JoshStrobl I made some other observations during my time running Solus. One of them is that non-admin users cannot install software packages, perform updates or run commands through sudo. This may seem obvious, but I have run a couple of operating systems so far this year where non-privileged users could do just about anything on a system and it was refreshing to see Solus enforces users' roles.

I think that users should be able to upgrade but not add/remove, they are dangerous commands. Remove lightdm and the system is dead, remove bash, dead, etc.

      Justin I think someone running amok adding/removing dependencies without knowing will torpedo the OS. I've done it in the beginning just being clumsy.
      But using sudo to get rid of clutter I never felt that bad about. In other words, went to INSTALLED tab at the SC. Saw all the stuff I thought I'd love but never used. Big list! Thinned out all the packages/apps I no longer had interest in. Did not feel I was living on the edge at all. The key to not ruining the OS is discerning the lone DEPS from the big packages. Instinct?
      P.S.--the stuff you greyed out that can't be removed even with sudo is smarter than you know as far as steering one from danger. but one still needs their wits, I know.

        I thought it was a really well done review, +/- equal real assessment.

        JoshStrobl nice reply's and great to hear the Installer will get work. This seems to be the one major question here and the old forum. People have such a hard time following instructions. (another decade and they will need a robot to tie their shoes)
        stay positive. 😄

          kyrios Yeah I don't think those would cause issue. Would be interesting to have a system where a package list could be held by admin which can't be added/removed maybe.

            11 days later

            Yeah, and a thing or two he mentions simply isn't so. But all in all, it's a positive review.

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            Toggling the dark theme off wasn't enough, I also had to change the widget theme to Pluma-Light or better yet Pluma. This can be more streamlined.

            Isn't Pluma the MATE text editor?

            I noticed there was a GRUB menu, controlled by Solus. So if I'm not mistaken, the dev team must have chosen to abandon the custom bootloader setup and just go with what pretty much 100% of Linux distros use, and this sure is a better, more streamlined option.

            What custom bootloader? It's systemd-boot. Not a "custom bootloader setup".

              JoshStrobl

              Unfortunately not much we can do on that front beside just not providing any YELP-based documentation to begin with, but then you'd just get errors if you click on the Help menu items for applications, and we'd have to patch every single one. I guarantee you upstream GNOME would reject documentation improvements that document how do you do x, y, and z under Budgie since they just care about GNOME Shell.

              It surprises me that there isn't a more modular set of documentation for distros to call on and only use specific components of depending on the software installed on their distros. Something to add to my far-future projects list, though I'm a bit busy with my uni workload atm xD. It's an interesting point though, because with how much Linux distros share components, it's surprising that you don't also have an easier way to share documentation.

                  13 days later

                  edivan Review of solus 4 after the release of Budgie 11

                  When Budgie 11 will be released, Solus 4 will be old already !

                      25 days later

                      another review https://www.cmscritic.com/solus-review-budgie-edition/

                      To be fair to other distributions, I'm giving Solus a 4/5 but this is mostly due to the size of the software repositories which are still quite small compared with other distros. While I don't consider this an issue for most people, including myself, I do think we need to see an increase before it's the Perfect distro. I will say, however, that it's pretty damn close.

                        Lucien_Lachance

                        Due to the fact that Solus was developed from scratch, the repositories are nowhere near as large as they are on other systems such as Ubuntu and Arch but to be honest, I found everything I needed and was quite impressed to see that there was nothing I felt I was lacking.

                        Funny 🙂