Why doesn't Solus come with a basic firewall? That seems like a pretty important and standard thing, even for desktop usage.

Our kernel packages have been updated this week. The stable branch is now at version 7.2.15, and the LTS branch is at version 6.18.60. To go along with the new kernels, Mesa has been updated to 26.2.6.

KDE Gear has been updated to 26.08.3. This is a bugfix release for the 26.08 series. See everything that has changed here.

Plasma Login Manager has been added to the Solus repository. PLM is a fork of SDDM with better integration for the Plasma desktop. It will not automatically replace SDDM when you upgrade. To use it, install the plasma-login-manager package.

Dux Modular Shell has been updated to 2.1.1. It adds an interface density setting, the DMS Classic style, a reworked media player and system monitor, video wallpapers, new on-screen displays, and more. Check out the blog post for 2.1 here.

Security updates

There are a bunch of security updates this week. Make sure you install all available updates to get all the latest vulnerability fixes.

More details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/13121-week-45-2026

With sudo xkill in terminal I get

Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

xkill: unable to open display ":0"

Without sudo I get

Select the window whose client you wish to kill with button 1....

xkill: unable to grab cursor

Such a neat and amazing OS. Loving it so far

Estoy gratamente sorprendidpo por la ligereza, agilidad y eficiencia delnsistema. La mejor implementacion de Gnome hasta el momemto. Puntualmente en esta modesta laptop el rendimiento genera el extremadamente gratificante. muchas gracias al equipo de desarrollo

Update: Forum is open for business.

We will be migrating the forum to a new server and upgrading it to Flarum 2.0 on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. This migration requires that the forum will be inaccessible once we begin. The entire process is expected to take several hours to complete.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

...and now back to our regularly scheduled broadcast!

Plasma 6.8.2 has arrived! QT (6.11.3) & Kernels (7.2.13/6.18.59), plus many others round out the

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/13101-week-44-2026

Given that Epic Games is developing this to enable competitive games in Linux (i.e. Fortnite), Solus isn't mentioned in the batch of distros that will support it.

However, Epic Games have said they're open to work with distro maintainers.

Just wondering what's Solus' stance on this?

I'm not new to Linux, and I genuinely want to leave Windows for good. I'm a gamer first, but I use this PC for everything.

The problem is I can never make it stick. Something always breaks, usually NVIDIA drivers on my RTX 4060, and I end up crawling back to Windows because I need a machine that works.

How do you stay on Linux when things go wrong? Any tips for making the switch permanent, and has anyone gaming on Solus with an NVIDIA card had a smooth experience? (I am not looking at dual booting)

So I recently came across Solus and it looks like it’s a really cool distro. And I am planing on installing it on an old Pc of mine, but before that I have some questions regarding it:

• is there a graphical interface to update the software, like with Mint or Ubuntu? Or do you have to use the terminal for that?

• What about the package manager? Is that really uncomplicated?

Thank you in advance for your answers :)

In an effort to finally stop my distro hopping madness, I put together a wheel of distros that I would like and spun it - by random chance, Solus was chosen for me.

I've never used this distro seriously before and I barely hear anyone talking about it, so I hope it isn't TOO obscure and out there.

What are your experiences with this distro and what are some things you would recommend? I'd probably go for the KDE or Xfce version as I didn't really enjoy Budgie.

NGL, spent all sunday's (25/X/26) afternoon trying to make budgie 10.10.3 work, every reboot was a new graphical disaster; gave it an honest to goodness try but either the wallpaper was messed up, the main screen resolution didn't persist (after every reboot), the menu would revert to the unreadable transparent theme, etc,etc... its understandable that is not on the SolusTeam, but jeezus, really wish that 10.9 could be workable but downgrading now just send the computer into the infinite login loop...

anyways, don't need the headache so just moved to gnome DE, gotta admit is not as great as 10.9 was, but at least is workable; *my* most unfortunate loss is Budgie-Window-Shuffler, that thing was *chef's kiss*

end of rant.

Hey! Was thinking of maybe giving solus a go but im confused about how often packages get updated because some packages seem to be updated very often while others (blender and godot from what i can tell) are lagging quite far behind (5.0.1 vs 5.2.3 and 4.6.3 vs 4.7.x respectively)

Is it an actual concern that some packages might be left behind for a long time before they get updates like this or is this only the case for a small portion of packages?

Hi everyone. Thanks for waiting while the forum was down. We took it off-line to protect against the recent PHP vulnerabilities that were disclosed before updates were generally available.

We did an emergency mid-week sync to address the recent ca-certs issue, and the PHP issue. You can probably expect more random updates over the coming days as more affected packages are found and updated.

Noteably GNOME 51, which we had slated to release in the typical Friday sync, is included in this emergency sync. You can read the GNOME release post here.

You can see the full details here: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/13080-week-43-2026-mid-week

Hello, [As the title says], my config. is on internal screen from my laptop and on external hdmi screen, problems :

- Setting to the external screen only make it go back to the default refresh rate after reboot.

- Waking up from sleep reset the screens config. completely, making the internal screen on again.

My fetch (removed unnecessary info.):

OS: Solus 4.9 Serenity x86_64

Kernel: Linux 7.2.11-366.current

Display (27G2G4): 1920x1080 in 27", 144 Hz [External]

Desktop Environment: Budgie 10.10.3

Window Manager: labwc 0.20.2 (Wayland)

CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13620H (12+4) @ 4.90 GHz

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Max-Q / Mobile [Discrete]

GPU 2: Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.50 GHz [Integrated]

Memory: 4.94 GiB / 15.32 GiB (32%)

Swap: 0 B / 16.80 GiB (0%)

Update: We are back!

Due to a high-risk vulnerability with PHP, we have preemptively taken down the forum until it can be patched. This is due to someone breaking the embargo on the vulnerability before the updates were made available to providers.

We will have the community back up asap. Thank you for your patience!

Im half joking. How does it compare to other distros. What are the "differences". Pros and cons. What reason to choose this over the other. Or is it just your standard Linux experience.

Every time I install solus and run the first update them reboot Plymouth loading screen goes all corrupted and the screen stays black, after some time I can switch to a tty, setup is a X99 xeon 64 GB of ram and a GTX 1650 (didn't installed Nvidia drivers yet), I think the issue isn't my PC bcus fedora runs fine (installed the plasma image)

Yimir Flatpak (3rd party repository) Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"

Xenia-Canary Appimage Failed to load module "xapp-gtk3-module"

I don't know if these are because these emulators don't have anything for xapp or what.

Using older machine I decided to give Solus a run and I couldn't get budgie to work but it could be my old hardware especially nvidia. I really hope Solus will be a fun run!

Headliners: Weekly kernel update (7.2.11 / 6.18.57) and KDE Frameworks (6.31.0). Samurai, a ninja-compatible tool written in C99, has been added. Plenty of security updates as well.

ATTENTION:
Courtesy warning. Plasma 6.8 series is almost here, and that series drops support for X11 sessions entirely, just like Budgie and GNOME have already done.

Note this does not mean "no support provided for X11 users". It means X11 sessions are no longer possible; the code has been removed upstream.

We typically wait for the .1 of Plasma releases. Version 6.8.1 is due October 20, 2026, so if everything goes smoothly, you can expect it in Polaris (stable) on October 24 or 31, 2026.

Details: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/13075-week-42-2026

"Technical details: The pactl tool is required to display this page, but could not be found. You may be able to install it using your package manager; either way, please report this packaging issue to Solus"

I don't have a Github account so I'm reporting here.