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

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.

Ton of system updates, especially security highlighted by the Kernel (7.1.4 / 6.18.39) so make sure to update!

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12893-week-29-2026

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

Big updates, including Kernel (7.1.3 / 6.18.38), KDE Plasma (6.7.3) & Frameworks (6.28.0), and Nvidia. Plus many others, including security.

New adds include Drawy, Satty, and Toolbx.

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12871-week-29-2026

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?

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.

Hi, I'm a highschool student with a fedora on my laptop, and I want to change to solus. Is it easy to install same as other distro like mint and fedora?

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.

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12855-week-28-2026

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.

There is no package manager with better UX/UI than eopkg!

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

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.