I honestly don't know what I'd do if Solus were discontinued.

Truth be told, I'd probably drop Linux if Solus were discontinued. I'm long-since retired and no longer have a work-related need to use Linux. I use Solus because I like it so much. Solus is fun to use, rock-solid, and the Solus team/community is great. Solus was designed to be a desktop environment, nothing more, and it is near perfect for that purpose.

So who knows? If Solus were discontinued, I might buy a Macbook Air laptop and learn the MacOS environment. Two of my sons have been nagging me about Apple for years and years, and I've never tried it. I like my iPhone, so I'd probably like MacOS, and if iOS is any indication, MacOS will be rock solid and easy on my geezer psyche.

Maybe I'll try Endeavour OS. But, I'll use Solus as long as possible.

I would move over to Gecko linux rolling release (Opensuse spin) and the LXQT variant.
Its fast running the absolute latest LQXT and pretty stable.
I looked at their take on budgie but its pretty bad besides nothing can compare to Solus and Budgie combined
IMHO.

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My laptop (w/Ryzen 4500u) has a hole on the SSD where Solus Plasma is going when 4.2 comes out. I REALLY hope it comes out soon. I mean REALLY. 🙂
Manjaro Plasma
KDE Neon
Tumbleweed
Clear Linux

After so more time using Linux as my main OS, I think I'd have to change my answers. Even though I have an adversion to Ubuntu based distros, I'd probably go with Elementary. It's the only thing that comes close in my opinion to the fit and finish, curation, and elegance of Solus.

kyrios
naaa, Shatterd Glass 11 would be a nice Distri Name 😃

I would give BSD a try... actually GhostBSD.

    Before Solus I was distro hopping a lot because my long time favorite, Korora (user-friendly fedora) was discontinued. If Solus wasn't around I would probably be running Fedora or Pop while trying to find something else.

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    I used Manjaro the last years. Before I was using Arch + Deepin DE.
    I loved Deepin because it is really good looking and their own software is great.
    But Deepin has so many bugs coming and going... it is not reliable, unfortunately!

    Manjaro once made my work machine unusable because of a failed Kernel and firmware update.
    It felt still too bleeding edge.
    I was using Cinnamon at last as I don't like all the others like KDE and Gnome. XFCE and LXQT lacking too much. But Cinnamon takes memory and cpu... no transparency on the panel and I don't know. Simply not perfect.

    I had a look at Budgie a few years ago but it was too simple back then. I then went to DDE.
    But now Budgie got interesting again, but I didn't want to use it on a manjaro but rather "natively" on its own os.

    So now it is Solus. It is stable and comes with a decent default config. Far from being perfect though it does what it should and it looks very neat.

    I'm not using Solus rn because I am waiting for the 4.2 ISO due to very new hardware, but I would it would either be Pop!_OS, Fedora, or EndeavourOS.

      MOOP I have a brand new desktop w/ AMD Ryzen 9 5900, PCIe Gen4, low end Radeon, and it runs like a charm. What are you concerned about? Just curious. I said Pop earlier but Solus is so crisp. I hope you guys start a foundation we can start supporting to ensure the longevity of the project. Thanks!

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          gsf what do you think of Garuda? I've been thinking about giving it a spin on a VM.

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              jppelt Ethernet does not work with the 5.4 kernel that comes with the ISO. I know I can probably download and compile the driver for it, but I'd rather wait until they release the next ISO, given that it'll hopefully be soon.

                  Brucehankins I enjoy bcs I believe the tweaks it has benefits me in that some of the heavier games that used to crash on me on other distros I think it just works there I could be completly wrong though

                    MOOP If you update Solus upon installation, it is now running Kernel: 5.10.9-169.current ; I'm on ethernet with wifi shut off, no problem.

                        jppelt I do not have internet, neither in the live installer nor after installation.

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                          Probably PopOS, as that was the last before Solus came along a few days back. In a list of Linux distros I used through the years since 2006.
                          I see though why fellow users could and want to stick with Solus Budgie.

                            RobertTVarga I see though why fellow users could and want to stick with Solus Budgie.

                            Yeah, once you try Solus Budgie, it's hard to appreciate any other distro.