Version: 4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-06-26
Votes: 4
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There is no such thing as a perfect Linux OS however after testing many different distro's I can honestly say that Solus Mate 4.0 is the best I have run so far as a full install on HDD. I also have it installed as a full install on a 32GB Sandisk Ultra and both installs run fast and smooth. Ubuntu Mate has sound issues, MX Linux 18.3 is very good but not as ascetically pleasing, and AntiX is lightening fast but is not for new Linux users. Lubuntu was good as LXDE 18.04. Manjaro would occasionally fail after kernel updates which I got fed up with repairing. Other tried distro's were average in performance. Solus Mate 4.0 just looks good, runs well, no sound issues, boots quickly shuts down quickly and the only minor issue is updates can get stuck downloading if there are too many at one time, but a reboot appears to sort this out. Of course the hardware makes a difference to how things run, and this Solus Mate 4.0 is installed on an HP pro Desktop computer AMD athlon 11 with 4GB RAM which originally ran windows 7, 32 bit but was upgraded to Windows 10 64 bit in an work/office environment but struggled to cope. I now use this old computer as a distro test machine. It runs like a new computer with Solus Mate 4.0 installed. Solus OS is improving with every major upgrade and is a pleasure to use.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-21
Votes: 5
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It is highly likely that my distro hopping days are over. The itch may set in again in the future but I am fagged out. I tried about 70 distros in about 10 years giving each one at the very minimum of 2 weeks. Of the lot, the one I feel most at home is with Solus Mate version 4 and Kanotix. I had a few issues with Solus Budgie and Devuan. The last one I tried was Devuan. It was rock solid but there were issues with "/dev waiting to populate" which is confirmed issue with many distros but the poison has not affected Solus Mate. The most important aspect was flawless install of the HP Deskjet printer.
I hope the developers have a net install version in the future since after installing it I had to update 790MB worth of software. Praying IKEA the lead developer gets well sooner than later and the others contribute in lieu of IKEA.
Congratulations to all concerned. Startup times to desktop is about 9 seconds on a 2-year-old Samsung SSD and 22 seconds on an 8-year-old Hitachi HDD, Shut down times are 0.5 seconds on the SSD and 2 seconds on the HDD. Need I say more.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-19
Votes: 3
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Awesome overall experience.
- Great package manager
- Fast and reliable rolling release distro
- Excellent compatibility and performance for gaming via Steam/Proton
- Hardware (including printers) worked out of the box for me
- Well-sorted and expansive software repostitory
Keep up the good work!
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 2
Date: 2019-06-16
Votes: 0
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I tried to install Solus 4 on my old macbook from 2009 like many other linux distros before. Befor this I had on this macbook Zorin, Linux Mint 18.3 und fedora 30 without any problem. The live session of Solus 4.0 showed no problems, so I decided to install ist on the computer. Then came up an error message about the hdd while the installer partioned or formatted the hdd and I thought I had interrupted this process. When I tried to reboot the macbook with the fedora, which was on the macbook before or with any other distribution on usb-flah-drive, I couldn't see any effort any more. I noticed, that the bios-like-system on the old macbook was damaged and I can't install anything on this macbook any more. This is a sad result.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-15
Votes: 4
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I'm using Solus 4.0 Gnome since many months. I can put my experience in one word : awesome ! Light, fast (very fast, I was very suprised by the boot time of around 10 sec from the moment where I press start button and when I arrive to my desk), stable, up-to-date (Gnome 3.32 is very optimized). I've founded all my favorites softwares, even if I agree they are quite basics. Keep going devs !
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-06-13
Votes: 6
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Budgie was bad. Tried to love it but man what a pita it was. So initially I rated it 4 of 10. Now I am using Mate; way better. All the problems associated budgie are gone. Now I am having a stable system. No more update crash or freeze.
If u want Solus, get the Mate edition or suffer instability.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-12
Votes: 12
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Perfect distribution, Budgie is the best choice at the moment for a modern and responsive desktop manager ( I wish to have mission control by hot corners however the bottom panel is very handy).
Excellent and super fast eopkg, a general balance in all sectors that instills a feeling of stability and speed that I never experienced in other distros, apart from arch.
The fact that it is an independent project is a strength, support and tutorials are excellent.
I installed 4.0 in 15 different computers, all my friends are happy and don't teamviewer as much as before :-)
Thank you Solus
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-06-12
Votes: 0
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Tried it a few days before, looks very pleasant but switched back to MX because I was not able to get any updates, always error messages,
Re-installed Solus a few times but did not get rid of that bug.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-11
Votes: 1
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Awesome distro, my laptop is running cool and seems faster than ever.
Also, the interaction in the Budgie desktop is great (especially the workspace switcher applet works beautifully).
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-11
Votes: 2
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I use Ubuntu on March and start using Solus last month. This is what i think.
I'm using Budgie. It is a very cool desktop. I've tried KDE and MATE live, too many option so I don't like it. I feel Budgie menu is like xfce, but much cooler as I don't have to tinker it already look nice. This is the only reason I use Solus. Plus no problem installing Nvidia driver and I can play on steam. People told me it has small repository but it already cover all I need Spotify Steam LibreOffice Firefox. Fast boot and shutdown.
1. I don't like Software Center as it always make me feel like "is it stucked? is it downloading? freezed?".
2. Windows in dark mode is much appreciated, but should make the boarder in different color imo. Black window stacking on black window with black boarder is not nice.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-10
Votes: 0
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The best distro I've ever tested : fast, up-to-date, reliable and user-friendly. I use it as my daily OS and it's perfect. Continue your work devs !
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-10
Votes: 0
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Solus has become the daily driver on my Dell 7390 notebook. Not only does it run flawlessly, I also get CPU temps lower than on other distros and even Windows 10. I only wish there were NILFS2 and/or F2FS file system support like SolydXK does.
Devs, thanks for all your work.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-06-09
Votes: 5
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Where to start?
This distro is the reason I have been able to ditch windows completely, its the only distro that has always given me a consistent and reliable update to whatever program I have installed, and has never broken down or hiccuped. Eopkg can be a pain at times, however. Solus team is pretty strict it seems on what they would like to see in their repos, but to me this isn't a bad thing, since any program of quality or worth its weight in productivity I have been able to find. Started with Mate, which is highly recommended for those users who like to have more customization, but Budgie is my current daily driver. Linux Steam Integration is great, and always having the latest drivers whether it be AMD or Nvidia hasn't been an issue.
I wouldn't recommend for the complete novice, but if you've used linux for more than 3 months, Get it and try it out.
Thanks Solus Team, looking forward to Version 5 whenever we get it haha
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-06-03
Votes: 6
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for me solus is great, it is fast and flexible, also there are some games that run better than other distros
but the problem of packages remains a pain, so you have to compile from source, there are some kernel issues so this distro isn't advised for a beginner
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-25
Votes: 13
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I've been using the Mate version for over one year now and it is still working well. I think they offer the best Mate implementation and their rolling release model is very solid, I never had any problems updating the system. Keep up the good work!
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 6
Date: 2019-05-24
Votes: 0
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Pros:
- Pretty
- Reasonably fast
- Unique
Cons:
- eopkg fails about 1 in 4 times when trying to update packages. Have to continuously start over.
- systemd
- Not very configurable (using Budgie)
Recommendations:
- Should offer XFCE and/or KDE.
- Ditch eopkg for apt. Just give in, it works far more consitently.
Rating:
- 6/10
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-05-23
Votes: 1
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I've been running this distro since shortly after the release of Solus 3, and so far I love it. It runs quite fast, is easy to use, and all-around has given me a very pleasant experience. The software repositories aren't as filled out as some other Linux distros, but so far I've had little need of any software that isn't available for it. If there are packages that you need that aren't present yet, it never hurts to ask the devs about it. Also don't forget, both Flatpak and Snap are supported.
Pros:
Good selection of software that will cover most user's needs
Blazingly fast
Support for multiple DEs
Steam Integration
Helpful community
Cons
Somewhat limited repositories
Installer could be easier to use
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Version: 3.9999
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-05-22
Votes: 2
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I have been using Solus as my daily OS for 1.5 year. I really liked the ideas behind it: it's rolling release, it's working really good out of the box regarding drivers, it's fast etc. What is more the developers are really transparent and they communicate with the community very actively.
Unfortunately in the long run I had to resign from using it. The main reasons:
- Lack of software - sometimes explained by "you already have program X, it makes almost the same as program Y, you don't need Y". Compiling software is an option but sometimes libraries were missing and so on.
- Not to much resources online - I sometimes needed to install a specific version of some library and there is literally no information in the Internet which Solus package is installing it. All the information you can find are for Debian, Ubuntu and Arch derivatives, but they won't work on Solus.
In general I would say it's a great OS with a great potential. It's good for not demanding users that need to browse the web etc, just not for me.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-05-20
Votes: 5
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Solus is the only distro I tried in more than eight years as a GNU/Linux user, which was impossible to run in the live mode.
Since it is designed for the Linux beginners, it can hardly be recommended. Instead of giving advices at Solus forum about how to settle this problem, the developers should settle it themselves and avoid similar failures.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-19
Votes: 2
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Great indipendent distro, fast and stable.
Budgie is best compromise among all DE
Fresh air in Linux world
Thank you Solus :-)
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-15
Votes: 5
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I like Solus because of it's:
Pros:
-> Super Stability
-> Rolling Release
-> Very active support
-> Quick Bug fixing
-> Active Forum
-> **Fastest Boot & Shut Down
-> Performance Remain Same Over time
-> Don't Break whole system (which I faced on - `Ubuntu`, `Linux Mint`, `Manjaro`)
-> Very Straight Forward Documentations
Cons:
-> Less Software Support ( many third party software's are not available directly)
-> Even Some updates remain buggy in Stable Repo (though they are fixed very quickly, still it suffers)
-> Less Desktop Environment support
-> Not noob friendly ( solutions can't be found easily )
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-15
Votes: 3
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I started using Solus 3.9999 at the end Jan. 2019 or beginning of Feb. 2019 I stumbled on to Solus by chance. I had been looking for a solution to MS Win 10 on a laptop due to problems caused by Microsoft updates which made the laptop unusable when it would roll back to the new Win 10 updates.
A friend suggested using Linux Mint or Linux to cure the old laptops problems ....... thought why not try it I have nothing to lose since the laptop is inoperable not like it can make it any worse. After trying a bunch of others suggested "Best Ever" , I tried Solus it did everything I had hoped and ran the 2 games I could not get to work on any other OS I had tried.
Since then I have not found anything Solus is not or can not do as good or better then any MS Win I had ever used since Win 95 to Win 10. With the best part being there is never going to be a need to Buy an End User License from Microsoft ever again.
If you are coming from Windows OS give Solus a try you will be surprised at how easy and how well it is to install and use.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-15
Votes: 0
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Just the best distro i ever tried. Incrible fast, stable and its a rolling release. Just works.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-11
Votes: 3
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I still try other distros from time to time, but I always keep coming back to Solus.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-08
Votes: 5
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Fastest boot and shutdown time of all distros I tried. Rock solid performance for 1 month now. Supports all my Hardware out of the box (Haswell 4790k, GTX 970, 32 GB RAM, Samsung SSD 3x, 2x2 TB WD Black)
Software selection is a little on the slim side but well curated, I see room for improvement here, software center search is a little clumsy (searchbar at the top all the time would be nice), updates are fast and frequnet, never broke the system.
I see a great future for this distro, I hope they can keep up the good work, BUdgie is a charm to work with and look at!
10/10
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-08
Votes: 4
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After trying Kubuntu 18.10, Linux Mint 19.1, Ubuntu 19.04 and Fedora 30, I'm finally staying on Solus OS (gnome version) after 2 weeks of test. The distro is really smooth with gnome 3.32 and I've never seen an OS booting so quickly ! It's really awesome.
Moreover, the packages are often updated and I've never encounter a major bug during my daily and basically use.
The only point that can be improved is the software manager. Even if it's working like a charm, the design can be improved, especially for searching. Good point : it contain all the packages I need.
In my opinion, it's the best distro for a user who wants an simple and efficient OS to go online or work. Less for power users.
Great job !
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-07
Votes: 1
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I was distro-hoping a lot, but I think I found my haven, it's fast & light and the repo almost has all the packages I need
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-04
Votes: 5
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Fast, stable, Modern, works great with Nvidia cards, works great with steam. Given that it's a young Distro it's great. It has a great future ahead
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 4
Date: 2019-05-02
Votes: 1
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It looks good, I like Budgie very much, i wanted to use it much more, but there is a problem.
Solus will not run grub in EFI mode, but i can run along grub when you use your boot-menu (F11 in my case) then you can choose grub or Solus. That is, until grub gets updated, then the system boots into grub, and Solus disappears, also from the boot menu, where it's place is taken by grub.
I haven't found a way yet to have Solus run alongside grub in a stable way on EFI.
The decision to refuse to run grub in EFI mode make that i give Solus a 4.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-02
Votes: 3
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Great philosophy & Great potential
As a long time Slackware user, i always appreciate Distro that follow their own way disregarding crowd pressure.
Their homebrew Budgie DE still need polish but it works and is fast, so far the experience has been one hassle-free and stable.
I was surprise also how fast it does has a portable format (USB external storage).
There could be more package but i don't blame the dev's since they already have a lot on their plate.
So far my experience has been as a development workstation and it does a great job at it.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-01
Votes: 3
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Simply outstanding!
This is a no muss no fuss distribution.
Easy installation, easy to use and easy to maintain.
Would love the Pocillo icon set.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-30
Votes: 0
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The only distro I checked that supports full encryption via LVM and GRUB correctly. On laptops extremly smooth and well-behaving.
I still miss saltstack support, though.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-27
Votes: 1
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I switched from Windows to Linux full time about 4 month ago. I tried several distros to see what each has to offer and if it meets my needs. Distros I tried: Mint, Ubuntu (several flavours), Debian, Manjaro, MX Linux, Solus.
The reasons I stayed with Solus:
- it offers all the programs I need
- it is by far the fastest booting Linux I tried
- installation was hassle free and easy
- it is a rolling release distro with up to date drivers and kernel
- Steam support is stellar
- I experienced the community/ support as friendly and welcoming
- the interface is polished and customizable to my liking without much work
Room for improvement:
- "Timeshift" like implementation for backup
- search in the software center should not be a seperate click (just put an always on searchbar up the top)
- I did not find a way to remove orphaned packages (like for example "apt autoclean" "apt autoremove")
Keep up the good work! This Distro is hassle free, fast, uptodate and polished! THUMBS UP!!!
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-26
Votes: 1
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Stable, fast, sleek and modern looking yet it's lightweight.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-23
Votes: 0
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Stable, fast, sleek and modern looking yet it's lightweight.
Everyone should try Solus.
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Version: 4.0
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-20
Votes: 4
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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: 3
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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: 0
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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: 7
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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: 3
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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: 2
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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: 4
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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: 6
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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: 0
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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: 30
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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: 3
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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: 2
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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: 20
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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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