I used Ubuntu between 2006-2017, but switched to Solus Budgie in 2017. In 2018, I did a hardware refresh and did a fresh install of Solus 3.9999 on an i7/630 Dell Optiplex Micro. I ran Solus on that computer 3+ years, until last week, without a hitch. Not a single problem in all that time.
I did a fresh Solus install on a new SSD last week because my existing SSD was showing signs of age and I decided to replace it before it bonked. The fresh install, too, went without a hitch. I had Solus set up and running within 30 minutes, set up the way I use it. In another 30 or so minutes I had my Steam games and Gnome Boxes set up and running. Everything worked as advertised.
In the last few months, I've looked several distros (MX, Mint, Pop!, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Ubuntu Budgie, Deepin, Lubuntu, KDE, Debian, Gecko, Zorin and a few others) in Gnome Boxes, in part because I was curious to see whether the distros I last looked at in 2017 had gotten appreciably better since then, in part because comments about this or that disto on this forum tweaked my interest, in part because I became curious about how Budgie was implemented in other distros, and in part because between the weather and the Omicron surge, I had time on my hands.
Like others who have commented, I came away with a new appreciation for Solus, and in particular Solus Budgie. Solus Budgie just works -- clean, quick, efficient and intuitive -- and Solus keeps on working, month after month, year after year. I hope that the split between Solus and Budgie will, as things settle down, work for the benefit of both projects.
