Solus is a rolling release desktop-oriented Linux distribution. - [Website](https://getsol.us/) - [Source](https://github.com/getsolus) (current) - [Source](https://github.com/solus-project/) (old) - [Forums](https://discuss.getsol.us/) - [Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@Solus) - [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#solus:matrix.org) - IRC - [[Libera.Chat]] `#solus` (new team prefers [[Matrix Chat]]) - [[Solus Workarounds]] # Notability Solus has had a tumultuous history. But as far as desktop-centric Linux distros that work out of the box without a ton of configuration or bloat, I have never seen its equal. Solus has been my primary development OS in a VM since some time after the demise of [[CrunchBang]] in 2013. Before I adopted Solus, I also used [[Haiku]] as my development OS for a time, as well as [[BunsenLabs]] - the community continuation of [[CrunchBang]]. Since 2021 Solus has been my daily driver bare metal operating system on my workstation and desktop computers. In 2025 it graduated to running on my laptop as well. # Philosophy ## Serpent OS / AerynOS The current dev team overlaps considerably with [[AerynOS]]. They plan to eventually "rebase" Solus on top of [[AerynOS]], effectively making it a derivative thereof. It has been a couple of years where they have been juggling both distros. But Solus and [[AerynOS]]'s tooling and entire design are different, so it is still difficult to imagine how this could happen without destroying one or both - at least at this time. - https://discuss.getsol.us/d/10381-aerynos-formerly-serpentos-news/3 Solus continues to be the most stable and least-jank distro I've ever used. And I've used just about all of them. # Tips See also: [[Solus Workarounds]] ## Package Management ### Reverse Dependencies There doesn't seem to be any direct way to view reverse dependencies using `eopkg` but there are a couple of third party apps which may be instructive in building them. - https://github.com/guillotjulien/eopkg-graph - https://github.com/DataDrake/eopkg-deps However, you can also see this list by pretending to uninstall the package. ```sh sudo eopkg remove -n -y $PACKAGE | tail -1 | tr ' ' '\n' | sort ```