Solus Sails Again! | Not a Linux Guru Guy
In this episode, I check out the all new Solus OS, an original distribution of Linux. In other words, they built their own repositories and is not based on Debian, Arch, Fedora/Red Hat, openSUSE, or any other distribution. Of course for the small crew there, that means a lot of work. It apparently proved almost too much last year as they struggled with keeping their own website up, in large part with the departure of a key developer leaving the project. It ended up causing a lot of speculation about the future of Solus, and major YouTube channels like DistroTube, said from all appearences it was a dead project. But the lead developer returned, and now they are apparently back on track, with a new version of Solus: 4.4.
Now, this video has a specific purpose. I noticed that they have a NVIDIA compatibility mode in the grub boot menu. So I did something a bit unprecedented, at least for my channel, I moved my framework laptop to the living room and used its camera and microphone to record this video for the express purpose of installing Solus on my son's Lenovo Legion desktop gaming computer, which has a dedicated NVIDIA graphics card. I wanted to see if it could install and use the NVIDIA drivers, and the result was . . . I'm afraid you'll have to watch the video to find out how I fared.
At any rate, I failed to go over the preinstalled flatpak and snap, both of which require a setting initiated via a terminal command. Flatpak requires enabling the flathub repository, and snaps require enabling the systemd daemon to work. I also found one strange happening on the keybindings. You'll see what I mean by that. If you watch the video, that is. So don't just stand there or sit there as the case may be, come sailing with me on Solus OS.
Solus OS website:
https://getsol.us/
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