brent In hindsight it was a pretty painful time and it felt like the sky was falling

Yes, the sky was really falling, no updates for months. One day I thought that I had to admit that it was the end of Solus, and had to move on to another distro. Not so easy, many distros feel like a rehash of Ubuntu, Debian, or Arch, at least to me. It was a nice surprise to see Solus reborn from the ashes, receiving updates again, and a new ISO.

    I hardly noticed the time flowing during that period. My Solus Budgie was (and still is) running perfectly for my needs. Also, I was in contact with the Solus Devs, so I knew it was a temporary setback. No sweat.

      elfprince I was in contact with the Solus Devs, so I knew it was a temporary setback. No sweat.

      Indeed, I was following along on Twitter to the Solus Project account. So I knew that all was not lost. And as a temporary backup, I'd installed the excellent Sparky Linux and configured its Plasma DE to an exact match of my Solus Plasma DE. It made the wait for Solus to be revived a bit easier.

          WetGeek Ya I did a search for ya and found you over on the sparky forum during that time
          to try see what was going on...lol
          My point was not really how bad things got but how good they are now and progressing forward.

          More or less for the newcomers we have had alot them show up in forum, since we have seen both sides
          of it we know how things are which may not be apparent to some.

          I guess what brought the post on was in my linux travels I still run across the negatives well not going
          into it you know how it is.

          But its interesting to see every ones point of view and how we stuck around and had faith.

            @elfprince @WetGeek
            Nautilus not only burned itself the ground as a filemanger, it burned my budgie applications down, it made open windows non-functioning, it nuked graphics as well, and it made budgie barely usable and there were no updates for miles and months to improve my maimed duck.
            Everything I reported ^^ was documented by other users re: Nautilus. I wonder why some Budgie users dodged the Nautilus bullet and some did not?
            Neither here nor there.
            @Axios It was hell for me (every day a bare metal install, meet fedora, meet arch etc etc) for the lost productivity but I agree your point was in the ashes, look where we are now, it's incredible. I'm bowled over to be part of the ambitious rebuild. It's a visionary distro and nothing had that magic that is for sure.

              brent I wonder why some Budgie users dodged the Nautilus bullet and some did not?

              Simple, as far as it concerns me. I do not use file managers. Period. I use the terminal to fiddle with file and directory operations. Old habits from Unix and Apple II times. 😄

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                codewizard1975
                CP/M, Xerox 820 PC clones with tape drives and 8" floppies... planning to take over the world with BASIC as a 12 year old. Life wasn't great, but Xerox made it all a little better, lol.

                  I started tearing stuff apart as soon as I figured out what a screwdriver was for maybe 8-9
                  Was in electronics school during that time period tore a couple bank computers apart did have some
                  8" floppies and tapes and drives finally got rid of them. was fun and interesting.
                  Started basic programming on tsr-80...lol

                  7 days later

                  My first computer was a used Commodore VIC-20 that was gifted to me when I was 10. Had a tape drive too so that was a major plus back then.

                  First x86 PC was a 286 with a 287 mathco, 1MB of ram and an unheard of 60MB of storage using 2 drives. It was loud, slow and made the lights flicker, but it rocked Windows 3.0 perfectly. 😄

                    codewizard1975 My first computer was a used Commodore VIC-20

                    Sounds a lot like me. I was a bit older at the time, 'cause I bought my own, but I don't remember exactly how old. I had two sons by then, and the younger was old enough to learn Commodore BASIC. I remember it was built on a video interface chip, thus the name. I went from VIC-20 to a Commodore-64, then a Kaypro 4-84, which was a "portable," with two floppy drives, and ran on CP/M. I wrote two books on that thing, using WordStar. Finally I got an American PC with MS-DOS. I remember my first Windows being a DOS app.

                    It seemed to me that every real "system" in those days cost around $3,000, but as I graduated from system to system over the years, I kept getting more and more for that amount of money.