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Disclosure: I am new to Solus. Newer used any version before 4.4. I have installed Solus on new home PC. Used it for about a month and for a basic tasks only (internet browsing, file managing, photo, video and documents viewing).
So:
- + Fully functional live media (working graphics drivers out of the box for AMD APU!)
- + Simple and fast OS installation (I believe that even someone truly new to computers should be able to do it)
- + Extremely fast boot time
- + Clean and intuitive user interface (simple setting up after OS install was also breeze to do)
- + (-) Software center is simple to use for updates and managing applications, clear prompt about dependencies that will be installed together with application (- but software center is lacking some applications or available versions is old, but then again, in most cases other alternatives can be found to replace these applications)
- + (-) Minimum preinstalled applications, but sufficient for most basic tasks (- just not for everything)
- + Firefox
- - (+) LibreOffice's user interface is not displayed properly, menu items is greyed out while being active (other than that seems to operate normally)
- - Celluloid (while it matches Budgie user interface nicely, it is too basic (no aspect ratio or crop adjustments) and prone to video tearing making it unusable (I installed VLC and haven't noticed any tearing with same videos)
- - After screen starts go blank (in System Settings set time) VLC keyboard controls becomes unresponsive and video playback can only be resumed by using mouse (I haven't tested this with other applications but such behavior is annoying and could be a system wide bug)
- - When Power options is activated with button on bottom right corner and Shutdown is pressed sometimes Power options menu disappears and nothing else happens but after repeating these steps PC shutdowns as expected
- - Screen Lock is activated with Suspend and then password is required after waking up despite that Automatic Login is enabled and Automatic Screen Lock is disabled in System Settings
Summary:
Many big pluses for Solus 4.4 Budgie from basic user stand point. And minuses are just small bugs.
Still, bugs is very annoying for basic user and when home I AM basic user...
P.S. I haven't mentioned anything about Nemo because its the reason Solus 4.4 Budgie got my attention. I heard that Nemo has better configurability compared to Nautilus. And as previous Ubuntu user I was really annoyed by Nautilus lack of various settings. Well, Nemo didn't disappoint. But these previously mentioned bugs did. This is kind of when you notice the bug and you just can't unnotice it. Any ideas if any of these bugs can be solved in near future?