My luck at this software turmoil FF now mate will have to ponder this for awhile.
Prob wont go back to budgie just bad first experience (Yes I know its changed alot)
my first gnome experience was not much better.
Dont know anything about xfce and Have limited use with plasma so it would prob be plasma
I guess.
Just Ramblin
But congradulations on the hardwork everybody did in short time to get this far.

    Axios I had (nautilus meltdowns) budgie trust issues for 6 months, I understand you. I used XFCE in a few live iso distros and installed it to hard drive once (MX Linux a couple months): xfce is a nifty DE. you might like it. modest and not flashy like Mate. But modern, unlike Mate.

    It was solid but my problem was always the OS's XFCE was on top of like deb flavors with 4 package managers, 3 settings managers, multiple everythings (it seemed like) and overkill like that so it was hard to know how to use it. It's strange it's at Solus. I always thought 'this would be an ok DE if all the crap it was on top of was ripped out of it.' I really cannot think of a better place for xfce to be at right now when I think about. 2 cents

        brent I really dont need plasma to much stuff and gnome to simplistic
        really budgie and mate fit in the middle for my use (Prob check budgie out again)
        Whatever they do with mates replacement I would suggest something thats going to be around and active
        if any concerns in that department I would not use it. (slow developement to)
        Not going worry about this lenovo another 12months battery will need replaced and its not worth replacing
        was handy having it.

            Axios ok gotcha. migrating DE always pita. like goldielocks has to be just right. I am this way too. left W7 for budgie. then had to leave budgie. found cinnamon fedora amazing. then back to solus budgie. my computer life is like a soap opera when I re-read this....
            edit all this is negligible since I'm not on W anymore. that is beyond soap and into dystopia

              Worth noting that Solus Plasma is the only plasma I like, it's greatly simplified, but you can extend functionality. Most other Plasma implementations come off clunky and unrefined out of the box imo. I say this as a windows "admin". I have no doubt the teams' implementation of xfce will also be great.

              Gnome version won't install on my 2 YO HP Laptop yet the Plasma version will..

                Cloak If you'd like to figure out the issue, I'd ask that you create a new discussion with details such as at what step the installation failed, any error message, and any other information that might help. That makes it easier for everyone to keep track of the issue. Thanks! 🙂

                    One step beyond!..
                    But stilll the infarious annoyance in the installer which still decides by itself where it will install the EFI/loader directories.
                    Just a 'mv' + efibootmgr, but still..

                    Anyway, long live Solus and a big THANK YOU to the staff who made the world's air more breathable!

                      EbonJaeger Correction - none of the ISO's will install in this particular Laptop. In fact neither will Fedora or Ubuntu... However I can get an Arch based system on it no problems. Leave it with me till I can document just what HP model it is and see if I can identify the H/W...

                        TraceyC
                        Thank you so much !!!
                        Finally dream comes true

                        Next step : Making people using & loving again Solus !
                        DistroWatch is a good way to promote Solus...
                        Somebody should contact them now to pass Solus from Dormant to Active Mode status for having Solus ranking again...
                        I remind myself when Solus was simply ramked Nunber 1 which is a good and a logical place fior Solus 🙂

                            SOLUS_INVICTUS Somebody should contact them now to pass Solus in Active Mode status for having Solus ranking again

                            Not according to them you're not.

                            We often receive e-mails from projects which have been Dormant and plan future releases (or from fans of dormant projects) asking us to update the distro's status to Active. This will be done automatically when a new stable release is published.

                            Source: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=faq#distrostatus

                                Harvey

                                Hum
                                Releases announcements should be sent first to them ? I don't think that they ping all distros' web site.

                                  We have never sent them anything. They are an aggregator, they can aggregate just fine on their own, our RSS feeds are working there is nothing we can do it is on them.

                                  EDIT:

                                  A new version of a distribution was released, but it wasn't announced on DistroWatch. Why?

                                  • We didn't know about the release. Although we try our best to traverse the Internet continuously in search for new distribution releases, we do miss some on occasion. In this case, please let us know about it - the preferred way is to simply e-mail us.

                                  Source: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=faq#noannounce

                                  We will give them time to figure it out and email them if we are certain they have missed it.

                                    Hi guys, first of all congratulations on the new release. I saw this on the changelog "Dual-GPU support in Budgie Menu when launching applications" , does solus support hybrid mode on a amd integrated gpu / nvidia gpu ?

                                    Thanks!

                                    Harvey

                                    A new version of a distribution was released, but it wasn't announced on DistroWatch. Why?

                                    We didn't know about the release. Although we try our best to traverse the Internet continuously in search for new distribution releases, we do miss some on occasion. In this case, please let us know about it - the preferred way is to simply e-mail us.

                                    Source: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=faq#noannounce

                                    Thanks for providing that quote. I've shot off a polite e-mail to distrowatch from my @getsol.us address to ask how we might go about having Solus listed as Active again, along with links to the release blog post, the download page and the Release RSS feed.

                                    Here's hoping it gets updated soon-ish.

                                      brent yeah, I've never cared for it outside of MXLinux. I hope the Solus implementation of XFCE is as polished and nice as that.