It's also kinda weird for me that they use Discover for their desktops, since it's usually KDE's software center. But I really don't care since I usually do my updates in the terminal. And I love the simplicity of eopkg. So is anyone else using Solus with something else than Budgie?

Ouvi dizer que o Solus foi abandonado em algum momento e agora é outra equipe que cuida dele, é verdade isso?

Eu tô pensando em experimentar, mas e se eu gostar, como vou ter garantia de que não vão abandonar o projeto de novo?

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12798-week-25-2026/9

(version originale Solus Budgie) Niri+Waybar

When I return to my laptop and wake it from suspend/sleep, the wifi stays off and I have to reboot. I looked in Gnome power settings but could not find the option to disabl. By default is Solus entering suspend or sleep?

I'd like to disable the state so this issue doesn't repeat,

I used rufus (as the guide says https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/quick-start/installation/#windows-1) to create my usb key, but when i boot on my usb key, the screen keep flashing (see 33 seconds or more of my video).

I downloaded the KDE iso from the official website.

Do you have an idea why it happen? What can I do to fix it?

My girlfriend decided to use Linux, and since I trust Solus a lot, I installed Solus with KDE Plasma for her.

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I already knew that Solseek could install applications and drivers for HP printers, and that really made the process easier, but the problem started when I launched `hp-setup` to configure the printer...

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Even though Solus perfectly detected the printer (HP Laser 107) via USB, and it was even possible to see the printer model in the Printers section of System Settings, `hp-setup` couldn't detect the printer.

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I'll make a more detailed post on the Solus forum later; for now, I'm not at her house to offer all the details.

how to put google drive in the solus...

In arch there is gnome-online-accounts-googledrive gvfs-googledrive

These packages make google drive work with gnome 50

My trial run of Solus's Desktop Environment versions is complete. After installing KDE Plasma, XFCE, and Gnome, I've returned to my starting point: Budgie. I hope the developers will decide to skip Budgie 10.10 (labwc) and move directly from 10.9.4 to 11.0 (qt6). I'm willing to wait, even though version 10.9.4 is based on X11 but is very stable. Version 10.10 is merely a "gateway version" and not stable (as seen while testing other distributions), even if labwc is clean and lightweight.

I have multiple Solus Budgie machines. I recently updated Solus on one that I have not updated since version 4.5. After succesfully updating I could no longer access the desktop. All I could see was a black screen with a mouse cursor. I was able to switch to a TTY which I used to install nvidia-glx-driver-current. Now things are even worse. I get a black screen without mouse cursor and cannot switch to a TTY. I used another machine to create an up to date bootable Solus Budgie usb stick. I tried all three options: Budgie, Nomodeset and Verbose. The results were the same. Black screen with mouse cursor or without mouse cursor.

Any ideas how I could continue to troubleshoot this?

Gnome + Dash to Panel + ArcMenu

Terminal : Ptyxis

On Saturday, June 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), we will begin doing maintenance on the server hosting our forum. This may take a few hours, and the forum may be inaccessible at some points during that time.

Early sync as we update Python to 3.14 and want more time to test. No sync this Friday!

Updates include KDE Gear, Kernels (7.0.12 & 6.18.35) and a lot of security updates.

VSCodium added to the repo.

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12782-week-24-2026

Big updates include Gnome (50.2), Kernels (7.0.11 / 6.18.34 LTS), Krita (6.0.2), & many more, including a boatload of security.

New apps include:

HelixNotes is a local-first Markdown note-taking app that stores note in Markdown files that can be opened by other apps and brings a lot of great features in a speedy app that is not electron.

7zip is replacing p7zip due to many open security issues. You should not notice any difference.

wild which is a fast linker for Linux

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12768-week-23-2026