What is your favorite Solus edition ?

jppelt

Budgie hits the sweet spot. Historically, I use KDE as my DE. I've never like GNOME all that much. Somehow Budgie is the best of both worlds - smooth, stable and crisp. Crisp/snappy being what I prize the most.

I love the customization - just right but I don't go down the rabbit hole as it sometimes/often the case with KDE. Most of all, just really like Solus - amazing this is the work of < 20 and 2 Devs.

I've said it before, I'll say it again, can't wait to contribute whether it is via purchasing merch or small monthly contributions via community or some other means.

Thank you!

Solarmass

jppelt Budgie is the best

agree 😀

sebastian-brandt

Budgie - fast, looks and works great out of the box, little tinkering required. But would try KDE Plasma edition out of curiosity one day since I heard good things about it.

PoorPocketsMcNewHold

I prefer KDE plasma, surely because I prefer qt apps, and overhaul theming capabilities with KDE plasma.
If I had to take one Gnome de, I would surely hesitate to the controversial deepin, and Budgie, of course.

ruskofd

Budgie, because it feels way more responsive than GNOME imo (i'm a GNOME user since years). The thing I like the most about Budgie is still having the core of GNOME (apps, settings) with some interesting features (Window Shuffler, rofi-like Run dialog, Raven ❤️ ).

ycooreman

Gnome. Always Gnome.
Budgie is not customisable enough for me

jppelt

ycooreman Really? I find Budgie allows for more customization and is more intuitive than GNOME. The freedom of choice 😃

Renard

🙂 My favourite Solus edition is Solus MATE. It is blazing fast and it works well. And, I am a huge fan of the MATE desktop environment.

For the record, I have tried all of the Solus editions and the truth is that they are all good.

h3o

Renard agree, they are all incredibly well integrated.

WetGeek

Budgie for most porposes ... MATE for streaming media.

kyrios

jppelt Budgie settings are pretty simple/basic. Too basic for some who love to deeply customize their system but excellent for people who are looking for simplicity and like to find essential things without having to search in a jungle of parameters (looks towards plasma).
Budgie's phylosophy is to not get in the way so the user can focus on the tasks he/she is busy with.

ycooreman

jppelt I'm used to my extensions I guess, of which there are many

ycooreman

kyrios It certainly does that, but not more so that Gnome in my opinion. I see its advantage more in the slightly lighter resource use and the fact that it's default setup is more classic/dare I say 'usable' than Gnome for new users. Especially those coming from Windows or Mac

Brucehankins

kyrios Plasma is like "Hey here's the settings menu. Every setting has at least 3 sub-settings, and all of those can be further customized another 12 times. Oh and if you're not happy with that, we have a separate settings app for that!"

ycooreman

Brucehankins
Plasma has setting to control settings.
This is what Plasma setting look like to me:

This is setting A
Do you want to see setting A?
Should setting A be called setting B instead?
Only show setting A if setting B is enabled, but only on a Sunday
Don't show any settings
Show only odd settings
Remove setting with less than 5 characters in the name if clocks are in summer time
Call settings "Bjorgenstompherungs"
...

jppelt

ycooreman I never liked vanilla GNOME w/ the (minority) exception of enjoying not having Xs and Os on the top right bar. I used KDE for a long time but always went down the customization rabbit hole. Felts this compulsive need to customize just because I could. Budgie came into my life and I never looked back...

ycooreman

jppelt Gnome sometimes feels like it went too far the other way, taking too much out, but at least you can add things in again with extensions. I have to admit, that's maybe not the best approach for completely new users. KDE users are right, KDE is a lot more customisable, but that's mostly good if you enjoy customisation for the sake of customising. I have no problem with that of course - it's not too different from distro hopping in that respect. In the end, the main reason I don't like KDE is because it looks like a bling cousin of Windows and I want to get as far away from Windows as I can possibly be

jppelt

ycooreman Then there are those who want to be Mac alternative and look too much like Mac OS. I want to avoid both...yes, DE hopping, it was a thing. I used to customize my KDE until it looked a little like what I now have with Budgie - did not want a Windows look. GNOME icons feel almost too childish too. The worst is Elementary OS - I feel like I'm in a Kindergarten class.

ycooreman

jppelt I've been a Mac user for a long time (still am, work laptop and personally for making music). MacOS is great but I don't like Apple's business model and their attitude towards privacy and personal data, no matter what Apple says. And the last thing I want is for Linux to look like MacOS. What would be the point of that! It's like cheating on your wife with a copy of your wife

Brucehankins

jppelt I actually don't mind elementary OS. I like the Pantheon DE and think it does look pretty nice. But it's just like Catalina.
I was distro hopping for almost a year before I found Solus. Since finding it, I've stuck with Budgie, but I've also got Plasma, Mate, and Gnome on VMs.....I may have a problem....

kyrios

ycooreman what's wrong with their attitude towards privacy and personal data ?

ycooreman

kyrios I don't believe them. They will collect, sell and share as they see fit, whether you agreed to that or not

ycooreman

kyrios This won't be the last time you see articles like this https://www.techradar.com/uk/amp/news/server-failure-unearths-massive-macos-tracking-plans 😋

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