[deleted] I would give the EndeavourOS VM another try honestly. I used EndeavourOS in Gnome Boxes for a couple weeks to become familiar and comfortable with it. And while yes EndeavourOS is ideally meant to use the terminal, you can use it however you like also and just so you know there is a GUI program called Pamac that you can install that is essentially like the Software Center in Solus. Pamac is GUI for pacman to install/remove/search packages. I have it installed as well and use it from time to time for simple installs and updates. But for most things I try to use the terminal, and I'm by no means an expert, (I'm simply learning little by little) I just use about maybe a dozen terminal commands and that's it. If you give the VM another go, to install Pamac is simple:

yay -S pamac-aur

yay is an AUR helper (still actively maintained btw) written in GO that helps you install packages from the AUR, -S is the command to install a package and pamac-aur is the package to install. There are a few other packages, like pamac-aur-git andpamac-all-git, but for most users I'd say go with pamac-aur

Now to get Pamac working as intended in an Arch-based distro like EndeavourOS (it was created by the Manjaro Devs btw), you do have to install one other package the EndeavourOS team maintains so the main screen in Pamac shows the app list correctly. Just install the package called archlinux-appstream-data-pamac:

yay -S archlinux-appstream-data-pamac

The above command may ask you to remove a file that is similar to this one. That is okay and you want to remove it. So once you do those two simple commands, you have yourself a working GUI software center like application that allows you to install, remove, search, and update your system. Just know that even though EndeavourOS is ideally terminal based, many (I would argue most) have Pamac installed on their systems as their preferred method. Hope that helps and good luck in the VMs!

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      [deleted] Well it's a bad idea in general to use anything Arch-based if one's terrified of the command line.

      i am sure i wont have any problem in SteamOS 3 馃檪

      Scotty-Trees

      yeah sure i will try the vm again, thanks for the information!

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            [deleted] I'm definitely curious to see how SteamOS 3 turns out.

              Hola, si tuviera que cambiar SolusOS lo har铆a por KDE ne贸n o ZorinOS, pero en realidad estoy muy contento con SolusOS Budgie y no tengo la menor intenci贸n de hacerlo ya que es una distribuci贸n excelente!

              Umm... whatever gets forked from it.. I don't want another lol. Love Solus, hope it stays around forever. There is no other distro quite like it and I don't want to have to switch.

              6 days later

              I mostly used Arch based distros ( Manjaro, Endeavour os) , tried to use Elementay os , Zorin os ( but had issues). I am satisfied with Solus for now, I hope it will stay like this 馃榾

              ill be giving the new manjaro release a spin on a secondary drive. seems its got btrfs and snapshots now which imo definitely is the way to go. wish it was available on solus as well, then again solus is probably the rolling distro that needs a safety net like that the least

                10 days later

                I tried over 20 different distros. I'm mostly into Debian/Ubuntu based ones. My favourites are:

                • Mint Cinnamon/Mate
                • Sparkylinux MinimalGUI (Openbox + Tint2 panel)
                • Linux Lite (Xfce)
                • Pop! _OS

                I tried Solus few years ago when it was quite new and I liked some ideas, but could't get my stuff working. So I used Mint for years, then Sparkylinux, because I could get most FPS in games on my lousy hardware. I was curious about other and independent distros and Solus isn't some obscure and barebone one that needs serious tweaks. I tried it and I was suprised how good it looks and how well Mate edition works on a potato PC. Also it works great with Wine, Steam, Snap and Flatpak. Linux Lite had problems with running Windoze stuff for some reason, even when it's very close to Ubuntu. My Linux distro has to look nice, be fairly lightweight and must run Windoze/Steam games without much hassle. Even if I use Linux since 2010 I still prefer stuff that works out of the box and is somehow familiar. I'm really suprised how familiar Solus is even if it's not Debian/Ubuntu and eopkg was quite easy for me to get into after years with apt.

                Lucien_Lachance Doesn't Solus have a built in rollback feature? I believe stateless is the term

                  a month later

                  Fedora rawhide
                  OpenSuse Tumbleweed
                  Solus
                  EndeavorOS
                  ArcoLinux

                  Either ArcoLinux or Manjaro for me if I hadn't found Solus. Still find more stability with Solus thought.

                  I replied to this two years ago. And I thought about it a long time since this thread keeps bouncing around. My answer is still the same as in 2019: Win 7.

                  (I tried a lot of ugly distros because I needed a foss life, but solus was the easiest on the eyes. an aesthetic marvel. If that's shallow, then I am shallow).

                    brent My answer is still the same as in 2019: Win 7.

                    Well, you can't really use Win 7 anymore, it's not supported iirc, so huge security concerns...
                    Choose from Windows 10 or Windows 11 馃槈

                        Solarmass I would stubbornly use 7 with as much protection as possible. 10 is out of the question. Thankfully I don't have to do either!馃檪

                            I am trying to stick with "original" distros and not spins (Debian, Fedora/CentOS, Arch, openSUSE, Solus etc.). That decreases the selection a lot but makes it easier to choose a distro without the need of endless distro hopping 馃槃

                            Currently, I am looking into openSUSE Tumbleweed. The syntax of zypper is intuitive just as in Solus. I am still not certain, if I really want to go with rolling release or static release model (e.g. openSUSE Leap). Arch is nice too by the cryptic syntax really bothered me.

                            So, instead of Solus I would go with openSUSE 馃槃

                              brent I've updated my pick a couple times since I originally posted in this thread. While I still think Elementary is beautiful and love what they are trying to accomplish, I'm going to have to say, it's not for me right now. Pop! is amazing, but I've really grown to love KDE and the Qt frameworks. It would probably be Lubuntu or a rolling Plasma DE.

                                  GermanTux I keep trying SUSE in VMs and while I do like their package manager, it's just not as fast or intuitive to me as Solus. That said, having run both Tumbleweed and Leap for extended periods, I think I'd go with Tumbleweed as I prefer the rolling model over the LTS model. Tumbleweed is still pretty solid and stable from my experience. Leap is okay for a production machine that you absolutely need stability on, you just have to learn to deal with some outdated things, kind of like Debian.