If not solus, what distro would you be using

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 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.

joluveba Yes, there is an ISO with KDE, which is what I used

On the Pisi download page,I could find only two options: the "minimal" version I used, and an older option that was marked "beta." Where should I look for the KDE download option?

I think I've done everything I can do with the CLI, and I'd love to try the GUI version. Thanks!

WetGeek I downloaded the second one, 2.2 Beta. It comes with KDE Plasma. No ISO with Budgie, but Budgie is in their repo.

joluveba Budgie is in their repo.

I'll download that second file and give it a try. If it had said anything about offering a GUI, I would have started with that.

The description of 2.2.i Minimal includes: "you can install it and install the desktop you want", so that's what I was trying to figure out. I installed budgie-deskop using pisi, but could find no way to use it.

Since I use Plasma on Solus, that DE will work fine for further exploration. Thanks again!