r/SolusProject

More security updates for the kernels! Our package manager eopkg also received optimization updates. Plus many other package and security updates!

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More Info: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12711-week-20-2026

I am currently running EndeavousOS but am intrigued by Solus. Since I am used to the aur and yay, I see that installing software is a bit different on Solus.

One requirement I have to have is Tailscale as my whole network (windows and Linux machines, mobiles, etc) all use it. I see one post here but it is three years old and seems a bit inconclusive.

Does Solus support Tailscale? Does the standard curl command on their site work? I just want to double check before wiping a machine and trying out the distro.

Thanks!

I want a stable distro which has fast boot speed and it just works. I've heard that tumbleweed has some issues with Nvidia GPUs and more prone to breakage. I tried Solus live iso and I really liked it. Startup was more polished than fedora. It seemed like a really good ​contender for daily usage but I've heard that solus also has some disadvantages like smaller repository and no snapshots, so I'm kinda conflicted. If there's any better option than these, I'd like to know about them as well.

Please help me out.

Hi,

I've noticed that the fingerprint sensor doesn't work on my Lenovo IdeaPad, while it worked on any other distro I've tried so far.

For me it's just a minor issue, because I use the fingerprint sensor to log in from lock screen only. I definitely don't want it to be like on Fedora where suddenly everything had to be done with fingerprints (Log in, updating, lock screen, etc.).

OS: Solus Gnome Edition

Fingerprint sensor: Goodix

Gnome Settings mentions something about Elan and MOC, but iirc Elan is a different manufacturer. So if anyone has a clue to solve this problem, let me know. Thanks in advance.

Last but not least: Thanks to the Solus Team for providing such a wonderful distro. Recurrent donation: done!

Updates for the kernels are live for sync for the final mitigation of Dirty Frag. Please update your systems!

Bonjour la communauté.

C'est une question d'un utilisateur français encore peu familier avec Linux, juste quelques mois avec zorin 16 sur un laptop.

Avant de mobiliser quelque IA, j'appelle d'éventuels conseils de personnes physiques pour faciliter la conversion.

Pour cette nouvelle installation, je dispose d'un mini pc avec 16 go de RAM ddr4 et un Ryzen 7 5825U et d'un Ssdnow de 1To.

Je souhaiterai installer Solus Plasma (ou Budgie) avec le noyau 7 de Linux en double boot avec Windows 11 déjà opérationnel.

Je souhaiterai une autre partition commune entre Windows et Solus.

Je n'ai pas bien compris comment se fait le choix entre Lts ou le noyau Linux actuel ? 

Dois-je attendre la prochaine version ou utiliser l'iso 4.9 et faire les mises à jour ? 

Avez-vous vous un lien pour me guider sur l'installation en double boot ? 

Y a t-il des risques pour l'une ou l'autre des partitions lors de mises à jour ? Il va de soi que je clonerai la partition de Windows.

Merci de votre attention.

Salutations de France.

Hi. I have a machine with a 4060 Nvidia card, currently running Ubuntu, but I'd like to try Solus again. (I used it before the big reorganisation a while back)

I think nouveau is crashing it - the normal boot works, but crashes if I open a terminal, the nvidia boot just black screens. Sometimes it boots and when I run the installer there's a "speckled" display of random pixels in a window where Calameres would be (this is why I think it might be nouveau)

It's not about installing the drivers after, I can't get it to reliably boot the install key for 4.9 and run the installer

I've tried removing splash and other options suggested in forum posts. Is there a way to boot it without nouveau, just as a 640x480 VGA boot - I think it will work with actual drivers, but nothing I do seems to disable it so it is stable enough to try installing it. It works fine in Ubuntu, entire system, so I don't think it's a hardware problem.

(I remember from old Solus it did have to have splash taken out and the alternate boot for Nvidia, otherwise it didn't work, but after that with the real drivers, no problem at all.)

Thanks in advance,

Paul.

Updates include Kernels (7.0.5 / 6.18.28) for the DirtyFrag vulnerability and Clear Boot Manager to help with smaller EFI partitions. Plus many others.

New additions are LibrePod (AirPods) and VHS.

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Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12687-week-19-2026

I switched from Budgie to Gnome edition. According to documentation, I should be using the DE's software centers for Nvidia driver installation. On Budgie the two different drivers were clearly labeled as open and proprietary, although the open driver did not have the option for 32bit driver "add-on". Now on gnome, I don't see anything about that. Both packages appear absolutely the same, except that one has 32bit add-ons. I tried both and for each of them vulkaninfo claims proprietary driver package in use. How would I know which is which?