Solus is good

Need proofs? Try it with your uncle's laptop from 2008 before he started doing meth, it'll work like it's new and chances are you'll enjoy it.

Want to know why?

It's simple, it boots in a few seconds, it's eye-pleasing, it never stands in your way, nor gets in your face. It
is fly on the wall, while you do what you do.

It has gems

These are the gems that give me superpowers

  • flightgear, imagine you're unlicensed plane pilot, yeah it is so good
  • gpxsee, to never get lost on unknown terrain, again.
  • sdcv, use if you're intellectual with shoulders too weak to carry half dozen of dictionaries. Beware, dictionaries may be addictive, they'll turn you into kind of a lawyer that defines any term used upfront
  • language-tool lets beginner writer beat his "editor" level to make his boring prose available to readers next level
  • ledger, will inform you about your negative net worth without breaking sweat
  • password-store, lets your forget your passwords and still have easy night sleep
  • emacs is a lisp interpreter with built-in text editor. Most of the gems work together under command of brave emacs.
  • there's also mu - email client that runs within emacs. It'll IMAP all your inboxes faster than Busta Rhymes

Share Solus little gems you cannot live without below

pwgen
pdfunite
youtube-dl
gnome-terminal
inxi
eopkg
systemctl
Celtic Magic Button
Raven
quadrapassel

tools used regularly. and that's just the CLI gems....
take care of your uncle.

Flatpak apps: Tauon Music Box (best music player), Warpinator (awesome file sharing tool)...
Kodi
mpv (best video player)
Vivaldi (best chromium-based browser)
vifm (cool cli file manager)
micro (like nano cli text editor but more modern)
zathura (pdf viewer)
eopkg check (nice diagnostic tool)
FSearch (fast search app)
Budgie
Budgie screenshot applet

    Solarmass zathura (pdf viewer)

    never saw this in repo before...better than document viewer but same as Okular? nevermind I'm finding out in 20 seconds🙂

        brent it's much more minimal app, the cool thing about it is that you can change background color and text color in the config file.

          13 days later

          For file content search there's ripgrep, ack, silver-searcher but I'll tell you about grep. Loong time ago I used to use ubuntu budgie and it had a file with a word mimic in it. The promiscuous distro-hopper I was I removed drive partition and was about to put some Real Desktop Linux onto it when realized I need my file back. So I fired up grep with /dev/hda parameter and there it was... grep needs no any file system. That's how grep is a gem

            9 months later

            This one certainly isn't a gem, but if anybody with new hardware has to install solus asap, here's what worked for me with the latest iso circa 2021. I didn't have spare hardware to swap drives between setups, but fbdev driver allowed me to get through solus installer and boot into budgie, then update it all. So here's how it works if solis iso won't boot your hardware into graphical interface

            • Boot iso then switch to tty2 (Ctrl+Alt+2) and login with root/root
            • Run lspci to get Bus Id of gpu e.g 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller AMD Renoir
            • Use nano text editor to create file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/fbdev.conf with content below¹ using Bus Id where appropriate
            • Then again use nano to replace last 5 lines of /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc with text below²
            • Run startx to boot into budgie then install as usual
            • Boot new system, switch to tty2 again and update to latest available kernel with hw support you were missing

            Footnote 1
            Section "Device"
            Identifier "card"
            Driver "fbdev"
            BusID "PCI:4:0:0"
            EndSection
            Footnote 2
            budgie-desktop

            It's certainly a gem. Thank you my friend. I have Solus installed now!