Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-20
Votes: 0
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10 or 9, my rating is 9.5 (Budgie).
Fixed some minor bugs with 4, everything is fast and stable, beautiful and elegant. The new Plata style, noir especially, is great (I would like a wider selection of icons, but it's a detail).
Really nice to use, if they keep this way and improve the software center (increasing the number of programs available for example), translating everything for the selected language (some small part is missing, however minor stuff, especially if you understand english) , their destiny is to become one of the best distro out there.
My daily distro certainly..
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-15
Votes: 1
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Very stable, every update ok. I like very much, that I can tweak the budgie desktop in my way.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-11
Votes: 2
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Tried quite a few linux variants over the years, prefer a clean simple contemporary desktop that does what is required and stays out of the way. Absolutely love Solus and Budgie. Have been using it daily for nearly 2 years no reason to change!
Clean, simple, stable - love it!
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-04-10
Votes: 0
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Selected not to install grub, installation went fine then immediately I found it corrupted windows boot loader. I went mad.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-10
Votes: 0
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Budgi environment.
Solid, configurable and functional distribution. very useful for the average and advanced user.
Distribucion sólida, configurable y funcional, muy util para el usuario promedio y avanzado.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-08
Votes: 0
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Friendly community, willing to help contributing and similar things, a working distro, simple enough to use daily, what's else ?
Simply good. Stable too.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-08
Votes: 6
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*** Budgie Edition ***
Started using it since 3.9999 and now 4.0, couldn't be happier.
Love that it is independent and rolling!
I'm a home user so between the repository and FlatHub, I have everything I need.
I’ve tried many, many Ubuntu/Debian/Arch based distros as well as a few other odd balls. They’ve all left me feeling like they weren’t quick complete.
Solus is fast, fresh, stable and very well polished. It found all my hardware on every machine I installed it on. Solus is also beginner and kid friendly.
Wish there was a 32bit to put on my older hardware.
The install was a breeze. Nice clean step by step interface.
My #1 recommendation to friends, family.
Though it may not be for everyone, it completes me… =)
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-04-06
Votes: 1
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Very good except for update problem accepting password to update. gets there after a a bit of coaxing. Old HP laptop . Excellent a better mark, works great and pleasing to the eye. Its definitely up there with the best. Definitely a match for old people messing about with computers with little knowledge.
Foggy77
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 4
Date: 2019-04-06
Votes: 0
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As a somewhat newer Linux User I was impressed with how easy this was to install and set up. This was an excellent juxtaposition to Windows 10, which I have grown to loathe. Solus by comparison is easy to understand and use, easy to update, attractive and very fast. Bottom line this is what most Windows users need to see and experience to make the switch. I did, and I am not looking back. Windows and all of the crazy updates that break your machine get very tiresome. This by comparison is as solid as a rock, fast, attractive and easy to use. It is now my daily driver of choice. If you know someone thinking about making the switch to Linux, encourage them to try Solus, I am very sure they will like as much as I do. Great Distro, please keep up the good work Solus Team!
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-05
Votes: 0
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The best distro! It's a pleasure to use, stable and polished. My favorite distro and now running my lenovo laptop.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-04-03
Votes: 0
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Their main focus is the desktop. With that said don't expect to install your favorite programs or any for that matter. You only get a web browser and simple file manager.
The Software center is buggy. When updating, there is no way to view detailed logs of the updates being carried out, and if you close the application the update carries on and there is no reliable way to view its progress. Furthermore the application is a bit simplistic, you want to install a few packages but it calls 'eopkg' every time you install for each package instead of sensibly grouping installs.
Aside from the packages/programs deal that isn't the real issue. The real gripe is its limited desktop environments and the main one Budgie is full of bugs and seems more "experimental" as well as unpractical.The settings are all over the place. Budgie settings are in one place, system settings in another and there is little logic to their location really. Backgrounds are in system settings, themes are in Budgie settings.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 2
Date: 2019-04-02
Votes: 3
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Solus 4 has a lot of hype about the recent kernel version and AMD support it has that got my hopes up, but as far as I could see, the installation did not have that activated for my new Dell Inspiron 7000 series with Ryzen 5 2500U with Vega 8 GPU, and I did not find how to set necessary boot options (iommu=soft noapic) to let it start up, so I bailed out, and went with the more familiar Mint 19 Mate, which runs it well (aside from a few niggles like a MS mouse locking up the PC after using a while, and incomplete power management sleep support). After reading Jesse's review, I am glad I stayed with Mint/Mate for a reliable and familiar (to me) distro.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-04-01
Votes: 0
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It's a pleasure to use, stable and polished. My favorite distro and now running my main work machine.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-01
Votes: 0
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I am running Solus Budgie. For me, it blows away all other distro's. I tried most other distro's, but now Solus is what I'm running on my laptop and I'm very happy with it. Very responsive and stable.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-01
Votes: 0
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Best stable rolling release Linux distribution so far I have used. Updates did not crashed like Manjaro. Low packages in the repo but every packages are Carefully tested by Solus team.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-31
Votes: 3
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Solus Budgie is the cleanest linux desktop implementation I've run across. No bloat, no legacy components, beautiful minimalist design, solid software library of modern, well-implemented useful packages.
The low CPU/RAM demands reaped an unexpected benefit for laptop use -- my laptop doesn't heat up like it used to with Debian/Ubuntu derivatives, and battery life is significantly longer, compared to Ubuntu Budgie, for example.
Although the Solus software library is more limited than that of older distributions, that's a plus for most users, I suspect. The software libraries of older distributions tens to have a high percentage of packages that are outdated and unsupported. It is all too easy to install dogs on other distributions.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-28
Votes: 4
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Solus is what we should be showing to new to linux people.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-28
Votes: 0
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Very stable and easy to install. Keep on the good work !
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-28
Votes: 2
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With latest Budgie version, I see no point in using GNOME for myself. Although, Solus still has a lot of work to do before it comes pair-to-pair with other well known operating systems, but It's on right track. You can use it for whatever you want, huge available libraries for every kind of developer, gaming on Linux has never been easier and default software choice does not feel bloated at all which makes you productive from start.
I dislike sometimes behavior of software center, still need some brushing to do. All in all, very solid improvement. Good job!
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-28
Votes: 0
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Best experience from a intermediate linux user's experience. Brought life to an old gaming pc of mine that is now an htpc/gaming center with Solus installed. Super smooth.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-27
Votes: 0
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There is a small team behind Solus but it's very reactive and close to the community which is important. Of course the drawback is that they can't deliver new stuffs as much as they would like.
The unexpected leave of the project founder (which was the only full time developer) slowed down the ambition of the team but it didn't prevent them to insure the continuity of the deliveries without impacting the users. Hopefully when they will reopen the donnation in a few months they will be able to hire a dev to help them... We could also hope some more volunteers will join the team.
The repository isn't as big as the long timer distributions, but to be honnest it is VERY RARELY a problem. The team challenges new inclusions (for example for applications that haven't seen a commit in years or for which responsibles haven't answered to open issues for years, when there is a request for a new python 2 package, etc.). This is common sense and it keeps the repository healthy. Even big distributions like Fedora is now planning actions to withdraw such packages from their repository. And the team/community alway propose equivalent applications when something isn't accepted which allows discovery new applications !
The team also cares about the licenses. WPS office was removed from the 3rd party repository recently because of this and CUDA can't be added in the repository also because of license issues.
The only real problem is with applications that only ship .deb or .rpm packages. In some rare case they are accepted but again as for the licenses the problem is upstream, not Solus.
At least it's nice to have a dynamic independant distribution (rather that yet another debian/ubuntu based one), that bring or try to popularize new idea/concepts.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-27
Votes: 0
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3.999999999999999999 was already awesome. But 4.0 is just great. My #1 distritbuton currently, expecially for gaming on linux.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-24
Votes: 0
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This distro is now my main driver.
I'm an Android Developer and very surprised about how I set quickly the system ready for Android development. I installed Android Studio, Nvidia drivers, that's all. You won't even be bothered with kvm things...
I always suffered heavy RAM usage of GNOME on Ubuntu.
In Solus, things are unbelievable... Everything works so fast & out of the box, not to mention very low usage of RAM!... I use Android Studio, Google Chrome with multiple tabs, Postman and Emulator, it's still under the 7GB! Can you believe it?
Also, I tested some gaming, still amazing... I hope it won't crash anymore during updates.
I've faced two minor problems:
1 - When installing a third party application, installing indicator animating much longer than real. So I close the store.
2 - Login password input delay. Password page appears but I won't able enter any input for a couple of seconds...
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-24
Votes: 0
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Solus is now my main OS.
I installed in a gamer Laptop with Nvidia GTX 960M, Intel Core i7 6700HQ, that has a lot of multimedia keys. With Solus everything in my laptop is working very well, i tried to install Slackware (My main OS in my secondary laptop), Fedora Linux, Ubuntu, Deepin, Manjaro (I used for years as my main OS) and FreeBSD (that working very well on this gamer laptop, but with a lot of resources missing), but had problems with them all, except Solus.
Solus is fast (has a very fast boot too), stable, auto-configurable, easy to use, practical (its only install and be happy), now i can focus on my work instead of take time to configure something to keep working.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 4
Date: 2019-03-22
Votes: 0
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A lot of people like Solus but it does nothing for me. We had to wait a VERY LONG time for this version to be released. I guess that's because the development team is so small. The rolling release is nice but that only counterbalances a lousy package manager. Every time I look at Solus it gives me the impression it's still a work in progress. It doesn't help that the distribution uses the Budgie, Mate, and Gnome desktops either. I prefer KDE and XFCE.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-22
Votes: 0
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Very beautiful operating system - Modern, clean and beautiful design. Fast and stable - that's Solus. Very high quality. Thank you developers.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-22
Votes: 0
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Pros:
Very smooth and polished OS and the devs are hard working - very nice community and rolling the right way with a vast amount of packages
Cons:
Just small hiccups with package manager - nothing a little terminal usage can't solve
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-03-21
Votes: 2
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Awful package manager; a limited number of packages and forked from a crappy pkm.
Slow development.
Not very customizable.
Not very well documented, i.e not for new users as most claim.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-21
Votes: 0
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Somwhat newbie here. Out of the box, the OS felt smooth and cohesive (I used the GNOME edition). I would give it a 10 but Steam feels slightly wonky despite the awesome Linux Steam Integration capability.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-20
Votes: 0
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Hopped to Solus Budgie from Pop!_OS, zero regrets
Budgie is a superb DE which is minimal and polished like GNOME but also much faster. Default theme looks ok, but there're better IMO, for example, elementary
Solus has a decent amount of software available, though Ubuntu has more. So far I could install everything I needed, and Flatpak support is a big plus too
Rolling release model for me is a good thing too, although there're people who need stable release
This distro is perfect for me and I'd recommend it for everyone, except maybe for science or server guys
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-20
Votes: 0
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Beautiful interface and everything running effortlessly. It needs a Linux friendly, as well, that installed all the drivers without complication and finally I found!
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-19
Votes: 0
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This is my first Budgie experience, so I am not sure how much of my review is specific to Solus and not just Budgie itself.
Very impressed. The eopkg manager was a very easy shift from apt. just put the eopkg --help output up on one screen and was able to do everything. Actually I would probably be faster with eopkg than apt if I had as much experience with it.
It is actually a pretty configurable UI. I am used to XFCE, and when I right-clicked on the panel I was worried there was no configurability. Once I figured it out though, I think it is actually a cleaner way of handling things.
Overall it is a very smooth experience. Light enough for speed, yet looks nice. The most impressive part for me is the lack of miniscule glitches. This just hasn't happened to me in any other DE. Slight changes in XFCE or KDE constantly break things or make them act weird. This just feels so much more solid. Although it is at the cost of some configurability, I think I would rather adjust to a stable DE than tweak the hell out of a glitchy interface so it fits my current way of thinking.
Very big fan, going to keep running in a VM for a while looking for issues before wiping out my base MX OS.
May the force be with you
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-18
Votes: 31
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First of all, I am just a common PC user, personal computers were discovered by me quite late in my life, so I don't know how relevant my review will be for this place. (I am also not a native English speaker).
I've decided to switch to Linux in 2016, primarily because of constant file fragmentation and updates clogging my slow internet connection.
I've tried Mint, Manjaro, elementary and different flavors of Ubuntu. My experience with all these distros was very similar. At first everything works great. Then there is an update and something breaks. Something that I can't find how to fix or it ts too difficult for me to fix. Then I switch to another distro.
I've installed Solus (with Budgie) in September 2017. At first everything worked great, but then... It continued to do that. Now it's March 2019 and nothing broke since the install. At some point I even got curious - "Maybe it's just the combination of software that I use does not brake?". So I installed almost everything software center has to offer, tried it. Tried different desktop environments on the same install. Tried using flatpak and snap. And everything was working. Updating and working.
The only thing I can say after that is if even such unexperienced person like me can't break this in more than a year, then the developers definitely know what they are doing.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-18
Votes: 4
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Amazing. Solus is simply amazing.
My main laptop runs Fedora Workstation (Vanilla Gnome). In my opinion, Fedora is the most stable and secure version operating system available but it isn't the most intuitive or easy for people new to Linux. I've always seen potential in the Solus Project but until today I could never make it my daily driver or evangelize this distro to others the way I wanted.
Solus 3 and Solus 3.9999 were both really good but for the last several months I have been struggling, seriously, struggling, to find ways to install it on a Desktop Computer that has weird Secure Boot Bios settings (despite having having installed it on two other platforms) and I absolutely could NEVER get Solus to run in a virtual machine without tons of tweaking. In some cases, no amount of tweaking worked.
Solus 4 changes all of that. Solus 4 doesn't have potential. It has reached it's potential. Solus 4 is amazing. Solus 4 is the operating system I have been waiting for all of my life. It is easy, it is beautiful, it is fast, it is simple, it is user friendly, it is AMAZING.
With this current release, suddenly there isn't a single issue to be found trying to run Solus in Gnome Boxes. It starts up faster and easier than most ISOs I have installed in VMs. I don't have any of the problems installing it on a PC.
Seriously, the day has come when it makes far more sense to install Linux on grandma's PC or Mom's laptop than Windows. Linux, for casual users, is far more secure and easy to use in almost all cases.. when the distro can be installed.
I truly hope that Solus 4 is able to be the OS that brings open source to the masses with the Windows 7 end of life so close.
For me, I couldn't be more pleased with everything I've seen so far. GREAT JOB DEVS!!
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-10
Votes: 3
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The repo is clean. This distro has everything you need and just works out of the box.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-10
Votes: 3
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I installed Solus for the first time a couple of months ago, and was extremely pleased with it. Then I had to upgrade the Hard Drive, and decided to install Linux Mint, just to see how pleased I will be with it. I tried for hours and hours to get Brasero and other burning software to work on Linux Mint, finally waved the white flag of surrender, and decided to reinstall Solus again. Everything is on Solus working as it should again, and I'm back to being extremely pleased. It's a lesson learned, and I'm not going to switch or hop to another distro anytime soon. It's too much headache and stress. As the good old saying goes, "never change a running system", and Solus is a very well running system. :-D
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-05
Votes: 1
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Very fast and stable, but with small things to improve. It is not possible to add shortcuts in the side panel and incredible since it does not have Chromium in the repository.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-05
Votes: 4
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Using it with Budgie on a Dell XPS 13.
Stability:
Works great and is stable. Had no issues.
Speed:
- Can only agree with other reviewers. The system works very fast, fans start turning a bit when watching 1080 videos on YouTube, but way less than with Elementary or Ubuntu.
- LibreOffice opens up a bit slower in comparison to Xubuntu, but the interface design and usability make up for the small difference in speed.
Usability
- All hardware keys work as they should in all situations, which was not the case in other distros (e.g. display brightness or volume).
- Super key isn’t always recognized when customizing keyboard shortcuts, but that might be due to a false mapping on my side.
- Excellent rendering of fonts and menus, much better than in other distros. I had issues using a highdef screen and Budgie handles it smoothly.
Cons:
- Documentation online is not the greates for newbs, e.g. I could install wine, but am not able to run an exe with it, for reasons I can’t just look up, I’d have to ask.
- Not really sure about the future of the project given the latest changes, but overall I’d love to support the project on Pateron and give the guys some backup.
- Only small issues with curated software (e.g. Albert interface is not adjusted to the proper font sizes)
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-02-28
Votes: 1
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All hardware recognized instantly during install on Dell 3000.
Fast, responsive, great software center, great forum, Budgie is fantastic and a Rolling Release!
This os is a joy.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-02-24
Votes: 0
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Im using the Budgie Variant and im very pleased with the os. i never had crashes, though im having some bugs from time to time, wich is why its not getting a 10. for example im not getting a boot logo (wich didnt happen on my previous solus systems so others probably wont have that problem) and even though there snap-package support, programms installed through snap rarely work. thats not that big of a deal though because 1. who would wanna use snap anyways and 2. solus' repository is filled with pretty much any piece of software you could ever want, including an official google chrome build. another weird thing is that in firefox the default firefox homepage isnt the actual firefox homepage but rather a solus website and there seems to be no obvious way to change that. other than that, the distro i lovely and i can defenetly recommend it even to people that dont know how to work the terminal. i only had to use it a few times and that was because i was doing very specific tasks the avarage user wont ever bother to do.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-02-22
Votes: 0
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After having issues with Opensuse and debian this distro is excellent.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-02-17
Votes: 0
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The best distribution I've ever tried.
It's stable, the packages are up to date and it's safe.
Pro: instantly recognized hardware, attractive graphics, can be installed on any PC even with only 2 GB of RAM,
Cons: nothing.
Thanks to the Solus team of existing.
could compete with windows and mac with eyes closed.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-02-14
Votes: 3
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Not a single breakage since first installation (2017.01.01.0).
As comparison Manjaro - which is also a curated rolling release broke twice on the same machine (First install was 16.10. There was a breakage in April 2017, so I installed version 17.0 then another breakage last month and I installed 18.0.2).
So among both, Solus is clearly the winner although it has a much smaller repository (but tbqf, all I need is available).
I really recommend this distribution !
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-02-12
Votes: 1
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This works with my computer even if it's a little old. My only criticism of this is the batch boot sequence, there should be a splash screen to hide that because many non tech savvy people are a little bit paranoid with batch file boot sequence.
Plus there are still redundant apps in the software center hope they'll be able to clean that up and just leave the latest and greatest apps. Because some apps are already abandonedware the developer don't really update it anymore.
Other than that every thing is smooth and slick hope it will be the new top 1 Linux distro!
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-02-11
Votes: 0
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Solus is a great distro, but what concerns me the package manager. eopkg is simple for the beginner, but for us who want a lot from it, like pacman or apt, it just doesn't provide. Otherwise, great distro.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-02-11
Votes: 2
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First tome trying it Very nice look and simple working environment.I liked it a lot.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-01-29
Votes: 1
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Solus Budgie 3.9999
Non-UEFI install
The installation will warn you that installing the GRUB boot loader can make the disk unbootable. In my multi disk system it wanted to install to sda, but Solus was installed to sdb (after Makulu LinDoz, Devuan XCFE and MX18 XCFE).
I selected not to install a boot loader. There is no 'install boot loader to /, root' button. It then completely munged the disk boot loader and I could not boot into any distro.
Running MX Live CD boot repair, RescaTux and SuperGrub Repair were all ineffective. SuperGrub Repair saw the distros but upon selecting any detected distro it hung at a blank screen. So I booted MX17 Live, gparted & deleted Solus and wrote the boot loader to MBR, which then allowed me to boot into my previous distros.
I strongly suggest that Solus be installed to its own disk, after disconnecting the main disk as I shudder to think what it can do to a Win10 dual boot disk. In the case of Win10 you may want to do an image backup before proceeding with the Solus install.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-21
Votes: 17
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I have been using Solus for over a year. Almost the entire time that I stopped using Windows.
I can only come up with two points of critique, to this distro:
- It needs a real dark-theme. The file explorer and many setting menus are a flashbangs that can't be avoided by toggling it.
- It can be graphically glitchy. Like a diagonal screen tear from left-up to bottom-right when scrolling sometimes. Nothing major however.
- You need to have your wallpaper in the images folder
- The password entry for encryption looks very basic. Just white text on black.
The good things:
+ Software is easy to find and discover, and the software is chose well. There is little redundancy, but there are plenty of great programs to get all things done.
+ It's blazing fast
+ Simple and clean design and looks
+ The terminal feels completely optional (it's there for advanced users)
+ Works well on all my hardware including a Macbook Pro 2015 (I can explain!)
Some things I will hope to see from Linux in general, is some more basic functionality:
0 Purchasing and trying to use/install scanners not being so scary
0 Being able to set up file sharing from folders and choose the privileges and workgroup/domain in the settings. Samba is overly complicated to install, and is more than people need.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-18
Votes: 3
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The best distro I ever tried.
It is stable, the packages are up to date and it is safe.
Thank you to the Solus team.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 7
Date: 2019-01-16
Votes: 0
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Running for 1+ years now and honestly there's no point in using it anymore.
Pros:
-Has somewhat obscure software that you wont find on Debian
Cons:
-Missing everything else. No, seriously, the devs are stubborn as hell when it comes to allowing software. Don't use this distro if you don't want to use ANYTHING else other than a web browser and steam. I recommend Arch instead
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-15
Votes: 5
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By far the fastest und most hassle-free distro I have tried. I know it is a small dev. team but for now I will stick with Solus as my daily driver. It has been rock stable so far and not let me down.
- Installation was a breeze
- Bungie is my absolute favourite desktop
- beautiful looks oob
- all the important apps I need
- flatpack works fine
- boot up time is just insanely fast
Good job and keep up the good work Solus!
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-11
Votes: 7
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I used several distro's during my time as a linux user like debian, openSUSE etc. but Solus is probably the first distro I never had major issues I had to fix.
It's well documented and supported, lightweight, has some really cool features, especially if you pair it with Budgie. I also like how packaking is done in Solus and they are not only encouraging ppl to participate, the give them the tools to do so and to learn it easily.
The community is small, but that's an advantage in my experience. Better then bloated like ubuntu, debian or openSUSE. Everything is up to date until now if you are looking for something.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-08
Votes: 8
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I switched to solus with budgie from frankdebian with i3wm, and I can only say that I'm very pleased. Solus is not bloated at all, very responsive and has great software support.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-08
Votes: 13
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What a great distro! For average user : stability 10/10, speed 9/10, repository 7/10, budgie 9/10, simplicity 10/10, security 10/10, installation 8/10. They dared to make a new distro from scratch and they did a great job. In a couple of years the hole linux world will realise that Solus how linux should be
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-12-27
Votes: 13
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Installed Solus for the First Time on my laptop and I am liking what I see. But most of all, I love the Budgie Desktop Desktop. So far, didn't have issues but I would like to make it my main driver on my Desktop Computer, but I waiting for Solus 4.x.
Love how the updating system is done.
Overall, am giving Solus a 10.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-12-24
Votes: 1
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Best distro ever.. i think in the future this distro will take over windows
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-12-18
Votes: 16
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Very polished distribution with emphasis on modern desktop/laptop systems with a good selection of pre-build packages (for that purpose). Frequent updates combined with impressive stability (at least for the duration of the last 8 months).
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-12-14
Votes: 10
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Pro's: very nice looking, appears to run snappy. The Budgie implementation is logical and default packages installed make sense.
I am still testing, but honestly, the only things keeping me from rating Solus as a 9 or 10 is the screwy install partitioning options, or should I say, lack of partitioning options, and package management. For many this is probably not a big deal. If it's not, Solus looks to be a great choice.
I will wait eagerly for future updates, fixes, and features. Maybe someday Solus can become my main go to OS.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-12-10
Votes: 4
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Worried about that Windows 7 support coming to an end? Not anymore. Solus should be your next OS
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-12-09
Votes: 9
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Great distro.stable,fast.clean.easy to use.man i love this disro, but unfortunately after solus moved to new servers >getsol.us< i not being able to update my system,downloading updates is way to slow 67 to 125 kbs and hangs when updating,via terminal or software center its the same problem.
Im going to miss you solus !!
Greetings from Portugal.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-12-06
Votes: 16
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An amazing distribution to bring beauty in simplicity back to the forefront of networking standards. The only Gnome variant without slowdowns and the ability to customize without flaw. My only gripe is that it was made to be the only operating system per hard drive therefore the grub boot loader by passes OS chooser by default, which is an easy fix but still something to note. Tested all GUI's resulting in optimal performance. Beauty by design, charismatic by nature, driven in a unified direction to improve quality of workflow. Thank you Solus.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-12-02
Votes: 10
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This system is amazing. Everything works flawless, even GNOME which on other distros is a bit sluggish, here works like a charm and Budgie is the best desktop I tried so far. If next release will be even better than this one, this boat will sail us into space!
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-11-26
Votes: 4
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There are only three Linux distros that I find very user friendly. Even though, I have only been using Solus for around a week or so, it has immediately become one of my three favorite user friendly distros. There are still a few printer recognition and making default apps permanent issues, but they are minor issues which I hope will be improved / fixed very soon. The package manager has all the software that I have been using through the years. There's not a single software program that I am missing, and even my favorite simple to use graphics software "Pinta" has been working straight out of the box (unfortunately, it crashes on Ubuntu 18.04), so I am pretty happy with how Solus has been performing so far.
Cheers,
Heinrich
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-11-22
Votes: 5
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Really lightweight Operating System. Installed Budgie on my 11 years old PC and it has no lags.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-11-21
Votes: 13
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I installed the budgie version on my Dell isnpiron N5110 laptop no problem.
I could not get it to install on my main PC. This was due to my main PC using uefi. The installer does not handle multi disk uefi sytem well. I could not get the bootloader to write to another disk. The only way I could boot into the installation was selecting the disk Solus was on, in the bios boot menu.
I was not able to work out how to move the bootloader. This was partly my own lack of Linux knowledge and partly my inability find any information on how to do this.
The software in the repos, is sorted into catgories and is curated.It may not have all you wanted but it had all I needed. I found the package manager and eopkg would hang for a while after finishing every install. Eopkg would show an error at the end of the install, but the install would still work.
Day to day use of the system was good and stable. Budgie seemed snappy even my old laptop. I like the style and functionality. I would recommend Solus to anyone using a legacy bios or a single disk uefi system.
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-11-17
Votes: 5
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Team is back updating and bug fixing and the OS feels better than ever.
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-11-13
Votes: 15
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I have been a Linux user since switching to Ubuntu in 2006. Since then I have used many different distros. But, over time, many of the Ubuntu based distros are getting more and more unstable. And I couldn't get any of them to work well at all, on my Mother-in-Law's Old Toshiba Laptop. None of them would shut down correctly, etc. So, I had been watching the progress of the Solus project for some time. But, the lack of software in their repository kept me from making the plunge. However, I looked again, and realized that the repository had grown very quickly. So, I installed Solus Mate 3.999 on my Mother-in-Law's Toshiba, and it worked like magic. The computer even restarted properly. Which had not worked well for years, on other distros. It is clean, efficient, and responsive. Since it it is a fresh start from a Linux base, without all the baggage and bulk up that many other distros have to carry. Plus, I like that there is a single repository, that is well curated and secured. I can see myself migrating my other computers over to it in the future. Congrats to the Solus team, and only good wishes for the future. Will look forward to when you open back up to financial donations, so we can help support this great project. Keep up the good work:)
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Version: 3
Rating: 6
Date: 2018-11-12
Votes: 0
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nice OS ilove it working smothly in vectorgraphic ...... but still bugs need to be slove .....now my solus 3.999 stop working & my work too .... hope you slove this bug ..... thanks.
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Version: 3
Rating: 6
Date: 2018-11-11
Votes: 0
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I love budgie, because of the more usable and simplistic sidebar and there is nothing worth experiencing it other than on Solus itself, or so i thought.
im a power-user so im familiar with common linux behavior, but Solus has some stuff, system-related thats different. what bothers me is the lack of /usr/local/ hierarchy since i often compile apps i use and most of these has /usr/local as default for data. its troublesome to have to modify all the configurations because of this.
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Version: 3
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-11-08
Votes: 5
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Switched from Manjaro 17.x to Solus 3.x (after a 1year of use).
Since then I have had very little issues. Not as fast as Manjaro
but much more stable - especially with updates.
In general very nice install (except you have to fix the partitions before install).
Very clean user environment. Could perhaps have a bit more customizations
BUT on the whole It works very well.
I got tired of the frequent problems at updates in Manjaro. This particular issue
happens very seldom in Solus. Also IF it happens it is very easy to check all
packages and fix the problem.
Personally I like the minimalistic UI.
I find that program running via Play On Linux works better (for some reason) in Solus.
It also seems like the creators take better care of packages before releasing them
in the wild. I've now used Solus for the better part of a year and had very few problems.
In the beginning there were fewer progrograms available. This have however changed
over time. From my perspective I rarly lack anyhting.
Solus might not be the fastest or most configurable distor, but in my experience it is probably
the best in terms of stability, ease of use and cinsistant design langue.
Sure there are small things here and there which could be better. But nothing which breaks the
deal - so to speak.
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Version: 3
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-11-05
Votes: 5
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The last time I used it (~1 week ago), it was a largely pleasant experience (with 3.999), although oddly enough it doesn't have xterm in its official repos and it's my favourite minimal terminal emulator (which I use under i3). I like its:
* Rolling release model
* Out-of-the-box usability. Not quite as out-of-the-box as deepin or elementary (e.g. it doesn't have proprietary Broadcom drivers in its live session, nor is this package installed by the installer if a WiFi chip that needs it is detected), but still fairly out-of-the-box.
* Speed, Phoronix reported it was the second fastest distro to boot, likely related to the fact Doherty was its original developer and he worked at Intel (which created the fastest distro to boot in said test, Clear Linux).
* Beautiful default aesthetics. I dislike the fact its signature desktop environment, Buidgie, is less customizable, especially its task bar, than GNOME and KDE. GNOME and MATE editions are available, however, so if you want this customizability you can get it. A KDE edition is in the pipeline.
Despite this I have also had very bad experiences with it in the past, like in July I had this issue https://getsol.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12480&p=40824#p40824 and in January the GUI started crashing and then restarting over and over midway through my first update (with eopkg up) post-install. This wasn't fixable from an agetty terminal (the one started with Ctrl+Alt+Fn, where n=2,3,4,..) as whenever the GUI restarted I was taken back to the GUI window, away from the agetty terminal. I couldn't stay at an agetty terminal for any more than a few seconds before the GUI restarted and I was taken away. This happened everytime I installed Solus and then performed the first update, I tried reinstalling 3-4 times!
I dislike that you can't do package management from a chroot into a Solus system, eopkg doesn't seem to like chroots. APT, pacman, Portage and RPM front-ends work fine within chroots, however.
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Version: 3
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-11-05
Votes: 2
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I like solus and i really want to love it, but for some strange reason every week something tends to break and i find myself fresh installing it again. Maybe ill switch to something more stable until such issues are fixed..
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-11-01
Votes: 11
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Formerly a Windows user, I played with linux for about almost 3 years, going back on Windows and on Linux every week.
This distro stopped this behaviour, it's just great and works as well.
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-29
Votes: 14
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Cannot be happier about my decision to go Solus on my home laptop.
+ working out of the box
+ rolling distro, yet hassle free
+ cool looks, like the Budgie DE (this being rather personal, also like the deepin DE)
+ intuitive enough for my non-Linuxers at home
+ well optimized
- not that many packages (though I have all I need so not a big deal for me)
- boring :)
No, really, it is just great. The only competitor is IMHO Manjaro (Budgie/deepin).
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Version: 3
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-10-22
Votes: 3
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It just works. There are a few minor bugs here and there but its acceptable since its still new. Most people will get what they were looking for using Solus.
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-21
Votes: 3
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A rolling distro without a lot of the rolling distro headaches. I really like it. Also Budgie is rad. Hopefully It'll catch on and be maintained for a good long time.
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Version: 3
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-10-20
Votes: 7
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Amazing speeds and lack of bloatware.
The only reason that I didn't give it a 10 is that it is missing some packages such as libgconf2-4.
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Version: 3
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-10-19
Votes: 2
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Really good in general but have a few things not working for me. Ill probably skip for now and return when the next update is available.
PS Great distro for linux newcomers and people that want something easily usable.
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-17
Votes: 28
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Even if you install the 3.999 ISO refresh, install every update separately, system updates, restart, security upd, restart, package specific upd, restart, if you pass the update olympics, that's it, you've made it.
Running Budgie on an AMD R1600, 16 gigs of ram, and a 3rd gen mobile Core i3 with 4 gigs, both run beautifully, never had issues on both of these machines, DE related or distro related.
If you want a distro that has up to date packages, is easy to install, easy to mantain, and responsive, even on it's heaviest flavour, Solus is for you. Check first with the live OS that the important packages that you need are in the repo, if they are, welcome to Solus!
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Version: 3
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-10-15
Votes: 4
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The best desktop interface yet.
Great design, nice wall paper, fast and responsive.
Most impressive it installed google earth pro.
The problem is the package management is not mature and does not have a full repository of packages and since you cant use apt or the like there is no work around. the user
help is not very robust as well.
If all you need to do is surf the web and run some graphics apps or
music, etc. then great for a newbie who enjoys a great esthetic,
quickness, and ease and useability.
For system admins, power users, those that use many varied applications
and build from source you will be frustrated.
Great for mom or pop.
Other wise not mature but still one of the most promising distros.
The Budgie interface is best of all the window managers.
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-13
Votes: 2
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Modern. Fast. Hassle free. Impressive os. Of all the distro this remains the best. Very minor bugs. I had more issues with ubuntu when compared to this. Out of the box wine support. Can run notepad and paint like a boss.
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Version: 3
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-10-02
Votes: 8
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It is an extremely polished and clean-feeling distro. Given the amount of efforts that must have gone into building it from the ground up, it is truly impressive. There are a few minor things that go awry at times, but nothing that has ever hampered my workflow.
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-02
Votes: 6
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One of the best operating systems contemporaneity!
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Version: 3
Rating: 1
Date: 2018-09-23
Votes: 0
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Hi there, after performing updates (many GB and long time it took) I cannot enter my session anymore.. I put the right password but I cannot enter my session. What has it happened??? Somebody else did it suffer this problem?? Sadly I will have to erase it and test another distro..
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Version: 3
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-09-19
Votes: 10
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Getting Solus installed is easy. Getting re-started after the installation definitely is rough and could sour people on the project.
That said, once you do manage to get the ball rolling on Solus, it's a pretty smooth ride. Though the Budgie desktop was fairly heavy on other distros, it's well integrated into Solus. For example, it doesn't have the wandering icon issue that Ubuntu Budgie has. Resource use is fairly low, and on my HP Pavilion, I get pretty good battery life (roughly 4-5 hours with TLP and Powertop).
Software choices are decent but limited; if you aren't a power user, then what's offered should suffice. Snap sort of works here (although in the two instances in which I've used it--to add Spotify and Tusk--the software didn't work the second time around).
A hint for those of you who wish to use Budgie: What kept the blinking black screen at bay for me was running [sudo eopkg up] in the terminal instead of using the Software Center for the initial upgrades after installation. It's a lengthy process to be sure (nearly a half hour or so), but no blinking screen occurred afterward.
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Version: 3
Rating: 1
Date: 2018-09-10
Votes: 0
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Can confirm the same, black screen going on and off with a white blinking cursor...
Installed on a new 16G USB3 SanDisk ultra flash, worked perfectly first - fast nice and simple desktop. However, ... upon performing updates (long Gb updates... very long updates keeping in mind when the iso was last made) the PC got into lock-screen mode with no line to login and no possible shortcut combination working . Power button helped (after an hour waiting), but I landed at the black screen mentioned. Did the exercise again, reinstalled, updated (3.999, really!?), rebooted at black blinking screen [tried on 2 notebooks everything runs on - older HP with Radeon and newer with Nvidia].
Decided maybe should not waste time for beta OS... here the surprising bonus, the USB flash could not be re-formated, both under linux or windows, with all possible tools tried... likely got overheat with 1 year succession of updates.
Now, reading many positive comments below ... a la "nicer, greater, better and even more stable than *Buntu, Mint, Debian etc." wondering ... really, more stable than even Debian!?
Rolling, v. 3.999 likely going to be 3.9999x soon, with no iso in view after a year with an excuse "install once roll forever". Ok, maybe for those lucky fellas installed a year ago and rolled .... For me a black screen with a blinking cursor. Anyway, not gonna try Solus till there is an iso.
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Version: 3
Rating: 5
Date: 2018-09-09
Votes: 0
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Can confirm black screen after update installation. Forums are not friendly, very inactive.
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Version: 3
Rating: 1
Date: 2018-09-03
Votes: 0
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not ready for primtime. install went great and then updates gave me the black screen of death.
back to ubuntu i go
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-09-03
Votes: 2
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Nothing else will do anymore. A year ago I thought all the decisions they made were stupid.
Why start yet another new independent distro?
Why create yet another desktop environment?
The thing is, their vision is right. This is what desktop computing should be.
The only problem I have with it is that I just can't get the file explorer to use darkmode, making me use the terminal at times to avoid a flashbang to the face.
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-09-03
Votes: 14
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Pros:
-Solus is extremely fast and seems to be optimized well.
-For an independent distribution, the software selection is decent.
-The Budgie desktop is very clean and relatively light on resources.
-Rolling release means software packages are fairly fresh.
-Plenty of Window Manager choices in the repository if you prefer those instead of Desktop Environments.
Cons:
-Certain linux configuration details are hidden by default, but most users don't need to bother with them. (BTW, many distros restrict users from certain actions)
-Obscure software packages aren't available on the standard repository.
-Some may not like the look and functionality of Budgie design, but you have the choice of MATE or GNOME versions or using a WM instead.
I understand some users' experiences may vary, but from the time I installed and configured Solus on 2 very different machines about 3 weeks ago, I've had absolutely no problems. Whatever issues that may arise from the rolling updates are usually fixed quickly. If you're unlucky enough to run into an installation update problem, come back in a day or two, and it'll most likely be already resolved.
The best part about using an independent distro is the packagers are building/compiling the binaries against the Solus system without relying too much on upstream packagers. This means they are likely better optimized specifically for Solus users, and this is probably why Solus runs so smoothly.
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Version: 2017.04.18.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-08-23
Votes: 12
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Solus is a great distro! (I am torn between Solus and Antergos being the best rolling release distro.)
Pros:
For a rolling release it is very stable.
The Budgie DE is the main reason I am so fond of this distro. It is a sharp, modern and well thought out desktop.
Cons:
Installation was not the quickest (not a big deal)
Not quite as many apps as other distros (again not a big problem)
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-08-21
Votes: 10
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Solus OS is amazingly stable compared to Ubuntu distro's such as Elementary OS, Manjaro etc.
I've been comparing/running Ubuntu based distro's and Solus OS on multiple laptops (different brands). The Ubuntu distro's always end up being unstable, package problems, crashes, high CPU usage whereas Solus OS is SMOOTH and doesn't even budge (see what I did there?).
There is so much more that's just "BETTER" compared to the other popular distro's, from the install wizard (which is awesome) to updates and app store.
Sure, Ubuntu distro's allow for easy package installing of any kind but this is also a severe stability risk. Solus OS has its own controlled package system (eopkg) that works smooth and ensures stable installs. But with Snap support there's no real reason to stick to Ubuntu based.
Ikey
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-08-21
Votes: 7
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Not much to say, because right now it is simply the best distro out there! I'm using it for months now, without even one problem on the way! It's strange how it is not so popular. Soooo much better, stable, light on resources and smooth than Mint, Ubuntu or Manjaro. In my opinion it's even more stable than Debian! Really! Parent rolling distribution done right, with a lot of heart. Much, much recommended, for both new and advanced linux users.
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Version: 3
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-08-19
Votes: 3
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The only top-ten distro in Nov 2017 which installed out-of the-box on my cheap new TREKSTOR Primebook P14 with UEFI Bios. Other major distros didn't boot on this Apollo-Lake-based hardware. Also supports the fairly new touch pad of this hardware.
I love the elegant yet easy-to-use Budgie desktop.
So far, I could install anything I wanted from software center or command line (eopkg).
I'm impressed by the concepts behind the rolling update and dependency management (as far as explained in their blog).
Recently, I was a bit worried since there was no new blog entry for several months. However, now there is activity again.
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Version: 3
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-08-13
Votes: 2
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Successfully operations system. As it's supposed to be. Simple & elegant eye candy fast interface with Budgie desktop environment. Especially dark color theme is as I want. No bloatware. Runs smooth on my old hardware. Easy to install GPU driver. But I can't use now. Because I need Nvidia CUDA support for Blender, OBS etc software. I did not found any info about it as beginner linux user. This is the feature I need most. :/
G31M
E2160 @3GHz
GTX 650Ti Boost
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Version: 3
Rating: 8
Date: 2018-08-12
Votes: 4
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I've been running an install of Solus (with the Gnome DE) on my computer for several months with very few problems. The only problems I've encountered were installing DaVinci Resolve, which I just couldn't install (even though it was a .sh file and not .deb); the other problem that I encountered was that I wanted to install the OSX-Arc-Darker theme but couldn't because the package it was in it was a .deb file.
However, managed to convert it on a Ubuntu based distro using the Alien package converter to a .tgz file which I could open in Archive Manager and then extract the relevant files. But I had to use Krusader (opening as root through the Terminal) to put the theme files in "/usr/share/themes" manually as, obviously, there was no automated installation. As for DaVinci Reslove I'm still trying my best to find a way of installing it.
Obviously the reasons I had problems was due to the fact that I used to use either Debian or Ubuntu based distros and this is my first time using an independently developed distro. Overall the experience of Solus Gnome is excellent. Its very clean and modern and I like the overall look.
Computer Specs
CPU: AMD Ryzen 1300X
GPU: GTX650 Ti BOOST
Hope this was helpful.
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-08-09
Votes: 2
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Solus Budgie working pretty smooth on 3 generation i3 laptop.
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-08-07
Votes: 5
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Budgie desktop environment and Solus performance are great. Maybe this distro doesn't have as many packages as Ubuntu, but I'm alwyas finding what I need and I really prefer Solus over new Ubuntu 18.04 releases with an exception to Ubuntu Budgie, which is great too, thanks to Canonical's repos and Solus' environment.
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-08-06
Votes: 16
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I have been using Solus for about a year now. I must say that this is an oddly boring distro. I mean that in the most complimentary way...there is never anything to fix! Most distributions require a fair bit of tweaking to get going. I like to tweak things, which is why I am a little bored with Solus. For a rolling distro to be this stable out of the box is quite some feat.
I have installed Solus on 4 different machines....two laptops; a weak laptop and one that is up to snuff for anything; and two desktops, one of which is a monster, and one that is a crappy work machine with minimum quals. All four machines run this operating system very fast with no issues. I keep looking for things to fix, but there is never anything...so boring!
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Version: 3
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-08-05
Votes: 4
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I see some people with crash,hangs and slow boot problems on Solus,im using Solus Budgie for about
7 mouths now and i only had a problem with the current Kernel, so i install LTS kernel and never ever had a problem again,LTS Kernel is much more stable,try it and see for your self's.
My laptop is old,very old HP Compaq 6910p with 2 gigs of ram and works fine with Solus Budgie.
I have tried many other distros and i always comeback to Solus,just love it.Waiting for Solus 4 :)
PROS:
Stable,very stable,easy to use,not the lightest distro ever made but light enough for 2 gigs of ram,and is fast.
Not a ton of applications on app center but what is there is all very well tested and stable.
CONS:
Problem with current Kernel but the LTS Kernel solved the problem, not really a Solus problem.
Peace everyone, greetings from Portugal :)
PS:Sorry for my English
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