If I'd been asked to rate Solus Xfce -- as it is now -- I'd give it a solid B+. I haven't been asked to do that, of course, and your mileage may vary, but curiosity is strong in this one. I can document a lot of functionality that is working quite well. Since I had no other plan in mind, I decided to approach it as I would another interesting distro that I was evaluating. This image represents the current state of Xfce on my laptop, installed over a Solus Budgie VM.
So far, I've been able to:
- Access the TRANSFERS USB drive that's mounted in a port on the VM's host
- Created 8 virtual desktops
- Copy my bashrcAdditions files in my /home directory - macros that make using BASH more enjoyable
- Change the background to a picture of a Pacific NW hike from a few years ago
- Install micro, nfs-utils, aisleriot, kshisen, gnome-mahjongg, and Vivaldi-stable
- Modify /etc/fstab to include my NAS shares
- Modify ./.bashrc and /root/.bashrc to load my macros
- Create symlinks to replace folders in my /home directory with NAS shares mounted in /mnt
- Configured Thunderbird with two email accounts
- Configured Vivaldi and sync'd it, creating 50+ shortcuts on its start page
- Configure settings for Spider software, Shisen-sho, and Gnome-mahjongg solitaire games
I experienced no errors and no unexpected issues throughout. There were purely DE activities that ran slow, as I expected, but no slowness at all when it came to executing applications. I'm very impressed.
Great job, team! I know there's still lots to do, but I could actually use Solus Xfce as a daily driver -- as-is.
