BTO A Solus-Version of LXQT would be super nice 😄 And maybe even one without SYSTEMD 😄
If you want to get rid of all the Gnome-GTK-stuff anyhow, LXQT might be a good option?

Two things:

  1. A Solus edition without systemd is extremely unlikely. It would mean an enormous additional effort to maintain both systems, for little to no benefit (plus of course the already considerable effort of maintaining another DE). Also I personally see no reason for NOT using systemd.
  2. It's the Budgie project that wants to move away from GTK, not the whole of Solus. Now that Budgie is a completely separate project the GTK-removal has even less to do with the OS itself, and will most likely only affect the Budgie edition. There will, for the foreseeable future, always been a e.g. Gnome edition, which of course means including everything GTK.

    jppelt I don't actually "control" the fans, but have no noise issue at all.
    I recently updated the firmware, and sent in a report to System76 as their instructions did miss a step.
    Here is what I sent them:

    Updating my System76 Thelio bios was fun......
    Since my main OS is Solus, I had to follow the 'Updating on Other OS's' section of https://support.system76.com/articles/system-firmware/
    Basically booting from a Pop!_OS live USB and entering a few commands.
    However no firmware update was showing.
    Searched the web and found this:

    Had to start and enable the firmware daemon.
    System76 Thelio-R1 is now bios updated.
    No actual support required but informing you I had to go that extra step to enable firmware updates.

        MintSpider I don't actually "control" the fans, but have no noise issue at all.

        When the two fans in my Dell laptop come on (for a few seconds), that doesn't bother me at all. It just confirms that a temporary situation is being taken care of appropriately.

            Brucehankins you guys must not use Google Meet or Microsoft Teams much

            Nope,never had a reason to use either one. Probably a good idea, now that you mention it.

              It's the Budgie project that wants to move away from GTK, not the whole of Solus. Now that Budgie is a completely separate project the GTK-removal has even less to do with the OS itself, and will most likely only affect the Budgie edition. There will, for the foreseeable future, always been a e.g. Gnome edition, which of course means including everything GTK.

              We can also add that

              • MATE also relies on GTK
              • Tons of applications in the repo are GTK-based
              • Budgie won't move away from GTK in a few months
              • ...

              Efforts for running away from systemd would be just wasting time to replace something that works instead of using it to do something more useful, especially on a small project.

              elfprince I used to run Void in the past. Arch and Void are not similar to Solus.

              I'm very curious about Void. What differences did you find between Void and Solus? Apparently Void assumes that its users have high Linux skills, like Arch. On the other hand, I heard that once installed updates run smoothly in Void, like Solus.

                  Avidgamefan Take a quick whack at Feren if you like a simplistic type KDE. The kid does a good job with it

                    joluveba
                    a-void. User skills and making garbageware usable are two different animals.
                    Remember Win 98 ? Remember 2000(only good one).

                    The fix for 2000 was 2000 lite. I spent dozens, if not hundreds of hours neutering the registry_old and ditching the proprietary garbage. When we finished it was "almost linux"....so Billy brought Whistler (XP) and fed it to us hacks.
                    The only reason I've booted a Window since is for access to the BIOS to get a Linux installed LOL

                    Solus is pretty awesome and leaves very little to do after install. Few distros share that ease. MX is up there too.

                        1. Zorin OS,
                        2. Mint OS,
                        3. Ubuntu,
                        4. BBQ Linux, (Tuned for Android Development)
                        5. Windows 7 Pro

                        tilaran , if not hundreds of hours neutering the registry_old and ditching the proprietary garbage. When we finished it was "almost linux"....so Billy brought Whistler (XP) and fed it to us hacks.
                        The only reason I've booted a Window since is for access to the BIOS to get a Linux installed LOL

                        and a random update would restore the corrupt registry, change any and all policy settings you made, turn on garbage services you painstakingly turned off, restore any bloat you gutted, and nuke your security settings....

                        ....using WIN was like being Sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill...getting four teeth pulled with no numbing agent at all was more welcoming than using WIN sometimes...

                          I am very lucky, I didn't have to deal with this. 🤣

                            elfprince I think in the coarse of a Windows life this has all happened to me more than once, probably more than twice at different times...but...it does not happen anymore🙂

                              7 days later

                              Before using solus, I used gentoo and debian for daily driver and put on server

                              A few days ago I tried with a USB a distro that is kinda related to Solus, Pisi Linux (eopkg is a fork of the pisi package manager), and I liked a lot what I saw, it felt fluid and simple, reminded me of Solus. Apparently it's not rolling release, but the software was quite up to date, Firefox 97.0.1, Chromium 98, KDE Plasma 5.24.2, it even had Budgie in the repository, for the Budgie lovers!!

                              I have uninstalled Solus several times (the distrohopping spirit is strong in me) and I have always regretted it, so I don't think I'm going to do it this time. But I'd like to try this distro some day.

                                joluveba the distrohopping spirit is strong in me

                                It'a a lot easier to support a distrohopping habit if you use virtual machines. If it's not something you've tried yet, and you'd like to, just know that there are lots of us in the forum who would be happy to help you get started.

                                I think I'll create a VM to take a look at Pisi. Not looking to replace Solus on any machine I use every day, but I'm curious about what other distros are doing with Budgie. That was my first love when I found Solus!

                                    I always end up on Solus Gnome for my daily driver. I've borrowed a lot from Zorin for my desktop and I like that distro but I just find Solus faster for what I do. An example is the intolerable delay in accessing network shares using Zorin and many other distros.

                                    I'm running Zorin on an HTPC that I am testing out as a replacement for all those Android personal-information-distribution boxes, and I use MX Linux on my media server. (XFCE+gnome disks and nautilus).

                                    I was using Elementary for a week last month and it was okay but still the speed issue comes up.

                                    WetGeek I think I'll create a VM to take a look at Pisi

                                    @joluveba , I did that, and here's as far as I've gotten so far:

                                    When I logged on, I was taken to tty1. I executed startx, but that didn't get me to a GUI. I'm sure Pisi supports a GUI, because it includes applications like Firefox, but I don't know how to get there yet.

                                    Any help appreciated!

                                        WetGeek I don't know how to get there yet

                                        About all I could think of doing was learning a little more about the pisi application. I was surprised at how much it feels like eopkg, even thought I knew a bit about their shared history. Invoking pisi up got me 141 package upgrades, and the output left me thinking I was watching an eopkg update.