There are lost of pleasant surprises in Solus, like the swap file being 3.7 GB, instead of the Ubuntu based distros like Zoirn that allocate only 2 GB during installation.

Solus seems more responsive overall. Ubuntu based distro's have been getting slower and slower and was beginning to remind me of Windows.

Oh yeah, the first update didn't break anything like I got with Manjaro last year.

Very good experience thus far.

    adurante Very true, I must have had a uncommon bad experience with Manjaro last year. After installing Manjaro XFCE, I had an update of 1 GIG and then a lot of programs broke because of some dependency program.

    When I installed Solus this week, most of the programs were already updated and the Wi-Fi worked great too, only had a small update after the install.

    I mostly used Zorin since 2013 and it's so easy to use but have gotten slower and slower on my desktop PC.

    Solus with MATE works much better.

        adurante My experience with Manjaro was expect failures coz the leaders let out updates and then went out for a beer, and then all the users would document 50 different problems all over the forum and shout at anyone who began asking 'what's this?' and say the usual linux stuff - 'you should know, you should have read everything on all the forums', even if it's fragmented etc. It's the only one I left with a temper!

            GRB The window border theme is “Blueprint”
            Application style is “Oxygen”
            Plasma style is “Phoenix-light”
            Color style is “Penguin”
            The system icon theme is “Arc” but the panel icons have been changed individually using icons from the “ACYL” theme.
            I used KcolorChooser to match desktop colors with my Conky configs which are customized versions of two provided with MX Linux defaults.
            I also did the same to match the background color for Cumulus weather.
            The desktop analog clock is as comes standard with the Phoenix-light theme.
            I changed the panel clock font to “LCD2”.

            https://www.wfonts.com/font/lcd2

              robgriff444 Pretty much anything following this type of release path will break with updates at some point no matter what the shills would have you believe. Plenty of users are prepared for this and either follow their own update schedule to minimize the risk or are able to deal with the mess after it happens. You’re right too about the forums where users are expected to have scanned a thousand posts for a solution before asking for it themselves. From my experience Solus is one of the more stable distros available especially for new Linux users. If folks don’t need too much additional software then one of the more user friendly Gentoo based ditros such as Sabayon or Calculate are highly unlikely to ever break. Just be prepared to have your packed lunch while a new install of Sabayon updates. 😃 ROSA is also unbreakable.

                  PrimeSuspect Pretty much anything following this type of release path will break with updates at some point

                  Yeah I was on Arch and Antergos for a couple of years but when things went wrong it was like we were all in the same boat and problems were sorted reasonably but Manjaro added problems that weren't upstream in Arch, released them without enough testing, and then had shirty wars with forum posts hundreds of entries long. It was like another world that I had been teleported into for some wrong I had done in a past life lol

                      robgriff444 I agree. Endeavour promised much after Antergos went down but just a glance at the issues in their forum demonstrates what users are likely to encounter. For me moving to a Gentoo base for my work machine was a no brainer. After all, Google had the world to choose from when they made ChromeOS and chose Gentoo for the base.

                        9 days later

                        I'm on arch for the last 2 years. But, I always looked at solus. My only problem: I love my Plasma and some applications. After the Solus-Plasma-Release I switched my Thinkpad and my Workstation over to Solus-Plasma. Everything feels smooth, booting time is amazing. At the moment I'm missing only one application.

                        So, thanks to the Solus-Devs for the fantastic work! Wonderful Distro.

                          LuckyBackup. I'm using it over the years and find it easy to use with more features then grsync.

                            Thanks. Yes, I know this. In the next days I will give grsync a try. If my requirement are not suffused, I will place a request.

                            Wondering if the Solus devs would consider making linux-lts an option at install? My system freezes with linux-current, which makes installing Solus difficult.

                            24 days later

                            I've worked with Linux since 2005, started with Ubuntu, but tried others through the years (Mint, Debian, Opensuse, Fedora, Manjaro, Deepin, ...). Ubuntu is top, but not for my ten year old laptop. I'm impressed with Solus 4.1. How snappy it is and well made. Congratulations, I've never seen a more beautiful and more complete, satisfying operating system!