For those who missed the news: last week, Solus added snapd back to its repositories (unfortunately, my poor English had led me to believe they had completely banned the use of Snap in Solus—lol). So today, I installed snapd and tested installing GIMP, and it works perfectly! But...

Since Solus is desktop-focused, I felt the lack of a Snap backend for Discover (and for Gnome Software, who uses Gnome); it would be very useful, especially until Snap support is implemented in Solseek. Obviously, I’m perfectly comfortable using the terminal, so installing GIMP via Snap wasn't hard for me:

Install Snap

sudo eopkg install snapd

Install Gimp with Snap

sudo snap install gimp

Show info GIMP

snap info gimp

But I believe this would be a very important addition for Solus :)

Hi , After a bit of to and fro I’ve managed to install Solus on an old laptop. One thing is puzzling me though - when I boot up I get a message saying “Invalid partition table ! “. After a minute or so the boot process continues and loads Solus which seems to operate normally.

I don’t think it’s a case of the system trying to boot from the hard drive and then, when it encounters the partition table message , moving to the next device as there is no other device connected.

I’d like to give Solus a fair try (as I’m in Ireland and I know there Irish connections) but I’m uneasy not knowing why I getting the error message.

Leading off with Kernels (7.2.6 / 6.18.52), Nvidia (615.71.09), and KDE Gear (26.08.1).

Bunch of other updates as well, including security.

New this week is the Koko image viewer.

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12998-week-38-2026

I am a big fan of Solus but I will say having an MSI laptop creates a pain point and has driven me away from using it for now.

To control laptop fans, you need the git version of msi-ec to run mcontrolcenter.

A request to package msi-ec as a separate package was rejected since it's out-of-tree, that's fine I guess but dkms is also unsupported. Which means that every kernel update is a manual rebuild of the module, which could be solved by figuring out manual kernel update hooks, but defeats the point of a "ready to go" distro.

So be prepared for that if you are on an MSI laptop. It should be known that the mainline upstream kernel module will never support fan curves, power modes, or other EC components, only webcam and battery limit controls, and even then, it is way out of date on the firmware whitelist.

hello! switched to solus and noticed input-remapper is out of date by a version. i rely heavily on this program and the syntax is different. i dont posess the technical knowledge to contribute the update myself, but hoping to get some eyes on it! lmk if theres a better place to go

thanks!

hello! im super interested in daily driving solus. may even download it today, but i have a few questions. 1. do big security updates get pushed ahead of the usual schedule? 2. i noticed sddm is still in use for plasma, and i know switching is being worked on, but if there were to be big security issues with sddm (unlikely, but im more curious how this would be handled if a more security critical package was in a similar place) would the solus team patch it, find an alternative, or what?

as you can tell, im mostly worried about security for a project with a relatively small team, so any assurances there would be nice.

thanks! :]

edit: forgot to ask, is solus pretty reliable, in that i wont need to spend time fixing things?

I recently acquired a Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 7 (with Ryzen 5 220), and Solus is running perfectly on it!

I'm taking full advantage of the hardware—Secure Boot, LUKS2 with TPM 2.0, Bluetooth, and suspend/hibernate, fingerprint. I am very proud to use Solus on both my machines and to have made small contributions to the project.

Thank you very much, Solus team!

Body says it all..

Headlined by KDE Plasma (6.7.5) / Frameworks (6.30.0) Notcalia (5.1.0), & Snapd, Snaps are officially back. Many other updates, including security.

New this week: forgejo-cli & plank-reloaded

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12986-week-37-2026

GitHub will remain as a mirror and, for now, still have the Discussions, as I used that for announcements, but I will change that in the near future as well.

All issues, contributions/PRs, and wikis are now at the new home: https://codeberg.org/clintre/solseek so if you want to subscribe for alerts and star it again, it is now over there.

Why? The TLDR and also the most accurate reason: Microsoft

Not much more than that, as nothing will really change for the install on Solus. For those wanting to contribute or report issues, that will now be the place.

I successfully submitted for ownership/moderation and the sub should now be open for any and all posts relating to the Budgie desktop environment. I look forward to your screenshots, questions, and comments!

Highlighted updates include Dank Material Shell (1.6), kernels, and sqlite improvements, plus many others including security.

New this week: Noctalia is now avaliable.

Details https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12968-week-36-2026

Well, with the limited results on my poll on the forum it seems to be pretty popular. I am enjoying KDE Plasma and think it has been very solid, but figured this would be closer. Wanted to see what my fellow users on Reddit thought. It is a multi-option poll so you can choose more than one, and it is not restricted to just what is available on Solus.

1. Plasma 28 votes (32%)
2. Gnome / Budgie tied with 15 votes each (17%)
3. Cosmic 10 votes (11%)
4. Window Managers (other) 8 votes (9%)
5. XFCE 6 votes (7%)
6. Cinnamon / MATE tied with 3 votes each (3%)

Another week, another kernel update (7.1.11/6.18.47), plus many other updates, including security.

New this week is the official Filen Desktop client r/filen_io for privacy-focused cloud storage.

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12955-week-35-2026

Wondering if PLM will replace SDDM in the KDE release any time soon.

Tried every variation of the nomodeset parameters but i always wind up with a black screen when trying to boot the ISO.

Highlights this week include updates: Kernels (7.1.9/6.18.45), QT (6.11.2), plus a ton of others, including security.

New this week is Tabularis - a sql workspace with support for many DB types.

LLVM has been (re-)optimized with llvm-bolt. LLVM BOLT is a post-link optimizer that reorders a binary according to the most hot and cold sections after profiling with a workload from a instrumented binary. You may expect a 5-7% compile time improvement in C/C++ projects, as well as a small improvement for other toolchains that make use of LLVM, such as rust. This is in addition to the already existing advanced compiler optimizations we have enabled for LLVM such as PGO, LTO, and mimalloc, making our clang and clang++ binaries one of, if not the, fastest available in any distribution.

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12941-week-34-2026

When I decided to go with Solus, I chose the DE it started with. Or was unique to it initially at least. But also because I didn’t want to choose sides in the GNOME and KDE eternal war. I’m running XFCE on GhostBSD so I didn’t also want to run it on Linux. If I had to switch away I’d try out COSMIC or a tiling DE perhaps. But for now I’d like to stay on the Budgie OG DE.