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.

      7 days later

      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.

          2 months later

          v3l0ct I actually like XFCE

          I used KDE on openSUSE for years, but then changed to Xfce, and was pleased that it performed so much better, and had all the features I wanted or needed. If Budgie weren't available on a distro I was trying out, I'd gladly settle for Xfce.

              I'd most likely use Pop OS, even though I prefer rolling release model, because there is no other rolling release distro that's as stable as Solus.

              WetGeek have you tried LXQt? It's performance is comparable to XFCE, but it looks ever so slightly more modern and can be themed to a greater extent. I was really impressed with Lubuntu and kept it around on a second drive for a while.

                  Brucehankins have you tried LXQt

                  Yep. I can't remember what distro it was on (I've tried so many). I went through a phase where I was very interested in lightweight distros and DEs, not because my hardware was short on resources, but I just found lightweight software to be faster and more fun to use.

                  When I found Solus, though, I pretty much stopped looking at any other distros. And despite my brief infatuation with Plasma, I still tend to compare all other DEs with Budgie. I've never gotten used to the name, though.

                    12 days later
                    12 days later

                    Unfortunately, I was forced to abandon Solus. With all due respect to the distribution, I can't accept the fact that /usr/bin/ping has a suid, this is fundamental for pwsh, which loses some features, and therefore for me. At the moment I use ArcoLinux, which works amazingly.

                      meinherz I think maybe ArcoLinux (which uses Arch Linus repository) have the ping from iputils by default, while Solus by default uses ping from inetutils.
                      Solus offer both packages but the ping of iputils package is renamed on Solus as iputils-ping to avoid the conflict with the ping from inetutils. Normally you have to use an alias like alias ping='iputils-ping'.

                        WetGeek
                        I don't consider myself unhappy either. If there were unsolvable problems with Arco, I would change it without regret.