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.

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    Where would you like us to report any issues? I have not used github much but I can add a screenshot of some services failing to install/start properly

      Harvey thanks. I tried to log in to the dev page with my credentials on this forum. It's not accepting. Is that a different account?

          colorado_chris
          Yeah, you can use your phabricator (https://dev.getsol.us) account to login to the forum but I don't think it works the other way, I think you need to register a new account on phabricator or choose the register / login with github option if you prefer.

            Oh yeah! Finally got around to installing Budgie on my old 32 bit lenovo thinkpad, which was running previous version of Budgie. Boot time is phenomenal. 30 sec on this old machine. :-) The Solus Project is the Best. You guys rock. I'll be installing it on my newer desktop directly.

            So, by the way, you guys need to reactivate Patreon contributions. I keep getting emails each month advising me that it is suspended. I really want to start contributing $$ again.

              paulvg I don't think they use that account any more. They posted awhile ago on the blog about some hiccups with donations because Ikey had the funds for that account. Don't remember the details but I think they have a new system for pooling $

                  colorado_chris

                  Don't remember the details but I think they have a new system for pooling $

                  We are not currently accepting donations.

                      JoshStrobl Do you expect to again at some point? I did follow the developments as Ikey left for other pursuits - but I think that it is basically a good idea to have some resources for purchasing equipment etc needed to maintain and develop your topnotch distro.

                          paulvg Yes, we do expect to accept donations down the road. As has been mentioned in the past, we want to ensure the money is going to a legal entity which is in charge of the daily operations and various logistics of Solus first, not only to put Solus in the best position it can but also eliminate those sorts of burdens on individual Core Team members. We have no intentions on accepting donations until that's the case, since we do not want to be put into another situation in the future where the funds are directly tied to a single individual.

                              JoshStrobl Good plan - I'll keep tabs on this and look forward to contributing again. Meanwhile, I'm loving v4 Budgie.

                                  paulvg Budgie 4 was a LONG time ago. I'm guessing you mean Solus 4.0?

                                    Good Job, Solus 4.0 is good with Gnome desktop though its version is 3.28.2. Lets of hope upgrade to latest version is in pipeline with the Solus team. 😁 Integration to Software Centre for flatpak, Snap & AppImage and built upo sources like from github would be a good idea. System be better intelligent to handle different customer needs. The world is moving towards icon based systems like android like gui. I think Solus team should give it a thought in future to have a desktop like android or work closely or merge or team up with other teams to bring a standard gui desktop.

                                      dostana Lets of hope upgrade to latest version is in pipeline with the Solus team.

                                      Already planned and we have a tasklist on our development tracker about it.

                                      Integration to Software Centre for flatpak, Snap & AppImage and built upo sources like from github would be a good idea.

                                      I don't really know what you're referring to about GitHub, but the plan is to support Flatpak and Snap in a future release of Software Center.

                                      The world is moving towards icon based systems like android like gui. I think Solus team should give it a thought in future to have a desktop like android or work closely or merge or team up with other teams to bring a standard gui desktop.

                                          Ah - I did indeed mean solus 4.0 😅