2025 Personal Solus Year In Review
Man, time flies! I happened to be in my profile and realized that I have been a member on this forum for a year now, as a few days ago. Honestly when I signed up, I was still learning and unsure about Solus due to gossip, etc. on social media and Linux sites. But, ever time I looked into it, something kept drawing me into the idea around Solus. Having been in the Linux world for over 3 decades, not much draws me in anymore and with Solus I couldn’t put a finger on what it was and honestly I don’t think it is any one thing, it is everything. I won’t rehash that here as I have done so a few times in my feedback posts in the past.
It has been a fun ride and figuring things out how not only the distro works, but the tools and more importantly the team behind it works. Yes, it can certainly look like organized and depending on the day, unorganized chaos on the Matrix side, but having a long history in the industry is honestly what it is all about. It is the proverbial duck on a pond that looks all peaceful floating calmly along the water, while underneath those legs are churning.
I truly enjoy the community and the @Solus Staff . I love how the weekly update announcements are not just some leave it and forget it. It is posted and followed by the team. And what many don’t realize is that almost immediately after that post they are already churning out new updates to Unstable for the next week. I love the little things (they are actually a lot of work) that the team does like the Contributor Roundup that @alfisya does (who has been very busy lately hence why it has been a minute). I find that kind of connection to the community and feedback on that side of a project is as important as the technical update side.
The community has been fun and full of people from all walks of life and as we have learned languages, which I love. It is what I miss from the early days of Linux. In many ways it is a throwback.
So now my poor little imitation of @alfisya
Milestones over the Year
Contribute?
Here are a few open issues that are good for either newcomers or experienced:
Try one of these issues, you would surprised how easy it is! Or not, but you already tried and that counts a lot! If you do want to try, these are the basic steps to contribute to Solus:
- Join the Solus Packaging Room and Development Room on Matrix
- Read our documentation
- Submit your first Pull Request. We recommend doing any of the issues labeled as "Good first issue" in the respective repository.
- Follow the review process until your PR gets merged.
- Don't hesitate to ask any questions in our Matrix rooms.
- Congratulations on your first contribution!
- Keep on contributing.
Funding
Your financial contributions make all of this possible. If you have the spare funds, we offer perks on our Open Collective page. Here are the number of people that support us regularly (at the time of writing):
- 6 people in Crew tier, -1
- 37 people in Release Testers tier, +5
- 12 people in Beta Testers tier, -3
- 28 people in Backers tier, -2
- 14 non-tiered donations, -2
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2025 Contributor Roundups
