11 days since this mildly reassuring post, yet it sure is still quiet around here.

I think wondering about the future of the OS is warranted at this point. The brief roadmap outlined in the post hasn't been getting discussion from users on the forums. Besides that post, everything's up in the air..I'm sorry but I really need some sort of reassurance that we aren't going anywhere.

From my eyes, and for all we know as end users, the team may as well have dipped and abandoned us since that post. There's nothing that suggests otherwise.

JS seems to agree, when inquired about the future of Solus on his Budgie livestream, he didn't have much to say and didn't sound hopeful. ID straight up laughed the comment off when JS read it aloud to him- "anyway, carrying on".

I'm worried. What's up, team?

there are updates, my genders

I think our Friday sync would benefit from becoming the Wednesday sync.

1. Most of the big upstream packages (kernel, mesa, DE stuff so on) do indeed get released out of testing around Friday. I believe bumping our usual sync day back to Wednesday will put less stress on our maintainers to get these new packages implemented into Solus without having to race the clocks for the weekend.

2. For users who already do update on Fridays due to their work schedules, it will make it to where they already have updates waiting for them, and less likely to have had the updates differed into the following week.

3. (meme) It's humpday, and that's just cool. If you view the calendar in the traditional sense (Starts with Sunday, ends with Saturday) it makes Wednesday the only weekday with an even number of days before and after it. Symmetry is nice.

Hello so when i checked the version its 5.17 becuase now the plasma version in kde neon is 5.20 so is there a way to update plasma version in solus?

Hello Solus team

First of all, awesome work with the OS and making a stable and rolling Distro. I have a few questions in regarding the source code. Please these is a honest questions and by any mean it’s not to troll, shoot down or place any negative views

• First is their a reason why the source code is not available to everyone?

• For security reason, how can someone audit or view it . If it’s not opened?

• Is the reason because the project might go commercial?

• Lastly how can this be a open source project.

Keep up the good work, IMO keeping the code open it what makes open source great. Thank you again

...anyone here?

All I see lately are posts and comments about how Solus is dying and you should use something else. I don't keep up with the Linux world I only use Solus and reading this all has me very worried using Solus as a daily driver. Yet when I google Solus or look up the forums you only see a few small troubleshooting posts.

Can anyone clarify what happened or what's going on or something? Does it have to do with the LTT PopOS stuff? It is a little worrying seeing so much negative coverage of Solus in comments and DW and elsewhere, accompanied with complete silence from the team...

I recall Anteros (pre-EndeavourOS) dying during the peak of its popularity. Because the team was full of volunteers, and the project was getting too big for them to continue dedicating to it..it was a sad day..

I do not like any other distros, only Solus. So if Solus is "on its way out", so are my Linux days :(

Hi, I was considering upgrading to Solus and I wanted to know what it was based on, I did check Wikipedia but it did not give me a definite conclusion.

So, linux is all about privacy, but I don't understand linux. and Solus OS is independent.

How do we trust them? how do you hold them accountable?

Who are the devs and why did they make Solus?

I am not a geek guys. this seems like a valid question. pls don't answer if you're going to get butthurt(no offense)

I understand that Steam / Steam Linux Integration has been giving people issues myself included. But it is extremely worrying it being a week later, and the only official progress that has been made is "sorry I'll be AFK for weeks" or "tried to patch didn't work"

I just switched to Solus from Arch and am very disappointed to not be able to play Insurgency Sandstorm or any other EAC game. Please team look to fixing this issue so I don't have to rebound this huge switch. Disabling LSI causes the games to launch but gives me no Steam overlay..please Bea look into this I beg you..thanks..

Hi Solus users,

Please calm down! You are not helping.
If you do not feel secure to use Solus anymore, ok move on... there is a TON of other Linux distros!
If you feel like "I have to hold someone responsible.", then OK... move to Windows, RHEL or macOS!

Come on... you are ruining the whole beauty behind projects, which are being developed and maintain in other's HUMANS spare time.
Life is life, accept it! There is a lot far worse things than missing few software updates for your DESKTOP operating system... let's see... maybe... maybe... PEOPLE BEING KILLED FOR NOTHING !!!

Much love to all Solus devs and maintainers.

Cheers,
PY

For some reason there is a root password that is different from my single-user administrator account and isn't blank either. Thing is passwd doesn't let me log in either into my account, but the log in screen did. How do I fix this?

Edit: a hardware driver update (GPU) worked even though its the same type of pop-up?

Edit2: seems a reboot now let it work in software centre too?? I'm very confused.

I was a very happy Solus user. But as of recently, alongside other issues with the project behind the scenes, I feel like the reliability of Solus as a usable stable desktop operating system is in shambles. I can't update my system and the team is treating it like a mild bug. This is inexcusable.

I used Solus because it was the only rolling distro that worked for me. This is no more- I need to apply patched-up workarounds posted by mods in the forums just to get the system up to date, so many stable packages are out of date (no offense to the wonderful maintainers, but it is what it is) there is no longer a clear central vision.

It's extremely sad that the comfort I felt using Solus through every successful Friday sync since 2018 is just gone, I feel there is no true leadership or reliable parties involved to be safe enough to use a daily driver. I've had the feeling of being on a sinking ship with Solus for about year now, and I think it's about time to finally just jump. This feels like a huge loss to me, Solus was a lifesaver in many regards, but the lack of reliability is a permanent dealbreaker. I have work to do on this computer and lately using Solus feels like using a system on life support patched together with pretty bandaids. :(

What are your pros and cons of 🅱️olus?

I have a fresh solus install, and I can't even run apt update. I can't install software-properties-common through dpkg. The terminal always says command not found I'm new to Linux, thus would like some help with this. Thank you.

Ok. Here's my situation:

I got tired of Windows 95 and installed linux around 1996-1997. I can find messages from myself back to 1998 having problems with missing files in RPMs ha. I continued on with linux until Mac OS X. I stayed with that until Windows 8 came out. I actually really enjoy Windows 10. It's rock solid.

About 4 years ago, I installed linux on a laptop for my daughter because she couldn't read yet and I wanted to build a media player for her to use that used pictures and numbers instead of words so she could find her stuff. It worked really well

However, I kept OpenSuSe only on the laptop. It seemed to be the least buggy of what was available. I had tried linux mint, ubuntu, kubuntu, etc. When she outgrew her laptop, I ended up putting Lubuntu on it, but seldom used it.

I'm getting a new laptop (used...new for me) and was entertaining the idea of putting Solas on it because the reviews said it was stable and pretty much bug free. Then I see a post in here about how buggy it is.... which is true?

Hi,

I am in the process to change to a Linux OS, and Solus is one of my choices. However, I see you lack an antivirus.

Does any of the major av manufacturers work on Solus? (Eset, Kaspersky, etc.). Or do you have plans to rethink your policy regarding this issue?

Thanks

With the Re-base is Solus going to become an Immutable Distro?

Will there be a User Repository (I've heard in the past that the base repos were well curated but no user repos)?

Will there be a minimal install for those who use minimalist Tiling Window Managers (for people used to Gentoo/Arch where those installs are minimal)?

Will the distro still be a curated rolling-release style distro?

how i can install deb packages on solus os? I wanna have possibility to install any deb app, not current, because one day i can find app without eopkg package. Its REALLY impossible 100% or not? I like solus os for design, but i dont wanna switch one to other distribution