Best Distro for Developers

WetGeek

That's what Tech Radar calls Solus. Although they seem to get their information strictly from the Solus web site, so not really anything new here. At least, they make it clear that Solus is "One of the best Linux distros."

tomscharbach

TechRadar self-describes as "the source for tech-buying advice" and loves its "Best of the Best" lists, churning out lists by the dozen every month. How much thought goes into the lists is uncertain, to say the least.

Solus is billed, as you note, as the "Best distro for developers" on the "Best Linux distros of 2022" list, but is down-listed on the "Best Linux distro for developers in 2022" list.

Solus is also touted on TechRadar's "Best Linux distros for Windows users in 2022" list (citing the Budgie DE), ranked, however, below Deepin and Elementary, which don't use a Windows-like metaphor at all, and above Zorin OS, which goes to great pains to replicate the Windows metaphor. Go figure.

TechRadar's lists, like the many other superficial lists floated by similar sites, are something to toss in the decision-hopper, I guess, but that's about all that can be said for them, in my opinion.

LarryNG

Not sure that I'd call myself a developer, but I do do a lot of html and css, and having a comfortable editor is hugely important to me. For close to ten years my favorite editors have been NotePad++ and Expression Web 4 (using EW4 to proof the html while offline). NP++ is great in XP because XP can be themed how the user wants, but in Windows 8.1 I have to switch to a customized dark classic theme to eliminate the white scrollbars and stuff. The customized dark theme is good for several different programs (i.e. Corel and Paint Shop Pro), but it makes a mess of other programs like Word, and so I'm never satisfied. 😉

But in Solus, I can use Geany, BlueFish, Gedit, and NotePadqq comfortably, which I was never able to achieve in any other distro (Budgie is the key for me).

If circumstances permit, I have been seriously considering coding a 'Find Column' addon for Libre Writer that would enable a list of searched words (similar to what is in Gnumeric and Calc, and is a key feature of Word 2010 (and is a necessity for my work)). I haven't made an addon for a program in a lot of years, so progress will be slow if I ever do begin the project.

And, so, yeah, for me anyway, Solus is my own personal top choice for developing website code, addons, and anything else that might resemble code.