How to install Solus in 15 easy steps!

Solus logo with budgie flavor

Solus is an independent, rolling-release distribution based on the Budgie desktop. This Linux distribution is geared to desktop computers and aims to provide users with a cohesive experience. Let’s take a look at how to install it.

Important
I take absolutely NO responsibility of what you do with your machine; use this tutorial as a guide and remember you can possibly cause data loss if you touch things carelessly.

1) Get the image, create media support, boot!

As always you should get the image of the live media to be burned onto a USB or CD or whatever. You can do it by going here. Once done, follow this guide to create a bootable media (USB or CD). Now plug your USB/CD in the computer you want to install Solus on. The next step is to boot from the media support. Power up your computer and press F10 (sometimes it is F11 or F9 or F8, rarely it is something else); if the computer starts the operating system you were too slow and will have to restart, repeat the process until you get the menu. Select from the list the media you created and press enter. In case you are on an EFI system, well it might be a little bit more complicated, search on the Internet for a tutorial for your motherboard so that you can understand better the process (since it is specific). Basically you would have to do the same thing but with EFI enabled.
After booting you will be facing this screen and the live mode will boot.


Conclusions

The installation of Solus feels a bit awkward compared to Ubuntu’s and Fedora’s. It is rather simple and misses the possibility to edit partitions through the installer, delegating the operation to another tool and ultimately to the user.

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