Newbie first questions

MarkoB

Hi all, newbie here. I saw lot of positives about Solus over the internet. I am planning to switch to it but first I have few questions.
I am using everything from Proton ( vpn, pass, email) and it has only apps for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. How to use them here? mostly asking about vpn
Browser, which one do you suggest, for security wise ?
Backup, any suggestions and should i use btrfs or not ?

Thanks 🙂

Axios

MarkoB Browsers can be open ended question
Solus supports Firefox Brave Vivaldi with security and updates so If you use
any of those you would be good. (They seem be most popular)

I stick with the ones that Solus does security updates to because they do them really quick usually.

brent

MarkoB Backup, any suggestions and should i use btrfs or not ?

Most of your questions are souls-agnostic as in purely opinion, and we all have them.
Personally I use Mullvad and Librewolf and Ungoogled but some might find then restrictive plus I have no "threat level goal" or whatever its called since I'm an ordinary user.

Use the search forum upper right for the BTRFS question. There's some good discussions on it. It's been a while since I bare-metal'd Solus. I don't even know if that option is there, vs. EXT4? I see nothing about at Solus main site.
I don't have a VPN.
Welcome, this is a solid, unique distro. Which DE did you like the most?

BuzzPCSOS

MarkoB should i use btrfs or not ?

BTRFS has many strengths and can be a powerful file system. For a newbie I would say it just adds greater complication to a platform that will have a high learning curve anyway. Also if things do go wrong BTRFS complicates recovering your files by quite a wide margin. EXT4 is a good start, play with the others when you are more familiar with Solus.

MarkoB Backup, any suggestions

Simply copying the contents of Home to an external hard drive is a good start. There are programs that can let you perform backups but I prefer the hands-on approach. If you use EXT4 file system you will be able to access all of your files from the Solus boot iso.

SethStorm666

I am using everything from Proton ( vpn, pass, email) and it has only apps for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora. How to use them here? mostly asking about vpn

They are available as flatpaks in the software center.

wazjf

Proton vpn is available as a package on solus. The package name is proton-vpn-gtk-app. As for proton pass I only use the browser extension and it works fine. For proton mail, I use the website directly but if you prefer to use a mail client like Thunderbird, there is a solus package for it named protonmail-bridge.

If you want the mail app or the proton pass app, they are available as flatpak.