Another trigger that usysconf will run is linux-driver-management when graphical driver paths are invalidated. These days the job of LDM as a trigger is greatly simplified, as we recently rolled out updates to switch the Solus graphical architecture to use GLVND. This trigger is now responsible for managing early X11 session initialisation for Optimus devices, and managing the X11 configuration for proprietary drivers. Essentially, just installing the correct NVIDIA drivers is enough to invoke the triggers automatically and produce the correct configurations. As with all of our updates, the aim is that it works entirely automatically. The user simply reboots after installing the packages and they’ll be using the right configuration/drivers without having to touch anything. Additionally LDM now provides hardware detection capabilities, which we’ll be extending in Solus 4 to provide hotplug support for offering device drivers to the user.
So if you have nvidia when you update your system it doesn’t bork your install. Now, I don’t have nvidia so if any of your guys are solus users and can rate your experience I would like to know.
Overall, I really like the direction this distro is heading.
I recently tried Solus and I can describe it as the smoothest Linux experience ever with my GTX 970. Everything else I’ve tried (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, etc.) you either have to jump through hoops just to get to the login screen (like having to do nomodeset in Mint), or you start having issues post-install (proprietary drivers did not seem to like Fedora).
I didn’t have any issues with Solus. It worked perfectly in the live USB, and once I got it installed I just went to the driver manager and installed Nvidia drivers and rebooted and everything still worked.
Hope you love it! I’m waiting to do a fresh install because I’m just one of those weirdos who likes fresh installing ALL THE TIME. Seeing the work that’s been done on the driver stacks has just been amazing. I didn’t really think a lot of these things would even exist, and then I’m boggled and think, “Well shit, this solves so many problems!”. Just making life easier in general is definitely one of my favorite parts of using Solus.
I have! It’s not quite there yet, but in the past couple months, it’s gone from a rough and bumpy experience to being nearly polished. I’ve a feeling it may end up becoming my favorite KDE system. I’ve been using Neon for a while now. And of course, Ikey and SunnyFlunk have been teasing us with screenshots and dropping hints from time to time xD
