Saturday, December 6, 2025

DO NOT Try SOLUS

To start with it does not look like a standard Linux Distribution.
USB image is 3.2GB and boots OK.
To begin with it configures the WiFi OK.
It does not have an entry for EFI to begin with. It ERASED the EFI with FAT32. I went back deleted and made a new EFI ENTRY.
It.Actually it made EXT4 for EFI.
Installation took only 11 minutes and I knew it would not boot. Besides it killed the BIOS entry without EFI for booting.
BIOS flagged me that there is no hard disk to boot. I was so annoyed I made lot of mistakes while making correction but Debian Base warns me.
SOLUS did not flag any warnings.
I know at the end all this SOLUS would come alive since I left /boot entry.
I think this is an independent distribution made by some bone headed guys in Ireland, just luke ZORIN guys.
If SOLUS come alive I would find 10 more of its shortcimings. These guys probably were Unity and Budgie guys who have lately realized their own mistakes and trying to come to the fold of Debian by stealing the work of Debian.
AVOID this distribution by all means.
Since I have not used it in the past and I am going to make an entry in my upcoming book, this SAGA was a necessary but catastrophic encounter.



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