zmaint Every distro going have issues just nature of software Solus compared to fedora and others
for dev support I think is above the rest. The last issue we had should speak for itself In our instant
gratification lifestyles now days people need to come to the conclusion it takes alittle time to fix some issues.

Kinda like having a great car you got have great mechanic..

But I agree
Solus is stable, Solus is reliable, Solus runs great, Solus has a great team and a great community, Solus is home.

      zmaint 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.

      WetGeek I examined it for the "Other Interesting Distros" thread.

      ^^ similar for me as well.

      if Solus became no more I would not look to a 'major' distro either. I would be eyeballing another scrappy independent. Probably Alpine.

      I've done enough distro-hopping now that I can say without any doubt that Solus is the best. It's almost entirely headache-free and the prettiest on the eyes year after year.

          Axios Kinda like having a great car you got have great mechanic..

          my regular mechanic (who is good but very moody) cried and moaned about having to replace my clutch and slave cylinder (dropping the transmission) so I took my car elsewhere today. On pins and needles today---using a new mechanic.

          your analogy is perfect since I've lived the incompetence, sometimes life-threatening, of bad mechanics. car is only good as the people who keep it running 💯 .

            Axios I've been on Solus since the day the Plasma version went live, and this most recent issue was the only one I've had that was actually Solus related... I feel a bit spoiled 🙂 Even way back when I was on Windows 7 I puckered up before updates. The vast majority of the time the only solution if something broke there was to just reinstall.

            Many years ago I did some IT and my company decided to migrate from a Definity phone switch (Unix) to a Cisco phone switch (Windows 2000). I literally had to re-install Windows every week, sometimes twice. We ended up yanking the entire thing out just short of two months (very nearly ended up in court with Cisco), and went back to the Definity. I was there 10 years and the Unix system crashed exactly......... none times. I simply cannot fathom why anyone would use Windows for anything critical.

            Side note, I drove by the local Arvest (bank) and they had a Geek Squad truck out front. Grateful I don't bank at Arvest lol.

                zmaint You must be in my neck of the woods somewhere at least 4 state radius.
                Oh I did small business phone systems nothing big got in one deals also ripped it all out and put in
                Comdial.

                  1. Void Linux (runit, xbps, fast, minimalist, bloat-free, build-your-own-linux, independent, rolling release)
                    I used Void for a short while last year, its package manager (xbps) is extremely fast and capable.
                    I can specify and run services that I want, runit is init manager, no bloatedness.
                    Overall a very no-nonsense distribution with helpful community.

                  2. NixOS (immutable, atomic updates with rollbacks, Nix language, declarative config, reproducible, distro of choice in high finance)
                    One of a kind distro built from the ground up to be fundamentally different from all other distributions.
                    A lot of chatter in tech circles on NixOS.
                    It has a lot of strengths but supposedly has a steep learning curve.

                  If not Solus then SerpenOS is for me. 😉

                  4 days later

                  If not SolusOS then Arch, which is what I have on my notebook.