Solus mate

murbert

I put Solus Mate on an old potato laptop. It makes the laptop usable in a way that none of the others do and theming has remained stable recently too.

brent

Axios right behind you. the lazy part of me intended to install it side by side with budgie but maybe I'll go for it.

DASK

Try a distro with cinnamon desktop. With all the recent issues with Solus and Gnome decisions I have just installed Manjaro on a older laptop with the cinnamon desktop that uses nemo file manager. It is a very nice compromise between mate and budgie and looks good. I still have Solus on 2 other machines atm.

murbert

DASK I've been playing around with Fedora Cinnamon lately. It is pretty & has a fully functioning Plata theme.
It's resource hungry though.

Brucehankins

DASK Give Endeavour with LXQt a look. PCManFM-QT isn't as full featured, but it works. With some themes and style changes, it's not too bad on the eyes. I'm averaging 645mib at idle.

tflovik

There is no problem so far on Ubuntu Budgie.

tomscharbach

tflovik There is no problem so far on Ubuntu Budgie.

Are you using Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 LTS or 22.10 SR? I've had no issues with UB 22.04 LTS but that is not surprising given that 22.04 LTS predates the current commotion.

tflovik

tomscharbach I have UB 22.04 installed on a laptop at work.

tomscharbach

tomscharbach There is no problem so far on Ubuntu Budgie.

Reading the UB forum this morning, I noticed that theme issues are starting to pop up with UB 22.10 SR. UB 22.10 SR deployed the Gnome 43 stack and attendant changes. I have not seen any posts about Nautilus issues on either the UB forum or the Ubuntu forum. I wonder if the Nautilus implementation in Ubuntu (and hence UB) is different from the Solus implementation of Nautilus.

tomscharbach

tflovik I have UB 22.04 installed on a laptop at work.

UB 22.04 LTS has no issues. I know from the UB forum that there has been a lot of discussion of the GTK/Libadwaita issues with respect to UB 22.10 SR and future releases, but I don't use UB 22.10 SR so I don't have any first-hand knowledge. I avoid SR's.

tflovik

tomscharbach I updated the work machine to 22.10 today, so far i see nothing unusual.

tomscharbach

tomscharbach Reading the UB forum this morning, I noticed that theme issues are starting to pop up with UB 22.10 SR. UB 22.10 SR deployed the Gnome 43 stack and attendant changes. I have not seen any posts about Nautilus issues on either the UB forum or the Ubuntu forum. I wonder if the Nautilus implementation in Ubuntu (and hence UB) is different from the Solus implementation of Nautilus.

Just to update a small point: I was reading a post in the UB forum this morning. Nautilus issues are apparently not showing up in UB because Nemo is the default file manager. Duh. The post I read involved a user who had installed Nautilus manually, with the attendant problems.

Axios

Did the fri update all is well with mate

brent

Axios you sound like you are digging it

Axios

brent Ya if it keeps updateing without major issues arising...

tomscharbach

tflovik I updated the work machine to 22.10 today, so far i see nothing unusual.

That's good. I know that the David and the rest of the UB team put a lot of work into solving issues along the path to UB 22.10 SR.

Axios

tomscharbach Ummm missed the fine print ..huh...lol

Axios

Another Uneventful update to solus mate.