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.

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        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.

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                  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.

                        The first version of Linux I ran was Ubuntu MATE. I enjoyed the Community but eventually borked my system. After that I ran Zorin OS and enjoyed it very much until I borked my system. I tried running Parrot OS but it was only a short time before.. I borked my system.

                        I was stuck on Fedora Gnome for a long while. I loved the experience of Gnome 3 and the intuitive design. However Fedora 28 had many simple tasks (like adding a VPN through a .opvn file) that had issues. It took me a month to figure out how to get VPNs running right. Whenever I got things working something would break.

                        Then I found Solus 3. I loved Budgie immediately. I loved the ease of use. I loved everything.

                        I couldn't install Solus on my desktop until Solus 3.999 fixed some of the UEFI issues. Once that ISO came out IIRC I migrated every device I owned away from Windows for good. My current desktop has been running stable and secure with only two small issues since March 2019.

                        I honestly couldn't imagine running anything but a Solus Operating System. I know for certain I would never run a Debian/Ubuntu-based distro again.. I borked them all.

                        If I were FORCED to choose..

                        Manjaro Budgie.

                        However I do not feel safe, secure, or at ease unless I am running Solus. Solus KDE is the only version of KDE I have tried that I felt was usable. Solus Gnome surpasses Fedora Gnome IMO in implementation. Even Solus MATE is superior to Ubuntu MATE IMO.

                        The only desktop environment where any other distro competes is Manjaro Budgie. I enjoy some of the python-based applets. What I like in this applets though is greatly outweighed by my distrust of the AUR (you might as well be using Windows and getting .exe files from download.com OMG!). There are many programs, such as Vivaldi, that I am only able to download through the AUR and that tarnished my overall experience because I never feel at ease using community based repos.

                        If Solus disappeared tomorrow I would look for another distro with Budgie. But my real preference is to have Solus installed across my devices because everything just works.