I play with Linux distro's mainly in virtual machines, with a view to keeping various old Mac's alive, and with a view to keeping my computing skills up to date. So far,I rather like Solus, but it is causing me a lot of difficulties during the installation, in fixing screen resolution and screen size. The kind of thing one had to deal with when trying out Linux 15 years ago. Next, the big upgrades which have to be done before you can do any real work tend to fail halfway and one needs to try again, I suppose because there are not many servers out there hosting Solus. Finally, I can't easily run R and R Studio, which means I need to install a virtual machine in my virtual machine in order to do some real work after I have finished the play- and learning part. At least it seems that Texlive is available. Oh well. I suppose " 'tis early days yet".

    I have installed and used many Linux Distro's but Solus is the best! I wouldn't want to switch to another distro as my main driver unless Solus project was stopped!

    Arch (Salient OS, or ArcoLinuxD), OpenSuse Tumbleweed is a close 2nd.

    I've hopped between many Debian based distros. Before Solus I was using Neon, for the semi-rolling release model. But it used to break often, and it wasn't as light as budgie. But at home my PC is with Linux Mint installed.

    Probably Manjaro or Ubuntu, both Budgie editions. Or I'd go back to windows 🙁.

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    It's hard to say. I ended up looking for a rolling release at Solus because I don't get bombarded with unchecked updates all the time. So there is not much left except a LTS version like Ubuntu or Q4OS or even AntiX.

    With the distributions that are specially designed for old hardware I see the problem that they get stuck on old kernel numbers. So then Ubuntu or Debian.

    Solus is my only operating system at the moment and I hope it can stay that way.

    Before Solus I used eOS. I know that I strongly dislike Gnome and am not a huge fan of KDE either, so I probably would have gone back to that. I do prefer more up to date packages, but Manjaro/Arch never felt right for me.

    TL;DR I would have issues with every other option, but probably the least with eOS.

    Opensuse Tumbleweed. I like rolling distros, and Opensuse Tumbleweed is a fantastic distro that fits my needs perfectly.
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    Pop OS. Its the only distro I've used where the gaming experience is on par with Solus

      Neumie isn't Manjaro trying to offer o more or less curated version of Arch rolling releases?

          gill1109

          There is a native package available for rstudio: sudo eopkg install rstudio

          Solus is best experienced on physical hardware but should run fine as a virtual machine for testing purposes. I am running Solus unstable in a virtualbox vm. Screen resolution, and resizing isn't a problem.
          Maybe forgot something or didn't choose optimal vm configuration settings, like selecting vboxsvga as virtual graphics card, or installing open-vm-tools & xorg-driver-video-vmware on vmware?
          What kind of virtualization software are you using?

            Playing with Manjaro and Arch, but wouldn't use is as my daily driver. Ubuntu Budgie looks awesome and works fine and I like the smooth look and feel of Zorus OS but once you are used to the rolling updates and performance of Solus...
            Respect to the Solus developers for building and maintaining it, unbelievable what a small team with a drive and a shared vision can do.

            So for me it's Solus all the way, debian and ubuntu on servers.

            Nobody looking at Clear Linux?

            bvdlingen As i understand it Manjaro is Arch but just easier to setup and get running. It's still right on the rickety edge.
            Solus tends to wait for a few patch releases for a piece of software. We can still see the edge...but there is a fence and a bit of distance between Solus and the bleeding edge which suits my needs just fine.

              Already running Peppermint 10 Respin on my main laptop.
              Praying for that community at this time.

              Running openSUSE Tumbleweed Plasma in Gnome Boxes, and would be comfortable moving to it IF the need arises.

              Was getting frustrated with the last few Solus updates, and when I upgraded my rig last week I loaded a tweaked Manjaro Architect set up that I ran for two days, and gave up and put in a fresh Solus install. Thing runs better than I expected after the upgrades, and I am now just jumping through the last of the tweaks to make it perfect. This is my gaming and streaming rig, so I hope it stays stable for longer than the last Solus system, Over a year, I had like 4 updates pooch my ability to play 2 of my fave games (Diablo 3 and GTA V) and a few other hiccups that were really annoying. I just want a gaming system that stays stable for around 2 years, as that seems to be my upgrade cycle lately. I kind of miss the windows xp days, when a system hard drive could just be swapped to a new build every 2 years, for around 8 years total.

              🤔 If Solus was not around, I would have been using either Manjaro Linux or Linux Mint.

              Fedora.
              I've checked it recently to see the pure Gnome experience. I really liked it. My Brother printer was automatically installed and working fine.
              However I'm staying with Solus due to it's fast boot, forum/community and all other things which I might but will not enumerate here.