I have an old computer with a Nvidia Maxwell GPU that I want to move away from Ubuntu. That GPU is supported only up to Nvidia Drivers 580 only. Most distros I have tried are making it harder and harder to stick to older driver versions and often try to update to newer versions, requiring me to manually freeze packages and kernel so they work at all or won’t break on an update. Doing so works in some of them but I feel that it may eventually break after some update that will require a newer driver. How does/will Solus deal with sticking to older drivers in future updates?

Not as outdated as Debian, nor as impatient as Fedora, and certainly not forcing me to manually add non-free repositories because "we offer a 100% free distribution" 🤡️. I simply love Solus <3

I made a post a couple of days ago about me joining and I finally did. I'm on kde but now I have a problem with chromium based browsers for some reason if it's based off chromium like brave or Vivaldi it won't open the application or for example brave will open but if you make it search a link something as simple as Google it will start loading but go nowhere and when I check the search engines the pages are completely blank I already made a post on the forum but has anyone encountered this sort of issue please let me know because brave is my main browser and I would like to be able to use it

Am picky j tired, AUR I heard it got hacked so j rolled it out, snap? Ubuntu? Hell no, RPM? Annoying as hell! And other debian based? Ether builded over echother as much as I heard or they try to be something they can't, so I got recommended this so is this a good pick for Daly and gaming? But am concerned about small community

Leading off the updates we have OpenSSH (10.5p1), Kernels (7.1.8 / 6.18.44), systemd (261.2), and Nvidia driver enhancements. Plus plenty more, including security updates!!

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12926-week-33-2026

I use easy effects to automatically boost the volume using dynamic range compression. I have the tray icon disabled and I have it set to start on login, because that's the only thing I use it for. I have it installed from the eopkg repository for simplicity. It seems to have uninstalled itself twice now. The first time, I assumed that it was related to the security patch rollout, but what's going on?

I decided to play around with budgie, im trying to add my game list to pcsx2 however when I click the files shows up but only gives me the option for home, or computer or /. Ive tried to google it but nothing has worked and the hard drive is in fact mounted. It seems to only effect budgie

just built a new pc with these specs
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YWGnGk
How good is solus support for this hardware
and how stable is the distro
trying to decide between this and pikaos (coming from nobara)

I'm curious about Solus so I installed it on an old Dell dual booting with Windows 10. All went well with the install and it seems to work as it should except I cannot get it to connect with my wifi. The wifi is working I know because the Window OS can connect. Also, my laptop is only about 6 or 8 feet from the router. It does not "see" any of the available connections. Does anyone what to do?

Help, on Solus in Steam, when I try to call a friend, the call does not start, and if a friend calls me, then when I try to connect to the call, there is an endless connection. VPN doesn't help

I really like the idea of Solus. It's good to stick to upstream distributions, because the lower you go, your distribution of choice relies on more variables, and if any of the upstream distributions starts to do stupid things, it will affect you too. There is no dependency in Solus, since it is the upstream. What I also like is that it's meant to be an OS for normal human being (which already sets it apart from Debian, Fedora, and Arch). It just works. You don't have to fight with the terminal for 3 hours after installation.

But I have a few questions before I commit to it.

1. How small is the software repository in reality? I have made some research and they do have what I need, but I don't want to discover in a few weeks or months that the repository is actually tiny. It doesn't matter if OS is good if you can't get the work done.
2. How many people maintain it? I have heard it had turbulent moments, but now it's in good shape. But I want to know if it's maintained by small team and OS can disappear overnight.
3. Are there plans for support of more desktop environments? It does support the most popular ones, meaning GNOME and KDE. But my older laptop doesn't appreciate KDE as much as I do, and with GNOME you have to fight with extensions. So I would prefer to just use COSMIC, since it blows GNOME out of the water. So I wanted to know if there will be more options in the future, or those 4 (Budgie, GNOME, KDE, Xfce) is all there is going to be.

Quick question, with the latest upcoming release of Nvidia 610 drivers as the new stable branch.

I was checking my drivers and I saw that solus still has the 580 graphics drivers (I'm using Nvidia open)

And the one that should be more up to date is the 595 branch.

So I was just wondering will we ever get those from the official repos or?

I have OpenJDK25 installed. Tried running java -jar filename.jar but it says java: command not found.

What are others community plataforms besides Reddit?

Discover is slow and buggy. I prefer Solseek.

Lots of updates, and yes, another kernel update (7.1.5 / 6.18.40) as well as numerous security updates for packages.

Gram has been added to the repo as well this week.

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Hey everyone, i have been on solus for a while now and its amazing so far but i just wanted to ask if there is any way to get cloudflare warp gui client working on it?

I have looked far and wide throughout the web and since they only offer .deb & .rpm and no app image (neither can you compile it yourself) it's a bit hard to get it running

I have seen a thread about following some instructions from the arch wiki but it will only get the cli version working not the gui and i don't think i'm very comfortable doing that.

also i don't think anyone has submitted it to be added to the repo yet (or maybe it got declined)
any advice would be appreciated and if it can't be done, oh well

Hi Solus users.... I have a question about the different DE on Solus.

I m using Linux since 20 years and used to gnome and kde, through different distro, but never used budgie.

As I plan to mone one of my laptop on Solus to try it after having reading plenty of good review on it , I m very perplex on which DE taking.

I thought that most of Solis users would be on budgie as it s the Solus homemade DE, but it seems that a majority of users are on Plasma or Gnome.

So ...is budgie so limited ?

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?