Playing with Manjaro and Arch, but wouldn't use is as my daily driver. Ubuntu Budgie looks awesome and works fine and I like the smooth look and feel of Zorus OS but once you are used to the rolling updates and performance of Solus...
Respect to the Solus developers for building and maintaining it, unbelievable what a small team with a drive and a shared vision can do.
So for me it's Solus all the way, debian and ubuntu on servers.
Nobody looking at Clear Linux?
bvdlingen As i understand it Manjaro is Arch but just easier to setup and get running. It's still right on the rickety edge.
Solus tends to wait for a few patch releases for a piece of software. We can still see the edge...but there is a fence and a bit of distance between Solus and the bleeding edge which suits my needs just fine.
Already running Peppermint 10 Respin on my main laptop.
Praying for that community at this time.
Running openSUSE Tumbleweed Plasma in Gnome Boxes, and would be comfortable moving to it IF the need arises.
LinuxPaulM Gaming on Linux??? 
Was getting frustrated with the last few Solus updates, and when I upgraded my rig last week I loaded a tweaked Manjaro Architect set up that I ran for two days, and gave up and put in a fresh Solus install. Thing runs better than I expected after the upgrades, and I am now just jumping through the last of the tweaks to make it perfect. This is my gaming and streaming rig, so I hope it stays stable for longer than the last Solus system, Over a year, I had like 4 updates pooch my ability to play 2 of my fave games (Diablo 3 and GTA V) and a few other hiccups that were really annoying. I just want a gaming system that stays stable for around 2 years, as that seems to be my upgrade cycle lately. I kind of miss the windows xp days, when a system hard drive could just be swapped to a new build every 2 years, for around 8 years total.
If Solus was not around, I would have been using either Manjaro Linux or Linux Mint.
Fedora.
I've checked it recently to see the pure Gnome experience. I really liked it. My Brother printer was automatically installed and working fine.
However I'm staying with Solus due to it's fast boot, forum/community and all other things which I might but will not enumerate here.
This is hard to say ... I was a long time sticking to Ubuntu. But now I see that Arch - like Distros are much quicker in handling with packages e.g. when updating. I would stay with Arch-like Distros - probably I would then change to BlackArch. If not Arch - like Distro I would then take Manjaro.
Well, on my laptop I actually run Debian. So, I suppose that would be my default answer. That said, I'm running Debian on my laptop more because I got used to it, and already have it configured how I like it rather than me actually having enjoyed the experience of installing it / getting it configured.
Thus, if your question is more about what I would switch my main machine to in the apocalyptic imaginary scenario in which Solus disappears, then it would be a different answer. In such a situation I think I would probably be looking at Fedora (I've heard some good things about its stability and up-to-datedness), or Manjaro which was actually the first distro I gave a proper chance to. While I hated Manjaro when I first tried it, a lot of that hate came from me not having yet learned the difference between desktop environment and distro. I was using the - at the time default choice for Manjaro - XFCE desktop and really reaaaallly reeeeeeeaaaaaaaaallly didn't enjoy it at all (and still don't). I was also not really prepared for the finickiness of Arch. As a much more experienced user now, I would probably be able to handle it a bit better than before; though, definitely with the KDE desktop this time.
That said, If I'm being honest those above picks would really be emergency, apocalypse, last chance before the sky starts falling, choices for me. Using a distro other than Solus is fine on my laptop which I only use for very light occasional coding practice, online chess, and hulu watching. Actually having to switch environments for my main machine would be terrible. I would be a little lost without Solus quite frankly.
I just started trying Solus, being a Salient OS user(Arch based) and even though I am only technically using this for a chance to try it out for the Big Daddy Linux Distro Challenge, I am slowly getting torn away from my Salient. If Solus wasnt around for sure it would be Salient OS
My trajectory was Slackware -> Redhat6 -> FreeBSD4 -> MacOSX -> Slackware -> Ubuntu -> Solus. There is a pattern of cycling between a mainstream distro and a niche one. So if I didn't find Solus, I will be using another lesser known distro, perhaps nixOS or gentoo.
hashhsah I know the cycling I started in Linux with Slackware in 1998, since then I have tried so many distros that I am a chronic distro hopper. I am hoping I can stay for a change with Solus, I just always worry with small independent distros that they could easily go under 
[unknown] Thank you for your answer, this information is indeed very interesting, however I had no problems with KaOS and I loved their philosophy, too. 
If I wasn't using Solus...(past RedHat, Debian, SuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora) it would be Arch. But that's what dual boot is all about
I was doing a lot of research before impulse, and luck I suppose, brought me to Solus. That said, I would have been running Linux Mint.
I would use Zorin, because it doesn't break and it's idiot proof.
lekkerlinux zorin is my second distro on my dual boot device running next to solus unstable. To me it's the Ubuntu that Ubuntu tries to be. Although the fact that it's not rolling and is still tied to any decisions canonical decides to make rules it out of competing with solus for me
adurante Yes, I have used Zorin since 2013 and tried many distros last year. They all had problems like freezes and crashes or the default music player not working when I try to put my Cd's on my pc. I had to return to Zorin because it was reliable. It just got slower over the years, using the same desktop PC.
I having only been using Solus since last week and have only experienced one crash in the game 0AD this morning. It's not that important and only the game crashed, not the whole system.
I was looking at Zorin too, but like Ubuntu there seems to be a bit of the telemetry stuff going on that I DESPISE. I did not want to go through the hassle of disabling any of that stuff, so I passed it up all together. The only thing I can think of that I'm not stoked about with Solus is that mandatory updates will get installed any time you run updates (or perhaps whenever you use the software manager). It's not that the updates themselves are bad, it's just the principal. However, that's a matter for a different thread.
Mandatory? Don't you have a choice to update or not?
