I'll never go back to a "regular release" distro (used Mint, Kubuntu, Pop, and Fedora), that was an unmitigated disaster. Every upgrade something broke. While I could fix my own machine most of the time, half of my friends and family are out of state. It gets old driving 4 hours to fix broken updates at minimum twice a year. I decided that rolling for me was the way to go... tried Arch. That went ok for a few months, then it just started breaking. Everytime I'd update (daily) there'd be package conflicts or something would be missing a dependency, pure unstable hell. All I do is use Steam, Lutris, Brave, and Libreoffice and it just broke constantly. Not to mention Nvidia support on all of these is quite terrible, with all of them at the time requiring copying and pasting random shit off the internet and crossing your fingers that it would work. sudo apt *purge* nvidia is burned into my mind.
I also discovered during this time that I loved KDE Plasma. Cinnamon and Budgie were ok, but man anything Gnome based is super rigid and extensions were the first thing to break with updates. I got the impression that it was the Gnome way or the highway and anything that deviated from what they considered their "desktop experience" they actively tried to sabotage (my opinion).
Out of sheer panic when we went through our dark times, I tested several additional distros in VM's. The only thing that even looked remotely as decent was Tumbleweed. That being said I did cartwheels when Josh made the post about righting the ship.
Solus is stable, Solus is reliable, Solus runs great, Solus has a great team and a great community, Solus is home.
