Salient OS is an Arch Linux-based, rolling-release distribution aimed at multimedia and gaming enthusiasts. It is optimised for performance as a gaming workstation and it can be installed to a hard disk using the Calamares installer. Salient OS comes in two separate editions, featuring either the Xfce or the KDE Plasma desktop.
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Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the "nautilus" and "gnome-shell" packages. The Apache web server is listed as "httpd" and the Linux kernel is listed as "linux". The KDE desktop is represented by the "plasma-desktop" package and the Xfce desktop by the "xfdesktop" package.
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I used this OS for about a year, loved it. I can no longer get the nvidia drivers to work right. The calamares installer neglected to install a lot of selected packages starting a while back including the nv driver pkgs, so I simply setup on nouveau and manually installed the nv drivers via binary from recovery mode, then added the other stuff w/pacman myself. It worked well for a while. No longer, just hit with lightdm cannot start now. Sorry but I had to move on and switch to endeavor, but if there's a new iso anytime patching these items, I will return. Thanks for the great OS.
Excellent out of box experience and the KDE version works wonderfully for me. I haven't tried it out too much yet, so i'll find out soon if it's truly worth a 10/10.
I have tried about 10 diff distros in past 2 months. I do xfce only - don't like gnome - this is slick on xfce - very fast. I have slackware current as daily, but looking for alternate. I will keep this one for a while. Only slack and MX were as easy and as fast running as this. Installation was slow took 45 minutes, and libreoffice crashed the install on conflicting dependencies, but when I deselected it, it went clean. Otherwise I would give this a 10. I installed nearly everything, and it boots and runs extremely fast. Among those I tried and ditched are pop, manjaro, artix, mageia, solus (which I like but I need to either build drivers from source or have git/dkms) it didn't cooperate. This distro did. Running old xeon cpu on x58 with a lot of ram and 1070ti.