Solus Leads

Brucehankins

I know that it's still fairly early since Josh's announcement, but I was wondering if there has already been discussions about the leadership of Solus moving forward. There are many wonderful global maintainers and contributors to the project, so I know it will be in good hands, just curious how the new structure will look.

brent

Brucehankins There are many wonderful global maintainers and contributors to the project, so I know it will be in good hands, just curious how the new structure will look.

Harvey Way too early to even speculate on that.

yikes. the reddit threads have already declared us dead...

Harvey

Way too early to even speculate on that.

Harvey

brent
They have done that since day 1 of Solus. I do not know what the future holds and neither do they.

Brucehankins

brent I doubt that. There is still B, Girt, Algent, and many many others contributing to the project. As many of the core contributors have said, they do it because it's what they want to use it. As long as it's still people who build and produce Linux ISO's distro of choice, it will be around in one form or another. Arch, Void, and many others have gone through big leadership changes in the past, it's just something that happens from time to time.

DataDrake

Official Statement:

hunzel

DataDrake looking forward to news there. Wishing you all the best for this process!

Maybe it would be a good idea to combine the announcements of the future plans with some links to how anybody could participate. (links like this: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/7014-becoming-a-package-maintainer/3) So this could turn out with some new people getting into it, because they don't want to let the project die.

mbevks

This is a big opportunity for those involved. I hope we see this as an inflection point of increased involvement and development. Solus OS is one of the best distros out there!

tomscharbach

We'll have to see what the future brings, but I'm confident that the Solus team will reorganize and Solus will continue to develop, just as it did when Ikey Doherty left the project. Solus is a remarkable OS, unique and (it seems to me) a beacon for the future of Linux as a deskop OS. I will continue to financially support the project, which is what I can do to help. I thank others who have good technical skills and contribute talent and time and hope that they will step up as needed.

WetGeek

tomscharbach I'm confident that the Solus team will reorganize and Solus will continue to develop,

If not, it brings new meaning to the threads about "what distro would you be using if not Solus"? Unfortunately, I've never seen one that comes close.

tomscharbach

WetGeek

WetGeek If not, it brings new meaning to the threads about "what distro would you be using if not Solus"? Unfortunately, I've never seen one that comes close.

Yes, it does. I thought about it a bit today. About a year ago, in that thread, I said this:

"I honestly don't know what I'd do if Solus were discontinued. Truth be told, I'd probably drop Linux if Solus were discontinued. I'm long-since retired and no longer have a work-related need to use Linux. I use Solus because I like it so much. Solus is fun to use, rock-solid, and the Solus team/community is great. Solus was designed to be a desktop environment, nothing more, and it is near perfect for that purpose. So who knows? If Solus were discontinued, I might buy a Macbook laptop and learn the MacOS environment. Two of my sons have been nagging me about Apple for years and years, and I've never tried it. I like my iPhone, so I'd probably like MacOS, and if iOS is any indication, MacOS will be rock solid and easy on my geezer psyche."

That really hasn't changed. I'm not at all interested in Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives (having enough experience to know better), and I'm not interested in the learning curve I'd face with Arch and derivatives. I use Solus because it is a wonderful distro and fun to use. Like you, I've never seen anything that comes close. I've long since gotten over "Linux for the sake of Linux" thinking, so if Solus is discontinued, I'd probably make a choice between Windows/MacOS and call it a day. I'm 75 and can't see myself fighting with other distros when I'm 80.

brent

tomscharbach I did not re-check my comment on that thread, I remember: "I would go back to Win 7." None of the derivatives have impressed me; this is the pinnacle for Linux in my eyes.

WetGeek Unfortunately, I've never seen one that comes close.

Indeed.

WetGeek

tomscharbach I'm 75 and can't see myself fighting with other distros when I'm 80.

Same here, Tom.

Brucehankins

tomscharbach I thought about it a bit today

I thought about it for about a second yesterday. I've definitely thought about it more over the years, mostly because of my distro hopping nature. The more I'm on Solus though, the less everything else appeals to me.

tomscharbach I'm not at all interested in Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives

Nor do I. I don't like apt and I'd much prefer something that is current and just behind the bleeding edge. Fedora and I don't get along, Manjaro is Manjaro.....so that's a no. Arch is too complicated for my needs, and derivatives like endeavor while interesting are also more complicated than it's worth for my needs. Some would work well, but I worry about their longevity. I lean towards openSUSE, but it would have to.be Tumbleweed because 36-72 months between feature updates on Leap is just too long for me.

WetGeek

Brucehankins I lean towards openSUSE, but it would have to.be Tumbleweed

That's the distro that I used for longer than any other -- far longer than I've used Solus. I especially appreciated YaST, as it let me provide my password just once, and then do whatever maintenance was needed, without constantly asking for credentials. I'm downloading their newest .ISO file now, just to see what's new with Tumbleweed.

And no, I'm not giving up on Solus already -- in fact, I'm not even creating a USB stick for openSUSE. I just want to create a VM to see what it's now like just in case there's any reason for me to change in the future. I sincerely hope that there's never any need to do that.

LATER: Well, I'm back, and not particularly encouraged about the last couple of hours I've spent trying to get openSUSE working in a VirtualBox VM. For one thing, the only way I could get the display to stay in full HD resolution was to log on as root. Logging on as a regular user would allow me to set 1920x1080 as the display resolution, but by pressing [Apply] it would jump to that size, and then immediately return to 800x600. So I needed to log on as root in order to continue my exploration.

I realize this is undoubtedly a VirtualBox issue, not an openSUSE issue, but no amount of fussing with the VB settings would solve the problem. And I'm a very experienced VirutalBox user, if I say so myself.

Running as root, then, I tried to do a bit of configuration. I could neither install Vivaldi nor the Micro command line editor. The only community repository that was available was Packman, and adding that didn't help. Using Firefox (the default browser) to download the Vivaldi .RPM installer from their website didn't help. The SUSE installer wouldn't install it.

Obviously, I would not have had the VBoxClient errors if I were installing onto hardware but I'm not ready for that yet. And I'm not ready to abandon the world's best browser, and the best CLI text editor. I didn't even try to find Restic, my backup software. That would be another show-stopper if I couldn't install that.

I set out to try the newest version of openSUSE, and now I've done that. I'm going to remove that VM now.

codewizard1975

I've been personally using Solus for awhile now and have seen nothing but a solid and trustworthy leadership over the project. Plus there's been a strong and friendly community here too.

I have no fears that Solus will ever really end, still enough people on here who'll step up and help keep it going.

craigtoyoracer

I learned long ago, Life is fluid not static. Right now Solus is the best for me. 😄

The new year should bring an interesting new option. 😥

Andril

I support whoever picks up the role as we sail on...

Neumie

Best of luck to Josh in whatever he works on going forward and cheers to him for all his contributions to Solus over the years 🙂.

The other members of the team like DataDrake have also been great though so no panic stations from me regarding using Solus. Hopefully they still get a kick out of working on Solus too.

For me personally: as long as the backend is relatively up to date (hardware support stuff: kernel, Mesa etc.), Security is kept an eye on and Firefox is kept up to date (things the team have been great at since i have been using Solus) I'm happy out.

xjdwc

I've been a user since Solus 3 Budgie's initial release. To say I've settled in, is an understatement. Solus is home. The things I've come to value are the following:

a pragmatic, user-focused experience with a well-curated repository (Simple, Fast, and Free)
Solus Team (Hard Work & Dedication)
Eopkg!!! (Straight Forward & Logical)
Solus Plasma (My Personal Favorite)
Solus Forum (Both the Community & Flarum as a Service)

I'm a very simple person. I don't want complicated. I love Solus. I love the name. The logo. The User Experience. I'm not interested in finding another distro. I'm not an advanced user. Tbh, I just use my laptop to browse the web, manage home & work stuff, listen to music, and take notes. I could do that on any distro, I know, but it wouldn't be the same. Solus is just right for my needs. I will be keeping an eye on Serpent OS, only due to the Solus connection (Former Devs). From what I gather, it's not a Solus 2.0, seems a little more advanced and above my level of understanding. Time will tell.

Let Open Collective be a reminder that the Solus Community have belief in the Solus Team. We love Solus.

The future is unknown. But I know this, I may not be the captain, but I will go down with the ship.

Brucehankins

WetGeek I grabbed a Tumbleweed .iso also and chose the minimal option for install. I wanted to see what the experience was like installing the Budgie desktop and configuring that, I know Plasma is fully supported. I use Gnome Boxes and didn't have any of the issues you ran into, but I wasn't happy with the Budgie experience on SUSE. I'm also just not a fan of zypper or YaST to be honest. I got Budgie working with the documentation, but I can't get the themes I want recognized (that aren't in their repos) and I just can get the feel quite right. I'll still check out LXQt too see what it has to offer, but that's more to do with my own curiosity than making backup plans. I still have Solus Mate, Garuda LXQt, Fedora, KDE Neon, and Debian Testing VMs on my machine because I like to tinker.

I did try Endeavor in Boxes also, and while I can appreciate it, the compile times on my hardware were very long and it would in no way work for my family without me being full time IT, which is the great thing about Solus, it just works and everyone can use it.

The family loves Budgie on Solus and I love either Budgie or Plasma on Solus. Like many have said before in other posts, it's home. No plans to leave Solus until it's long dead and there's a critical CVE that forces my hand.

h3o

WetGeek @Brucehankins I actually installed Tumbleweed a few weeks ago just cuz it's been on my distro bucket list and I've heard so many good things about it. Solus is wayyyy simpler to use, but I've been impressed with Tumbleweed speed and responsiveness, battery life, bootup time, and ease of customizing your system. I'm on hardware, dual-booting w/ Solus.

@Brucehankins I tried gnome (wayland + x), Cinnamon, XFCE, i3, Budgie, Sway, and Plasma.. all worked great, but nothing felt better than Budgie. Just install the Budgie pattern from Yast and should work fine?

@WetGeek to get Vivaldi you just need to add the Vivaldi repository then install it. Not as easy as Solus. And for micro, you just need to 'opi micro' from the command line to install it from their OBS or Packman. Again, not as easy as Solus.

Tumbleweed def feels more 'hacked' together with their various services and repos, but it seems to eventually get out of the way once you set up some initial stuff. I'm gonna continue with it for now as it's no slouch in the performance department, gives me longer batter life (laptop user), and I do enjoy the greater customization (ie. if I want to use Nemo instead of Nautilus, no problem), but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before I nuke it and boot back into Solus again lol