Solus

Reader supplied reviews for Solus Average rating 7.5 from 195 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Solus? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 4.54.44.34.14.03.999932017.04.18.01.2.1 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 4.5 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-09-18 Votes: 39 Solus stands out to me as a unique and thoughtfully crafted operating system. It was seamless to install. No hardware compatibility issues. The Budgie desktop environment is clean and modern looking. Solus performance on my slightly older Lenovo laptop from 2019 operates very smoothly and efficiently. Their package repo is limited, but combined with Flatpaks there wasn't anything I needed that I couldn't find. Solus is a rolling release, and while it took some time for me to grasp the benefits of rolling releases, it has been very stable with no issues during updates over the past several months. The Solus community has decent documentation and a helpful online forum. Overall, I don't see a need to leave Solus having come from a Debian (Linux Mint) background. Very happy with Solus! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 4.5 Rating: 5 Date: 2024-08-07 Votes: 0 I've installed the XFCE version in VirtualBox. The installation process was fast, and the interface is clean and aesthetic. However, when I opened the Software Manager to install Inkscape, downloading the dependencies and installing them took about seven minutes. Additionally, Google Chrome isn't in the repository, so you have to manually install and periodically upgrade it. Sorry, but I'll stick to Debian-based distros with large repositories and a simple "click-on-DEB-file-enter-the-password" process for external software. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 4.5 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-07-15 Votes: 43 It went through a bit of a tumultuous journey there, but now we're on the other side of it and things have stabilized. Solus is still the only distro that feels like home to me. The combination of a carefully curated rolling release, built exclusively for the best desktop experience, and being an independent distro with its own desktop environment is unmatched. Budgie is perfect because it's got the simplicity of GNOME while still allowing for some easy customization and personalization. Sure, if you demand a huge selection of software available in the repos, you might end up looking elsewhere. I think they've got the average user pretty well covered and then some though, plus there's always Flathub. So while Solus may not have the biggest library of software, here's an example of what it does have: apps for some of the best VPN providers out there. To be safe I won't name them, don't want my review getting flagged, but it's the ones located in Sweden and Switzerland. If you're on Arch Linux you'd need to dive into the AUR to find those particular apps, but on Solus they're right there in the software manager GUI. So you may be surprised by all that you'll find here. Been using Solus for about five years and despite a little bump in the road it's better than ever now, being run by great people, and it's got a bright future. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 195 reader reviews of Solus...