If not solus, what distro would you be using

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

Would go with Linux Mint

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

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.

Pisi is the package manager from Pardus... I didn't know Pardus also had a derivative named Pisi until now, it's a bit confusing!

synth-ruiner it's a bit confusing!

Yeah, but a lot of fun to explore these distros!

WetGeek I think you installed the minimal ISO. No DE on that one. Do a Pisi search for plasma and see if you can install the DE

synth-ruiner Pisi is the package manager from Pardus... I didn't know Pardus also had a derivative named Pisi until now, it's a bit confusing!

The old Pardus was an independent distro, with the pisi package manager. But that changed, modern Pardus is a Debian derivative , and uses apt. As you can expect, some people missed the old Pardus, and wanted to resurrect it, just like the Gnome2 Mate situation. They wanted to call it Pardus-Anka (anka is phoenix in Turkish), but finally called it Pisi Linux. Pisi Linux is supposedly what the old Pardus was, whereas modern Pardus is Debian under the hood.