What is your favorite Solus edition ?

mrpywy

I like Budgie because it has an elegant desk, and grants great customization capabilities to the user, very good the issue of notifications, the control center and the layout of the elements

robertproulx001

kyrios I,m a linux user for ten years now, Solus is my day to day distro and I,m so pleased with it.

sgvd

Used budgie exclusively, but got annoyed by some things that didn't work very nicely. Then installed KDE and am very pleased. I am not even inclined to customize anything, which is rare for me 🤣

dinhnam

sgvd Same to me, just a problem with Asian input method in KDE/qt apps. Do you have any problem with Brightness Function key, like this:
Brightness control not working well when playing media in Firefox
"I have problem with function key fn+f4/f5 to adjust my backlight, but this problem just knock on me when i am playing media in Firefox like music, video, so weird @_@. I can use function key, but when i press fn+f4/f5 one time, slide bar suddenly go down/up continuously until it reach limit and i can't do anything but see it automatic changes itself. Others place backlight fn+f4/f5 work fine, except website has media in Firefox ?!? Before i see this bug has happened in Ubuntu lts 18.4 (but in almost places), but i can fix by switch session to Wayland. But Solus doesn't offer this option yet. Oh wait...i'm using Solus Plasma up to date. I have installed xbacklight, powertop, but neither of them work for me. And sometime after bug i hit a whole system freezes that i can't do anything (include open up Terminal using Ctrl+alt+f2) except a force shutdown by press power button. Very annoying if i want to change laptop backlight while watching Youtube or listen to music online."

JohannPopper

I love GNOME Shell in general, but I'd probably use the Budgie edition if there were an applet port of Andy Holmes' masterful GSConnect (or if I could make one). As it is, I choose not to live without that luminous extension in my life.

Plasma edition is easily the best Plasma implementation (well, really it's the great unbreakable Solus curated app store) I've ever reviewed by every rational criterion of desktop usage, and its performance + graphical effects far outshine GNOME Shell (although GNOME apps and the Shell workflow are elegant beyond expectation, let's get real). However, again, KDE Connect, despite being the foundation of GSConnect, isn't nearly as useful as what Andy Holmes has done with GSConnect.

So, I'm stuck with Solus GNOME for now. 'Stuck' as in all distro hopping ceased for me way back in 2017 upon first trying Solus GNOME. It's just that good. One continuous system for 2 years, upgrading constantly, barely any bugs and they don't last long. I have been to the mountain.

MTech

For now GNOME. It's simple and gets out of my way. And I like to work with workspaces, somehow it feels more natural in Gnome than in Budgie

evert

Allready for years : Solus Gnome.
Greetings, Evert

Jcmich

kyrios I use Mate too. It's the first DE I also use on different distros.

10thDoctor

I prefer GNOME but must admit I have never tried Budgie. Maybe some day when I feel like tinkering I will give it a go to compare them since so many of you seem to prefer it.

maskarin

Until the strat I use budgie

sgvd

dinhnam I don't have solus on a laptop, so I am not sure I can verify this behaviour...

v3l0ct

budgie budgie budgie, I did try the gnome version recently and it's pretty cool but I like budgie better.

darknetmatrix

budgie with the mate version in virtualbox, not a fan of gnome

papakanush

Big Gnome fan. Budgie is very nice, but once I got used to not using a windows type main menu and layout, I don't really care to go back to it now. Gnome is very smooth and more intuitive for me now. What I like the most about Gnome is the method of accessing multiple virtual desktops is, to me, very nice. The other traditional system using a panel widget or using my mouse wheel on the background was......meh. My mouse wheel seemed more prone to accidentally switch the desktop on me, which was annoying.

Gnome does consume more resources, (which is really not an issue on my 16 GB RAM machine).Solus Gnome does seem to run lighter on the RAM than others I have tried (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Manjaro).

Works great! Thanks Solus!

Daffy_ie

Out of the Solus offerings I prefer Budgie, and 2ndly Mate.

Budgie has everything I need a and more.. Its elegant, easy to customise and runs on any hardware. I have it running on an X120, Optiplex and a Thinkpad 480. It never has problems and is solid rock stable. I've Distro hooped over many years but always come back to Budgie Solus for Sanity and reliability.

DJSupertel

kyrios I run both Mate and Budgie but have found I tend to use Mate as main desktop as it is slightly less of a drain on resources on my old HP desktop PC . I still say Solus is best Linux OS out there! Snappy, fast and very quick to boot up! I think that if plasma is adopted as an official release it would soon start to catch up with Budgie. I installed testing version of plasma and found it superb until some updates broke it! The latest Kubuntu 19.10 blew me away on how low its ram usage is so maybe Solus Plasma should be adopted in the future as it could be a big winner alongside the Budgie flagship!

N1X3L

Budgie is a large part of why I made the change to Solus. I tried KDE's Plasma while testing out Manjaro, and I just hated it. Granted, I came from using Linux Mint before adopting a rolling release distro model. It was much easier for me to transition from Cinnamon to Budgie, than it was to Plasma. And of course, Plasma has it's advantages, and I'm told has more to offer power users. But for me, Budgie is intuitive and elegant, and that's exactly what I was seeking.

To be completely honest though, I really miss Nemo file manager. Nautilus gets the job done, but it's no Nemo.

WetGeek

N1X3L Budgie is a large part of why I made the change to Solus.

I've tried Budgie, Mate, and Plasma initially in VMs and later on hardware. Gnome has never appealed to me, so I skipped that one. Budgie is the only one that's done everything right by me. Mate has problems with the dual monitors on my dev workstation, and Plasma just won't produce any sound on that machine. So I've pretty much settled on Budgie for any serious work there. Budgie seems to understand what I need.

evert

Gnome

Pan-Nikt

I've been using Budgie for some time but now I moved to Gnome. It simply suits me more.

Renard

🙂 Hmm. It looks as though I am in the minority. I love and use Solus MATE.

For the record, all of the editions of Solus are absolutely fantastic!

Jcmich

Renard
I agree and think that Mate is the best Solus edition.
I would also like to thank all the developers for their hard work maintaining this outstanding distro.

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