Diary of a happy distrohopper II: Solus praise & joy

korbendallaskoop

Here's my notes of praise from a years Solus Budgie use, 10/10 on a scale from 1-6 from me for:

auto mute volume when removing jack cable is so so smooth
volume mixer in the (Raven?) panel (meta + a)
suspend to disk and battery notifications
Budgie Menu perfect as universal launcher for any app or setting
most settings can be quickly navigated from keyboard, mouseless
file manager navigation and fuzzy search sort of almost perfect (just missing a shortcut to jump to the left column menu, never found it)
DLNA (out of KODI) out of the box, no driver hunt needed
digitizer driver for MyPaint and Krita as well, that was one of the main reasons for installing it in the first place (instead of Ubudgie or Elementary)
rolling release is very convenient, thanks a lot to core team and all the package maintainers

brent

korbendallaskoop Read parts 1 and 2. One will hear variations of your journey a lot around here. It is a joyous thing to discover solus, no doubt, and contemplate the route you got there.
I was WIN/MAC most of life but when I decided I needed no more MS in my life here's how it went: Mint=10 minutes. Ubu=10 minutes. Both ugly. Solus, scrappy independent, and never looked back. Not a hopper, it was love at first sight. Good read.

korbendallaskoop

*** can't edit OP, sorry, forgot to mention:

image viewer is great and handy (crop and resize would be nice but ok, it's a viewer)
no fuss with firewire (it's a thing and it rocks till 2025 and beyond)
no fuss with eSATA out of ancient laptop dock
native redshift is eyeboggling (or not, you decide)
global fuzzy/elastic Nautilus search amazing
as is WebDAV mapping