@MMB I will never go back to Win in my lifetime unless it's 7, and if it's 7 we're dead anyway because it's a hacker's ball (end of life support). That's pretending it was never hacker's ball. I considered briefly a return to OSX but I can't see where it has evolved from 10-15 years ago and I still use it at one job. Just like in 2005. I notice nothing different...
JohannPopper If it was a "doomsday scenario" then I'm here. It's a rightfully proud team here that can't tell the good guys from the bad guys quite often--nature of any blog community I guess when all comm is digtal. Hopefully someday soon they will let my (our) cash do the talking; solus deserves it.. Suse is like a wrestling match to operate. The others bore. Pop looks lovely too. Watched some reviews today. But Ubu, Deb, and Fed never did nothing for me as far as an ethos, if that makes sense, Commander (Lt.), although I'm down with foss all day and night...
A guy named @WetGeek said it best a few days ago that solus makes it so easy and gorgeous that it's hard to remember the others. Hope they can take that to the bank someday.

      Hello
      I would add to my first message a distibution discovered for me these last day named MX Linux that seems pretty good at all.

        adurante with a good theme I think it's nice. I don't see any real difference visually between it and mate, plasma, lxde etc.

        I prefer Thunar to Nautilus/Nemo too... it's nice and simple.

          adurante I totally agree! My main was MX for quite awhile but I just couldn't go back to a DE that has the ugly XFCE lol. I have tried Ubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Fedora, Arch, Clear... then went back to MX because it just works.. But I couldnt settle on the ugly interface. Saw Solus one day and thought, "Why havent I tried this one yet?" and BOOM. Fell in love. Perfectly light with a great looking DE. SOLD!

            good evening
            Quite ok I'm not surprised at all by your answers it is true that Xf ... I have not tried a lot good I'm not happy, against Mx resources level to not siter seems to me greedy mons ??? it's just to have your impressions? for a very very old laptop

            I'ḿ use Debian and Solus, two PC.

            5 days later

            I would probably just distro-hop between the Debian/Ubuntu based and Arch-Based

            Even though i hated my experience with Manjaro and Arch in general.
            But for me Linux is pretty much the same wherever i go, things like
            GNU in general never change so what matters most to me is how the distro's usability is like.
            And Solus fits my lazy non-problem solving self. 😂

            I think I have quite a bit of Linux experience (as a user only, though). Started very long time ago with SuSE (bought installation CD's back then, because downloading via modem connection would not have worked 🙂. Switched to Ubuntu, using different desktops (mostly depending on computer hardware) from there, via Sparky and Manjaro, to Solus.

            Now, I have to admit, I'm using a dual boot system with Manjaro (XFCE) and Solus (Budgie) as some packages, I use from time to time, are not available in Solus.

            Solus is the daily driver. Main reasons: Lightning fast boot (a few seconds only on an ASUS laptop with SSD) and stability.

            To answer the "poll": I would be using Manjaro.

            Though my daily driver is Solus, I'm also fond of Ubuntu (specifically Mate) as I've grown familiar with it as it's required for my work.
            On server, I like btrfs/snapper quite a bit, so I'm also fond of OpenSUSE, but their desktop experience leaves quite a bit to be desired IMO.

              ofperfection On server, I like btrfs/snapper quite a bit, so I'm also fond of OpenSUSE, but their desktop experience leaves quite a bit to be desired IMO.

              openSUSE offers quite a number of desktop experiences. I'm curious which one you didn't like? My favorite was Xfce, and I disliked gnome, but mostly because it was so unfamiliar to me. There was not enough configuration available to make me want to use it.

                a month later

                for my daily use it would have to be another stale Distro as this is my No1 Priority. Also my main use is for Audio work so it either be Ubuntu Studio or Maybe Mint with the Ubuntu Studio Apps installed. But thank heaven this is a hypothetical questions anyway. :-)

                After deciding to move from Mint to another GNU/Linux distro, and trying a plethora of others, my requirements were: an x86_64 curated rolling-release desktop environment, that offered either Budgie or Cinnamon, and wasn't too obscure (i.e., had a viable community to interact with, and ask support questions of). Ultimately, I chose between Solus, Manjaro, openSUSE: Tumbleweed, and ArcoLinuxB. My experience with Manjaro's AUR was a train wreck, and I was judgy about their SoftMaker FreeOffice debacle. OpenSUSE: Tumbleweed didn't feel curated enough too me, so it was a bit shaky as an end-user experience. I really like ArcoLinuxB and still keep tabs on it, but it seemed to me that the amount of desktop environments they're offering has them spread a bit thin, and the Solus community appealed to me more. As an aside, why the Solus community has a reputation for being unfriendly continues to baffle. Were I to adopt an x86_64 curated rolling-release desktop environment that wasn't GNU/Linux, it would absolutely be Project Trident. Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. 😅

                Manjaro, Arch or Mint, all 3 of which I run on other machines. I hoped Solus would be right distro for use on my gaming and surfing machine, but alas, after a year on Solus, with many gaming issues, I may be reloading this machine with an Arch based build on top of BareMetal.