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.
If not solus, what distro would you be using
8 days later
Would be Manjaro KDE or probably KDE Neon.
6 days later
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.
My fav distros now are Solus and Garuda
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.
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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!
gsf what do you think of Garuda? I've been thinking about giving it a spin on a VM.
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
8 days later
Elementary. I thought no distro could replace it. Then I discovered Solus
7 days later
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.
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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.
Funtoo, as it was for years my previous distro.
7 days later
manjaro
Most likely Manjaro, because AUR.
Probably openSUSE, but only because I've used that for far more years than any other distro before I found Solus.
Their Tumbleweed edition is a rolling edition, and very solid in my experience. I particularly liked yast2, where I could type my password just once, and then do any kind of maintenance that was needed.
WetGeek I used Leap 15-15.2, and while I enjoyed the stability, I didn't like being so far behind on stuff. I would try Tumbleweed if I ever went back.
Clear linux