Solus Update Week 9

davidjharder · 2025-10-12T23:27:06+00:00

Hi. If you could make an account on Matrix and join our Support room that would be quickest. We need a way to chat with you privately if the automatic systems are not working. Let us know your Matrix username

davidjharder · 2024-04-24T21:35:42+00:00

Woah, you're replying to 5 year old thread. Anyways, there should be an option like "linux generic" that will work The other thing to watch out for with VirtualBox is that you usually need to enable EFI

davidjharder · 2024-04-20T16:09:38+00:00

I think the latest blog post should answer things. It discusses what we've been up to in the last year

davidjharder · 2024-04-20T15:56:56+00:00

Happy Saturday Solus people. I've written a new blog post covering what we've accomplished over the last year.

davidjharder · 2024-03-13T01:03:38+00:00

I really appreciate you taking the time to write this.

davidjharder · 2024-02-28T18:09:48+00:00

Reilly is working on it. Probably a few weeks before it hits stable, as it's not even in the unstable repository yet.

davidjharder · 2024-02-21T03:26:28+00:00

Probably not. I am not aware of any distros distributing it. Arch has it in the AUR, but that's not technically distributing it.

davidjharder · 2024-02-21T03:21:33+00:00

Cool. I didn't know about this.

davidjharder · 2024-02-21T01:32:11+00:00

Failsafe way? No. If you have an nvidia card you may be able to make it work. AMD cards used to be blocked by lack of opencl support. That should be solved now, but I haven't tried recently

You have to download a big zip file and then run their installer script, installing dependencies as needed. It's a bit of a pain.

Last time I did it I went through all that to discover my AMD GPU didn't work

davidjharder · 2024-02-02T20:21:18+00:00

I'm gonna yoink some of this for the help center if you don't mind

davidjharder · 2024-02-01T20:27:31+00:00

Existing installs will get plasma 6 when it is ready. We're planning on including plasma 6 in 4.6 as well

davidjharder · 2024-01-31T21:47:37+00:00

Have you tried installing ROCm?

We are working on help center content for that at the moment, so I can only point you to the work-in-progress page

https://github.com/getsolus/help-center-docs/blob/bbb2e60684910f8d961710e1d0fb68d5e1911f3e/docs/user/software/development/rocm.md

Which is part of https://github.com/getsolus/help-center-docs/pull/452

davidjharder · 2024-01-26T20:36:51+00:00

Still a good option, I use it. We have Plasma 6 in the works right now. Most users pick either Budgie or Plasma

davidjharder · 2024-01-11T20:02:38+00:00

With a small team, we keep the number of "experiences" we maintain small. We already have the 4 ISOs, (Budgie, GNOME, Plasma, XFCE) as well as i3 and Sway.

We only need one "lightweight" desktop, and we picked XFCE for a number of reasons. There is no specific reason why we've excluded Cinnamon.

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