Yeh I am actually an archlinux guy and/or Manjaro. I just had a bad updgrade on Manjaro on my daily driver machine. Might have been my own mistake, who knows. And I was about to install vanilla Arch again, I said... $#@! it lets try something new. I actually saw Solus on distrowatch many times.
But then came across the name more often on reddit, linux gaming, linux masterrace and all those subs you know. And I always saw people saying good things about it, the ONLY negative was always "no AUR, not many packages etc." as I am more or less someone that does not need every single software out there I couldn't care less so I said, %$#@ it. Install Solus.
First tried it on my very old M4 SSD 60 GB. That is my so called Linux Test Drive. Used it couple of days/weeks. Only problem I had was the update errors that happend to all of us. That was fixed very fast tho.
The only thing that kept me from going all in 100% on Solus was the fact that the main developer was not reachable, stopped working on it and all that stuff. I mean, what is the point of using a distro when you know that none is gonna take care of it?
But I then saw that the main dev gave all the "rights" to the current guys responsible for Solus. New Domain etc. Then I backedup my installation with clonezilla and moved it from Linux Test Drive SSD to my m.2 nvme Drive.
I play games a lot, I did on Arch and Manjaro. Call me crazy, it can just be a placebo effect, who knows. But some games just seem to run better on Solus compared to Arch/Manjaro. I know that some stuff is integrated for Steam/Proton etc.
But I don't know how that has any positive effect or not on games. At the end of the day, System runs smooth, I like it. Games run very smooth. Solus is my daily driver currently. And I am excited to see more stuff to come. Like sol.
