Not Dead Yet

George

George [T]his is great, but donates are a great way to support the developer and motivate him to do more. It is also a source of development.

That's true. At this point, however, contributions are barely keeping up with expenses, and meet those expenses we must.

I think that we would both like to see the day when contributions will be sufficient to compensate team members. Right now, though, it seems to me that we need to make sure we keep the lights on. That was the reason for my focus.

I am grateful to the hundreds of community members who are helping keep Solus alive by making financial contributions, particularly those community members (Backers, Release Testers, Beta Testers, Crew) who make recurring monthly contributions. I'm hoping that your posts and mine might motivate others to join the effort.

Joining the team of financial contributors would be a good way to help the Solus Project at this transition point and demonstrate how important this project is to all of us.

OrbitalWLF New to Solus here, I'm in love with this distro and I feel I have reached my last stop on this hopping journey.

Thanks for posting. I think that many of us feel the same way about Solus. I used for Ubuntu between 2006-2017, became increasingly unhappy with the direction Canonical was taking, switched to Solus Budgie in 2017 and haven't looked back.

I had the opportunity to look at about a half dozen distros (Ubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, openSUSE, Gecko, Debian, Mint, MXLinux) using Gnome Boxes over the last few weeks and what I found reinforced my feeling that Solus is head and shoulders above the others for home computer users who want a stable, rolling release distribution without cruft, bloat or complication. I've been running Solus OS on this computer for about 4 years now, stable as a rock.

OrbitalWLF I initially had some anxiety about the departure of major team members but all the information given to the community has been so clear and concise that I feel confident in your abilities to make this distro better!

I did, too, because I've seen Solus OS and the Budgie DE as a perfect combination and worried about what might happen if the two weren't developed in tandem. But after a few days' reflection, and reading Beatrice's post, I'm confident that it will work out. As Beatrice pointed out in her initial post in this thread, it might be a bumpy ride for a few weeks until the reorganized Solus team settles in and the Budgie handoff is completed. But once that happens, separating out Solus OS and the Budgie DE into two projects will work.

Staudey

Thanks for the heads-up. I checked once, then checked again about 10 minutes later, and the list of packages looked the same. But I didn't do an actual comparison. I have BeyondCompare installed, so I should have.

I keep saying this, but nobody ever seems to notice. It would be a real help to all of us if the person who releases the update would say so in the forum.

Again, thanks for the warning. I'll start doing another update now.

EDIT: Hmmm ... Did you mean there are still upgrades to come later? I seem to have gotten them all, so far. And I updated this laptop before I updated any of the others, so I must be okay.

WetGeek I keep saying this, but nobody ever seems to notice. It would be a real help to all of us if the person who releases the update would say so in the forum.

So a short message like "Stable repository completely synced now!" or "Friday Sync complete!"?

Edit: Yeah, seems like you've already got all of them (I think there was just a small rest that hadn't been synced when you wrote your earlier message, so the rest probably didn't apply to you)