another Thank You post

mspiff

Hi all, I don't normally like posting, but I just wanted to say, after using Solus now for 6 months or so, I was absolutely disgusted when I had to start a new user account on a work PC with Windows 10. So slow, bloated, and intrusive.

Brought my 2010 mbp that has budgie on it, did what I had to do in LibreOffice, hit control-p expecting to have to select or set up a printer but no, it detected the wireless printer and worked like a charm.

What a distro. I hope Josh's departure hasn't made things overly strenuous, but it seems like you are all doing an amazing job with the perfect little distro. Thanks again.

brent

I was actually writing a thank you note to The Team for the recently re-written Help Center sections, which is so much clearer and simplified from the previous versions---I had to use them today. I will park my praise with yours, if I may.

mspiff

brent Would be honored!

I actually haven't been on the forum in a while, just popped on to post a quick Thanks, but then stayed and read through some threads about trying out all these other distros. Why is everyone doing that?? It doesn't get much better than Solus imho

brent

mspiff speaking for myself I'm anchored in Solus, it's the best distro I've had. Still. But nothing is perfect and looking for a fun #2 backup operating system is good sport, as it were. Also: eggs in one basket applies as well I suspect this is a lot of people's reason, but just like my opinion man🙂

WetGeek

mspiff Why is everyone doing that?

Solus runs on all six of the (hardware) computers in this house (3 desktop and 3 laptop), and I suspect that that will never change. I use virtual machines to deal with my curiosity about other distributions and desktop environments.

Currently, I'm curious about how Budgie is being implemented elsewhere. When that curiosity has been satisfied, I can simply delete the VM.

Others might have different reasons for such exploration, but I have no intention of replacing Solus with another distro. At least, none that I've ever tried, and that number is now approaching 40.

Solarmass

mspiff Why is everyone doing that??

It's a spring distrohopping season

Brucehankins

mspiff Why is everyone doing that??

In my case, it's the same as brent and WetGeek, it runs my go to distro. I've got one dedicated gaming machine that is W11, but it is only ever used to game and those games aren't compatible with any Linux distro. The other is a 2009 24" iMac which is a potato, and that runs MX. I could have installed Solus Mate, but I'm not a fan of the Mate DE and MX XFCE offered the best balance of performance and usability on that machine. It's also sitting in a corner and hasn't been turned on or plugged in since I installed MX about a month ago, but I just can't bring myself to recycle it.
Plus, it's always fun to check out the other stuff on a test rig or in a VM. Driving other distros and testing them out helps reinforce why Solus is home for me. Doesn't mean I still don't enjoy seeing what's out there, the Linux world is filled with great creative distros.

mspiff

brent

...the Brent abides!

brent

Solarmass you had a great picture in your reply post when I liked it this morning. now it's gone. and there's no edit tag on your post. I hate not figuring stuff out...

Solarmass

brent in this thread? It's a gif and it's still there 😆 Maybe check your adblocker.

brent

Solarmass maybe check my head! if your awesome spring tiger is still there then thats a first for me. although i do have an extension called 'trace' which is a beast but disabled/loaded page and still no tiger. decentraleyes is my only other extension on FF and I doubt it's that

Solarmass

brent maybe check my head! if your awesome spring tiger is still there then thats a first for me.

It's actually a fox! 🙂

although i do have an extension called 'trace' which is a beast but disabled/loaded page and still no tiger. decentraleyes is my only other extension on FF and I doubt it's that

I am surprised that you don't have uBlock Origin 😮

tomscharbach

mspiff Thanks, but then stayed and read through some threads about trying out all these other distros.
Why is everyone doing that??

During the dead of a Wisconsin winter, I usually check out distros with a specific purpose in mind. During January I checked out a number of distros to see if I could find a distro that might be a better fit for Windows 10 migration newbies than Zorin. During February I checked out a number of Budgie distros (Endeavor, Ubuntu Budgie, openSUSE S/T, Gecko S/T and a few others) to see if I could find one that I would even consider as a Solus-replacement candidate should the need arise. Sometimes somebody will mention a distro (Garuda, for example) that I want to look at just for the hell of it. Right now, I don't have anything running in a VM, and probably won't until next winter.

For production and serious evaluation, though, I use bare metal installations rather than VM's. Currently:

DESKTOP #1
DISK 0 - WINDOWS 11 (PRODUCTION)
DISK 1 - ONBOARD BACKUP/ARCHIVE

DESKTOP #2
DISK 0 - SOLUS BUDGIE (PRODUCTION)
DISK 1 - UBUNTU BUDGIE 22.04 BETA (EVALUATION)

DESKTOP #3 (updated but rarely used)
DISK 0 - WINDOWS 10 (GEEZER SUPPORT)
DISK 1 - ZORIN OS 16 (GEEZER SUPPORT)

LAPTOP #1
DISK 0 - WINDOWS 11 (PRODUCTION/TRAVEL)

LAPTOP #2
DISK 0 - WINDOWS 11 BETA (EVALUATION/RAILROAD)

Solarmass

tomscharbach Not enough Solus! 😠

brent

Solarmass It was 4:30am...of course it was a tiger🙂.
Ublock Origin is meh to me compared to Ublock Matrix. The now-unmaintained Ublock Matrix I mean🙁.
Lastly, Im confident in my about:config moves and settings moves that I'm down to 4 extensions in FF, down from about double that.

tomscharbach

Solarmass Not enough Solus! 😠

I knew somebody would say that ... I've found that Linux runs hotter and has significantly reduced battery life on Dell laptops, so I prefer Windows on the laptops. On the desktops, I use Solus about 80% of the time most days, I'd guess. The desktops are my drivers. I use the laptops a bit here and there, and usually go a week or more before recharging.

Solarmass

tomscharbach okay, you are partly forgiven only because it's Solus Budgie 😛