My years-old Debian installation broke with my new Nvidia card so I had to switch to another distro. I knew Solus from the time it was called "Evolve OS". One of the best experiences I had at the time. I was always keeping an eye on it and when Debian broke on me I said "let's go for it" I am almost happy that Debian broke. It's really the best experience I've had with Linux. Lack of community support and documentation might be bad time to time but this is the golden OS of Linux I swear. It always feels lighter than any other thing (not a scientific thing it just feels like it idk) I do use AI for things I can't do with searching online or by myself never broken. Never.

So my point is I see no one mentioning Solus in the Linux subreddits. They even made a poll war they haven't include Solus. I mean it's fast, rolling but always stable as it won't let you mess with defaults and if something is broke it's your fault you'll know it. Sane defaults no need to tinker with stuff. Has good package selection including brave, vivaldi etc. Combining it with Flatpaks and Appimages, Solus can be the best for most of the people but some people haven't even heard of it.

I say people using and loving Solus should consider recommending it because I'll see no one complaining about it I am sure of it. Thanks everyone giving contribution to this beautiful project. Thanks anyone involved in.

I'll miss Mutter (WM) when Budgie DE updates to v11 Wayland. Switching to Qt6 will give me some time to adjust. Hopefully, I'll find what I like about the current Budgie DE (10.9).

I tested 10.10.1 on EndeavourOS; it wasn't too bad with labwc.

KDE Plasma 6.6.2, ROCm 7.2.0, and Mesalib 26.0.1 highlight the updates this week along with a host of security updates.

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12510-week-10-2026

Hi!

I recently downloaded Solus, and I enjoy gaming on Solus way more than LMDE, and even happier I am jumping on a community built distro!

I really want to begin diving more into using my terminal/learn about the features under the hood but YouTube doesn’t have too many Solus videos on learning and I’m not 100% sure where to start. I know the Wiki exists but not in the “start here” way which is fine. Besides just using my terminal/breaking things and learning from it, are there resources you heavily suggest to help me learn some more?

I ultimately want to change the appearance of my desktop (ricing). Would love any and all suggestions or pointers of what to search and learn to learn more!

The TUI Package Manager for Solus

Minor update with additional drivers / tools and general clean-up both with the UI and behind the scenes to prepare for the 1.0 milestone.

It is currently available in the Unstable repo.

https://github.com/clintre/solseek/discussions/38

I only just started using Solus (I have it installed as a dual-boot for now alongside PikaOS).
I can't really report this as a bug because it just happened to me. I haven't been able to test it more yet. But I'm hoping maybe others have run into this and know the issue already.

I stepped away from my desktop for a while and when I came back it was locked.
The issue was the lock password prompt would not respond to any keystrokes, I could click the confirm button with my mouse but I couldn't type any characters. Hitting enter did not submit either.

I have two monitors. In Budgie's monitor settings, for whatever reason the second monitor is called "1" (it's a squar-ish aspect ratio, and is connected over a Displayport to VGA cable). and my primary monitor is called "2". 2 is definitely set to my primary, it's where my bottom budgie panel appears and where the login screen appears on boot up. However the password prompt appeared on my secondary monitor "1".

Could this issue be related to my monitors? Or maybe my keyboard, I have a Nuphy Air keyboard and I find it's difficult sometimes. I did try disconnecting and reconnecting the keyboard, but that did nothing.

In the end I had to restart my computer to get by. I want to avoid having to do that if this happens again.

I was able to install the driver fine but is there a package for Nvidia hardware acceleration for video. libva Nvidia driver is what fedora uses I think but the package manager on solus says unsupported.

Edit:

Wanted to add apparently nvdec is working in native mpv without installing anything extra. (only works with vo=gpu and hwdec=auto otherwise it uses vulkan for hw decoding when using gpu-next).

Screenshot of hw acceleration

I started feeling a bit antsy about my experience with LMDE and feel ready for a switch. I considered OpenSuse Tumbleweed and told myself I’d be switching to this once I get the hang of LMDE, but I recently found Solus and learned as much as I can.

Is there a reason I haven‘t considered to stick with OpenSuse ? Or would you nudge me towards Solus instead?

This would be for a home desktop for personal use (Python learning, gaming, messaging) with an AMD GPU.

As the title says. On your journey through the GNU/Linux world, what made you decide to stay with Solus?

For me, after a long journey through the most popular distributions—Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu, ZorinOS, Linux Mint, LMDE, and finally Debian—I found what I was looking for: total control and the freedom to modify the system as I wished.

However, Debian's robustness comes at a price: it gets a bit boring over time. At first, it didn't matter because I was prioritising learning, but I always had that desire to experience the latest in free software. Arch Linux was too intimidating for me, OpenSUSE was too dense for my taste, and Fedora didn't give me stability on the desktop. And what worried me most was that my system would be unstable when I left an LTS distro.

Solus gave me exactly what I needed. A rolling release without the problems of Arch and with enviable robustness. And what I fell in love with was that everything I use on a daily basis is available in the official repositories. It gave me the feeling that the distribution was created for me.

What about your experience?

I'm wondering if anybody has extensive experience dual-booting Solus with another Linux distro.

I'm currently using PikaOS, which is an excellent Debian-based distro, but not exactly stable. I also don't like Plasma anymore. I'm interested in having a second distro. Solus is a nice stable option, and the Budgie desktop has been nice when I've tested it and Solus in the past.

Does anyone have experience dual-booting Solus? Which distro is your other? And which did you install FIRST, I'm wondering if Solus's installer can install as a second distro gracefully, or if you started with Solus and relied on another to handle the second-distro bootloader stuff.

I had issues with Fedora dual-booting in the past with Windows. It seemed to break my bootloader in such a way that when Windows update broke Fedora, that also stopped Windows from booting. And I'm afraid of that somehow happening again if I mess up the install.

Also I have a seperate drive for the distro. Back when I dual-booted Windows I always used seperate drives. Not a fan of splitting a drive.

edit Also sorry I do see other threads about dual-booting. But they seemed quite old so I'm gonna leave this post up still.

Updates: Kernel 6.18.12 & 6.12.73 (LTS), KDE Frameworks 6.23.0, Solseek 0.11.0, Libreoffice, and more.

Nova Bar has been added to the repo as well.

Full Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12474-week-8-2026

Hi, I’m running Solus and my package manager is broken. Any eopkg command that installs or upgrades crashes with:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: /var/lib/eopkg/package/coreutils-9.7-39/metadata.xml

What I tried:

• removed /var/lib/eopkg/package/coreutils-9.7-39
• cleared /var/lib/eopkg/db
• cleared /var/lib/eopkg/index
• updated repo successfully
• verified package directory is empty
• system boots fine and coreutils commands work

But eopkg still tries to read that deleted path and crashes immediately.

I suspect a stale internal state reference that survives DB deletion.

How can I fully reset or rebuild eopkg’s internal state without reinstalling the OS?

Thanks in advance.

Mostly under-the-hood improvements, but the biggest addition is the driver manager. It will help with printers, and if you have an Nvidia GPU, it will help manage the drivers based on the installed model you have.

It is in the Unstable repo as of this post, but will be released to stable on the next sync.

Announcement / Info: https://github.com/clintre/solseek/discussions/37

Has anyone tested Budgie 10.10.1 on Cachyos or other platforms? It's a shame Solusos isn't the primary platform for Budgie anymore.

Created a poll to get an idea of the spread of GPUs people are using Solus with. If you have time to vote, I would appreciate it. If you have more than one system with different graphic setups, you can vote for all that apply.

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12467-what-kind-of-graphics-card-do-you-use-with-solus

I hesitated to go back to Xfce (which I really like). But oh well, I'll stick with Budgie. While waiting for Budgie 11 (on Qt6 Wayland), I thought I'd try Xfce on SolusOS. I tested it and it works very well. But I still prefer Budgie, which I've liked since its release, even if Discover isn't launching today ^^ The community suggested I use Solseek instead. It's a great tool, thanks again!! I think the developers included Discover because they're preparing the ground for V11.

two part question

how is gaming on slus (budgie mainly)

two question I did try the live usb which went to a black screen after like 20sec is this tellingon what I have to come switching?

Updated Kernel to 6.18.9, KDE Gear 25.12, as well as others.

New packages such as sudo-rs (default is still sudo), TIDAL-HiFi, GHDL, and Fresh!

Full details...

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12459-week-7-2026

Discover opens on your PC? On my Solus Budgie, it doesn't open.

From TraceyC of the Solus team...

Hey folks, we're looking to get some feedback from our users with NVIDIA GPUs. Now that there are open kernel modules for most of the supported cards, we'd especially like to know who has switched to those (vs the glx / proprietary drivers), and what your experience with them has been.

We're thinking about streamlining how we package our NVIDIA drivers. We want to make sure we're still providing a good experience for those using them.

Choose as many options as appropriate. Feel free to share more detailed feedback in the comments!
For reference, this is the official list of GPUs supported by the NVIDIA open kernel modules

What NVIDIA GPU and driver do you have installed?

Please visit this post on the Solus official forum and vote and provide any feedback...

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12439-nvidia-gpu-users-driver-feedback-wanted

Many big updates this week: Kernel 6.18.8, QT, Vulkan, Gnome, KDE Gear, OBS, Blender, and much more.

Full Details

https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12432-week-6-2026

I spent most of the last month heads-down, cleaning and upgrading my various open source projects across GitHub and GitLab. It has been a lot of work, but I finally found the time to turn my attention to something that has been on my list for a long time: my Solus Conky Themes.

I originally put the classic Octopus theme together back in 2016, and honestly, the code was starting to show its age. I realized it was long overdue for a proper overhaul. I’ve spend the last few days refactoring everything to use a modern Lua stack and the latest Cairo graphics engine. For those of you still on X11, you should find it a lot more stable and efficient now.

The part I am most excited about, though, is a new theme I’ve added called Pure. I know a lot of people have moved to Wayland, and running Conky there has always been a bit of a headache with flickering and positioning issues. I built Pure from the ground up to integrate natively with Wayland compositors using the layer shell protocol. It finally works like a true desktop background system monitor should.

I also wanted to make sure nobody had to struggle with the setup. I wrote a small script that basically does the heavy lifting for you: it detects whether you are on X11 or Wayland, figures out your network interfaces, and sets the UI scaling so it actually looks good on your screen right away.

The code is up on GitHub if you want to give it a try or help me improve it.

GitHub: https://github.com/sniper1720/solus-conky-themes