My personal reason for switching to Solus is because everything I have need for just seems to work. I use a lot of technical programs like Cura and Freecad and recently tried OrcaSlicer. Solus is the only Linux OS I have found that can run OrcaSlicer. And I have tried plenty of them. When I have had a questionn about something I have received almost always a quick and accurate reply from this forum.

I would call this a great OS for people that need to use technical programs. I don't know how they did it but the developers of Solus have certainly done some good work creating an OS that does such a good job with more technical type programs.

    Citfta When I have had a questionn about something I have received almost always a quick and accurate reply from this forum.

    Agree on that. The Solus community is very nice, there are always answers or at least suggestions pointing to the right direction instead of rtfm.

      mountain_mosquito There must be something on the first page, or in the first sentence telling people how this distro is unique and why you want to use it because of the feature(s) xyz. Like Fedora "it just works", or Void Linux "we do not use evil systemd."

      Wait, those are supposed to be the good examples for unique distro selling points? ^^

          I actually think it's always better to say a word or two about the content rather than posting links without comment.
          that way the reader can get an idea of whether they want to click at all...
          my 2 cents about using a forum

          Lucien_Lachance
          "As we've renamed we've issued an updated CLA which will need signing for new PRs. It's the same as the old CLA but incorporates the new name to avoid us causing legal confusion. Note that new copyright lines will need adding past the expiration of the "Serpent OS" name, starting from 2025.

          // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright © 2020-2025 Serpent OS Developers
          // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright © 2025 AerynOS Developers"

          this is a brief re-organization dispatch

            a month later
            5 days later

            alfisya I'm having trouble with virt-manager. The package is not available in "moss". So, I installed it via flatpak. It turns out that libvirtd is missing. Any suggestions?

                loki-III What are you trying to accomplish here? Installing AerynOS on virt-manager? Installing virt-manager on Solus?

                If it is about AerynOS, you are better served on their forum. Cheers!

                    alfisya whatcha doin'? We don't know how to install it either xD

                      more from ikey:
                      Taking a break from our usual release-oriented updates, I thought it was high time to dive into what AerynOS actually is and what sets it apart from other distros. Fair warning, this is a meaty, in depth post, and still only scratches the surface. If you’re interested in the future of Linux distributions, read on. It may also help to visit our work-in-progress documentation site for more information.
                      https://aerynos.com/blog/2025/03/29/aerynos-the-os-as-infrastructure/

                        craigtoyoracer
                        "Firstly, AerynOS isn’t Yet Another Linux Distribution. It’s a platform, a foundation, and a set of tools engineered in accordance with a vision and design that just so happens to produce a Linux distribution. Were we to go back in time and build a design brief for AerynOS, the initial question might be:

                        What if the operating system itself behaved like modern infrastructure?

                        AerynOS is the answer to that question. What if, instead of doing things the way they’ve always been done, we started from the ground up and produced a well designed system, rather than the traditional model of in-place mutation internal to a distribution?"

                        I had to read this 2-3 times to really get it. This is radical. Visionary.