just thanks for the perspective! I am pretty curious to try it out- maybe in a VM or on one of my lesser-used computers.

    14 days later

    KDE Neon and Debian Stable (with Openbox). Two best distros I've used. So far.

    I think Solus Budgie, Solus Mate or perhaps Solus Plasma. So far I will stick to Solus Gnome.

    Pop OS or ubuntu budgie.
    Maybe reborn os or endeavor. But I really prefer something more stable as ubuntu rather something edge like arch

    Ubuntu gnome on Wayland bcoz it's so freaking smooth.

    I have a Ubuntu Budgie/Win 10 dual boot running happily together on the desktop and only Solus Budgie on the laptop. UB lead me to Solus.

    8 days later

    Pop! 😅 As I had to use Debian for my projects when I was in university. Then I went to ubuntu due to ease of access. Right now I have Win10+Solus+Pop!_OS.
    (Solus being me daily driver, Windows 10 for windows specific sw and Pop! for backup )

    Hmm, tough choice. I'm not a distro-hopper, but I do move around when I have a reason to.

    I came to Solus from Manjaro. Before that I was running MX. I really liked MX, but even as a rolling distro, app versions were a bit too far behind for me and new versions were a bit to slow to be added to the repo's for my liking.

    I will say that Solus has been the only distro that I have ever tried where all of the software I needed was quickly and easily found.

    I've never used eopkg before, but I didn't have any issues picking it up and using after scanning the man page once.

    I've only been using Solus for a couple of days, but so far so good !!!

    2 months later

    salexandarz Manjaro definitely

    Yeah, Manjaro was pretty good, IMHO. For many of the same reasons that make Solus so good, but not nearly so well executed.

      I was using Fedora before Solus and would still be using it if not for Solus lol
      Having had a chance to get familiar with Budgie, I'd wish that Fedora offered a Budgie Spin though.

      manjaro although it feels a bit like randomly thrown together stuff in the hope that it will work compared to solus, but still good. oh, and unlike solus it detected and automatically installed my samsung ml-2165w printer

      Been using Solus (KDE) on my laptop for over a year now, so I'm happy. On my desktop running 24/7 SolydK is a reliable OS, so of course SolydK and all the more so, because F2FS and NILFS2 file systems are also available. Third would me MX Linux and PCLinuxOS coming in fourth. Fifth? Oh yes, Win10 or KDE Neon.


      Or otherwise I go back to Evolve 1.0. I still have the ISO-CD. No problem.

      Solus was my 8th distro in the past year, and I don't think I'll use anything else as long as it's maintained. I like that the various Ubuntu flavors have the backing of Canonical, but all except Xubuntu felt so heavy compared to a lot of others. I really enjoyed Elementary and Zorin, but Mint worked good on my hardware too.

      1. Elementary
      2. Zorin
      3. Peppermint
      4. Mint
      5. Endless

      Probably Elementary if not Ubuntu. The other lightweight distros have not been working for me. Solus has been the only distro that I liked aesthetically and also operationally functional from the box. Some components break here and there after updates but that comes with ANY os. Also, Solus community has been phenomenal with support for the OS. Have not had a single issue not resolved after bringing it up here in the forums.

      Lately I've been looking at Pop_OS! (or however it's written). The new tiling functionality seems interesting, though one could probably also get that for Solus Gnome.