niingu Hi all, I have two questions for the devs. Your answers will directly influence my decision to go Solus full time or choose Fedora... Budgie 11? Any progress so far? Any new plans? I'm not even gonna ask for a release date 🙂 Donations? Is there any progress on that front? I really want to help you guys a lot but the silence is killing me. Anyways, thanks!
davidjharder niingu For 2, see the blog post about Patreon: https://getsol.us/2018/11/02/update-on-patreon/ It's old but the summary at the bottom still holds.
algent niingu I don't understand why those two answers you are looking for will stop you to use or not Solus. Budgie is only one of desktop environments of Solus, there is MATE, Gnome and Plasma. If you go to Fedora or what ever other distro, what DE are you going to use?
davidjharder niingu I think the most recent "official" response re: donations is in the FAQ. https://discuss.getsol.us/d/2772-solus-faq, Take solace that Solus has low operating expenses, and is not unduly burdening anyone. Back to 1 in your original post, Budgie 11 is somewhere in the misty future. There are however concrete goals for development of Budgie 10.5. See here: https://dev.getsol.us/T8629
niingu algent Quite simple... I really like Solus Budgie, but I need to know that it will continue improving. Changing a distro is easy, sticking to one and putting your faith in it is hard.
brent niingu Solus has been my mothership for 3+ years. They've gone above and beyond rewarding my faith. But I know what you are saying.
Scotty-Trees niingu Solus just released a hefty upgrade in 4.1 for multiple DE's and even has an official stable build of KDE Plasma! The developers do Twitch/Youtube streams as often as their busy lives allow. There's a weekly Friday sync for new updates. The Forums are very active. Someone is always around on IRC to chat. If you can't have faith in that just because a shiny new feature isn't out yet, I don't really know what to tell you. It's a super small team, one has to be understanding and patient that things may take time. The volunteer work the devs do for free are for themselves and for all users too of course. I'd say the Solus devs are some of the most passionate people about their projects in the open source community and I'm grateful and appreciative for any and all the work and effort they put forth to make this distro what it is. Is Solus going to improve? 100% of course! Solus isn't going anywhere anytime soon. A LOT of the work that's been done on Solus lately has been a bunch of backend work that users won't really see or notice too much changing, but it's all going to add up in the long run. While I can't get into specifics, somethings will get done this year and some things will get started this year! It's honestly a very exciting time to be using and following Solus and I for one am beyond enthusiastic to see the progress Solus will invidetly be making this year and for many, many more years to come!
SOLUSfiddler niingu "Changing a distro is easy, sticking to one and putting your faith in it is hard." No, sticking to SOLUS and putting my faith in it is easy, smooth, simple, nice, low-energy, manageable, good, ... ... ... 😄
niingu Scotty-Trees That is exactly what I needed! Thank you so much. I never questioned the devs and their decisions...I only wish they can sort out the donations and hopefuly have one full time developer for a start 😉 Anyways, Fedora it is for me!
niingu niingu Correction! I wrote Fedora but I really meant Solus 😉 SOLUSfiddler From now on...I put my faith in the hands of Solus devs. I really love this distro!
n2o Hmmm. Faith? To me, one of the nice things about Linux is that I don't have to have any faith at all. Switching distros is basically a matter of an hour or two and there are so many of them! Solus isn't perfect... I keep going back and forth from the current to the lts kernels and weird things happen and the first thing I did is uninstall snapd because I find it to be a mess. But I like the ideas that make up Solus and so I've been a happy camper with Solus on my main working machine for a couple of months now. It's nice and simple and Budgie is beautiful and the closest Linux ever got to the Mac (which is where I came from). And I do keep a Xubuntu machine where all the stuff goes that I don't want to have on my main machine and a Mac for some specific software.
