r/SolusProject

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?

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

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?

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.