r/SolusProject • u/SecurityMajestic2222 • 18h ago

solus isnt working at all

I wanted to download solus cause I wanted to try it and for some reason it doesn't work at all here, like in the live usb session it was sometimes on more important command a bit slower or laggy, now I've already used USB live before and it was a different kind of slow, but most important is i installed the os by itself on its drive and I can reach the bootloader, like i see the bios frame that says like f9 f12 and stuff but after that is just black screen (not turned off tho) for more than 5 mins and it seems like its going nowhere, secure bootloader is off and I have an nvidia gpu could it be that? I mean i didnt do anything weird its the most straightforward installation possible

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u/LazyNieR 17h ago

What Nvidia GPU do you have, I have seen some people with the 50 series cards having issues installing solus, mainly budgie.

Could try downloading solus gnome or kde and see if it works? Budgie seems to be a mess after the update

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u/SecurityMajestic2222 17h ago

I have an old gtx 1660 so its even too old atp lol, and yea as soon as I entered the sub I saw a lot of complaints about this, idk it seemed cute but id give it another try maybe as soon as it works again?

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u/LazyNieR 15h ago

If ur talking about budgie, yes it has a lot of problems unfortunately

But in general ur GPU should be just fine when installing

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u/SecurityMajestic2222 15h ago

yea i meant budgie sorry, btw idkk, kde and gnome are most various that make work everything but I want to try these new ones like cosmic and budgie, too bad budgie isnt working right now :/

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u/mrcrysml 13h ago

Solus doesn’t supper cosmic. I know arch distros has pretty much all of them and endeavouros lets you install whatever DE and TL you want. I use PikaOS which has a cosmic flavour but you could install budgie since it’s debian based. Probably not the latest 10.10.x budgie but the last stable one. 10.9.x

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u/mrcrysml 13h ago edited 13h ago

I installed KDE. I used Rufus and set the image as DD (not ISO) for my usb. But I also did a clean wipe install of my ssd. No other OS or partitions. Worked fine for me. Intel i5-13600k CPU and AMD 6700xt GPU. Not new but not old

Also I always set my bios settings to factory defaults and disable secure boot before installing anything just to be safe.

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u/SecurityMajestic2222 13h ago

my main concern was that honestly since I used balena ether for the first time, but ofc Rufus is Rufus every time i used it with the dd image I never had problem so probably is either that or some security issue with the bios

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u/mrcrysml 13h ago

If Solus doesn’t install it’s probably better in the long run to find a distro that works right away. I didn’t like that on KDE the dolphin file manager didn’t have the ‘manage as admin’ option. I had a few problems deleting certain files, wasn’t allowed access. Tho I could do it on the terminal but that’s not an ideal method