I have made a Reddit post asking this on r/linux4noobs, i got some great tips there, but i thought it would be better to ask here, so here i am.

I have gained some Linux experience by watching Linux youtubers, reading a book about it, and experimenting on my spare laptop that i have. Tried multiple distros on it, but Solus has to be the one that has interested me the most. It has pretty much everything i want and need, Firefox, Steam and Heroic Games Launcher (unsure if it is available through the repo though and you need Flatpak for it) which seems great. Tried it out on the laptop.

My main PC (which i will be installing Linux on in October) is a desktop PC with a Sapphire RX Radeon 7800XT Nitro+ GPU, and a Ryzen 7500 CPU, so it should be good to go hardware-wise.

So what do you think? Should i go with Solus?

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  • Vitsteri6 My main PC (which i will be installing Linux on in October) i

    Why wait until October? Windows 10 EOL?

    Vitsteri6 So what do you think? Should i go with Solus?

    You come to to most biased place to ask this question, so the answer is yes. : )

    Joking aside, most of Linux user will not be staying with their first distro. They will distrohop for a while. Some of them stop and chose a home , but some of them never do. I will say just try it and see if you like it. What I mean by "trying" it is really using it as daily driver, no other OSes. You will really see all the upside and the downside, whether it is about Linux in general or Solus specifically. If you ever found problem using Solus, feel free to ask (or search) in the Forum or Matrix chat. We have a lot of community members raring to help one another.

    Cheers !

        Based in your hardware, it looks like Solus should work well. Solus is a running stable distro with weekly syncs, although it is generally ok to skip some weeks. Set it in a VM and test for a bit, see if it suits you.

        I was a looong time Budgie user, but the Wayland experience on Solus is absolutely smooth in my laptop. So test both and see what you feel is better for you.

        Vitsteri6 no harm in trying it out, right?

        Personally, I've been using Solus for everything (programming work, gaming, etc) for about 4 years now. It's the most stable Linux experience I've ever had, and seems like it just keeps getting better.

        Also, you don't need flatpak for Heroic. We have a native package for it (though I don't always get it updated right away 😅)

            i tihnk its a good choice, although if reddit is anything to go by mint seems to be the one a lot of people start with

            Vitsteri6 My main PC (which i will be installing Linux on in October) i

            Why wait until October? Windows 10 EOL?

            Vitsteri6 So what do you think? Should i go with Solus?

            You come to to most biased place to ask this question, so the answer is yes. : )

            Joking aside, most of Linux user will not be staying with their first distro. They will distrohop for a while. Some of them stop and chose a home , but some of them never do. I will say just try it and see if you like it. What I mean by "trying" it is really using it as daily driver, no other OSes. You will really see all the upside and the downside, whether it is about Linux in general or Solus specifically. If you ever found problem using Solus, feel free to ask (or search) in the Forum or Matrix chat. We have a lot of community members raring to help one another.

            Cheers !

                  alfisya

                  alfisya Well, the reason i will wait until then, is that i want to see if anything changes, just in case. And switching at the last minute would work best for me, as i can learn some more until then.

                      when I abandoned Windows I went to Solus.

                      alfisya most of Linux user will not be staying with their first distro.

                      Maybe. I never went anywhere after joining. I am still with it (but have tried others).

                        The thing I miss most from Windows is having to run a script that removes all the bloat and restores the performance after every update. Also starting my computer to do something urgent only to find that there is a two hour update happening before I can get to the operating system.
                        Linux has it's faults but I have suffered from frustration much less since making the switch.
                        Tried a few for a while before finding Solus and I'm still here after four or five years. Looked about again when Solus had a bit of a hiccup a while back but came back to it like so many others.
                        Everyone has different taste so the only way to be sure is to suck it and see.
                        Good advice: Get an external hard drive and back up all your important documents, pictures, videos and music onto it. That way you can wipe without breaking a sweat and don't need to worry about dual booting. If you find that you still need Windows then use a program like VirtualBox and run Windows inside Linux.

                        You gonna be good. Just get a second SSD and install Solus on it. The moment you no longer need Windows you can install another LinuxOS on it, maybe Solus again with another DE 🐧

                        I just got Solus since a month or two and it's really great. Easy, beautiful and stable.
                        I didn't wanted to switch to linux the past years because I like gaming. But when I heard the gaming is possible on linux, I switch for different distro and Solus is the one I prefer so far !
                        For gaming, steam an Lutis are working fine. I have one game on Steam that I can't run. I don't why. I didn't really looked for a solution so far. Otherwise, I don't have any problem with the other games.
                        I heard it's better for gaming on KDE or Gnome (I'm on Budgie) so you can try the best desktop for you !

                        5 days later

                        I consider Solus to be a really nice choice. I will share you some tips to choose a Linux distro and not follow Linux youtubers

                        1. Choose the init system you like the most to manage your system. Some examples are Systemd, Runit, OpenRC. And search a distro that uses the one you choose

                        2. Preferred release cycle. Choose how much updates you want. Constant rolling updates? 6 month release updates? 1 year lts? 2 years lts? An example of each one, in order, would be: Arch, Fedora, OpenSuse Leap, Ubuntu. Remember that rolling release distros require more attention and they mostly ship feature updates, so you won't be lacking any security updates on LTS distros just because they dont get as many updates as rolling release ones

                        3. Preferred defaults. Do you want to have sane defaults or a minimal install to customise?

                        Now, the second most important would be the desktop. I reccommend Budgie, Plasma and Gnome because they are the most developed ones, with the most features , fixed and options (like encrypting files easily or implementing wayland protocols)

                        Have a great time!