What is your favorite Solus edition ?

Justin

abhijeet I'm not going to waste time building it if you've already decided on GNOME.

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I prefer Budgie but I also use KDE (great implementation btw! I even love the Solus icon on the app launcher).

Budgie on my desktop and KDE on my laptop where the screen is 1080p but at 14 inches it treats it like some HiDPI display. I think for now Plasma plays better with scaling for me. Ended up mixing themes so they're both adapta theme/papirus icons. 😃

Angelwolf

I've never gotten on well with KDE. Budgie looks nice but for me, I feel most comfortable with MATE.

Balkatov

Budgie is my favourite. I first tried MATE, but it had difficulties with my touchpad.

WetGeek

Balkatov Budgie is my favourite.

Mine, too. And I've tried them all, except Gnome, which I don't care for at all. To me, Plasma appears too heavy and sluggish, Mate has problems with my dual monitors, and I've never found anything to dislike about Budgie. To me, it seems to be the Goldilocks of DEs.

aquasp

asafniv Wow, do you have a better battery with kde than in budgie?

Catx

Solus OS Budgie edition is the best of the best! I love it! 😀 many thanks to the Solus team, you rock!

WhiteWolf

GNOME all time!

PrinceOfClay

kyrios If its Linux then its Plasma.. Budgie is very good though, but nowhere near as customizable and as eye pleasing as Plasma imo!

Renard

🙂 I am a hardcore MATE user; therefore, Solus MATE will always be my favourite edition of Solus!

Kepos

Actually Budgie, but would like to see a Deepin UI desktop, which I overall rate excellent.

Justin

Kepos Deepin Desktop is available from 3rd party source for Solus but not supported by the Solus team.

Optomek

Budgie. Before Solus I was long time LXDE user, so I thought Mate would be the best for me, but after trying Budgie it was clear that I was wrong. 😉

mwplunkett

Budgie ... just keeps getting better. The more I experiment with others, the more I like budgie.

WetGeek

mwplunkett Budgie ... just keeps getting better.

Depends on the application. I use MATE for my media server, because there's never a screen tear or jumpiness to moving objects or people. Budgie is on the other computers here, though.

Maybe the Budgie team could find out what makes the MATE desktop so smooth for videos, and merge them into the all-time best DE?

paracetamol

WetGeek If your machines use nvidia cards, this ArchWiki article can be helpful.

Optomek

WetGeek I use Budgie and have no problems with screen tearing, skipped frames or freezing of video. One of my laptops has... 2GB of RAM. I can plug it in to my TV and use streaming services in 720p. That wasn't the case with many so called light weight distros.

WetGeek

I guess I should have mentioned that MATE on my media server is straight-out-of-the-box. No searching for solutions, no installing extra drivers, no creating/modifying .cfg files. It just works perfectly as-is. And that's with a 4K Ultra HD TV.

paracetamol

Apologies for trying to help.

WetGeek

paracetamol Apologies for trying to help.

No apologies needed at all. The question was, "What's your favorite Solus edition?"

I think it's great that we can all have our own favorites, for whatever purposes we use them. I just happen to have two favorites.

UncleGranpa

Coming from a powerful Windows desktop environment (gaming machine) Plasma is more to my liking

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