[deleted] oh really? I never knew this. It seems interesting that Solus started as an ubuntu derivative 😮 . I also read in some linux news sites that Solus was also based on chrome os( or something like that). Is that true too?
btw, glad that Solus is no longer based on ubuntu
I was a bit wrong.. from this article it seems Solus was based on Debian.. close but not exactly Ubuntu.
"It was started in 2011, as “Solus OS” initially as a spin-off of Debian, featuring the GNOME 2 desktop. Development continued on this operating system, including on a new desktop environment, and it went through a couple of name changes, finally landing on just “Solus”."
Also according to this Phoronix article titled, "Budgie: A Lightweight, Chrome OS Inspired, GNOME-Aligned Desktop" (which predates the period when Ikey was hired) Budgie was inspired by Chrome OS and was available through Ubuntu PPAs.
IIRC I believe that back then the concept of Solus was supposed to have been cloud-centric.. instead of having to download a Google Photos linux app (which has never existed) you would have Google, Microsoft, etc products all accessible by built in web wrapper.
I seem to remember reading an article about this but I couldn't find it.. but how I remember the article made it seem very similar to Peppermint OS. Peppermint and their ICE web wrapper program let you create web wrappers for everything instead of needing programs.