Solus

Reader supplied reviews for Solus Average rating 7.6 from 238 review(s) Please select 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: -- 4.84.74.64.44.34.14.03.999932017.04.18.01.2.1 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: 4.8 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-01-18 Votes: 3 With Solus, you can sail comfortably from one port to the next and completely forget that you are on a rough sea. It is simply a large, stable boat if you choose the Gnome edition. I haven't explored the depths yet, but these are explained excellently in a documentation and you can also chat with other fishermen. Thanks to Flathub, you can now go fishing in the big sea of software. No Debian, no Fedora, no Arch brings so much calm to the helm and a clear view of the seagulls. Thank you, Solus! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 4.8 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-01-12 Votes: 5 I want to put this review on the interest that the project keeps on going popular and thus, continues growing. I recently switched from Win11 to Debian over a month ago, which taught me the basics of Linux. But as a desktop user, Debían doesn't feel right to me. The lack of true updates and a nasty experience that reset my KDE desktop made me hop elsewhere. It has so many interests that the desktop user is given the basic support, nothing too special. I then tried Fedora KDE and Tuxedo OS. Fedora was okay but had some annoying quirks I didn't want to live along with and Tuxedo felt like a work in progress, especially for my non-Tuxedo assembled hardware. Worked fine but it doesn't have any guides to setup the system right to have all sources, maybe they rely on the user setting it up as if it were just Ubuntu? Solus just feels right. Simple commands, a nice updated KDE experience. Snappy by default. It's flatpak repo amazingly had newer software than other flatpak repos I tried before. Through it, it was a breeze to set up my two decade scanner. Printer was easy enough to set up (could be better but some basic AI prompt helped me). @ Steam and Wine run smoothly and were super easy to set up. I don't know if they did something to its audio config but I swear music feels much crisper than in Debian/Fedora. I've been using it for a few days still but I do really feel at home here. I was worried because I like KDE and didn't want a distro that didn't treat it as a first class citizen. And it doesn't feel that way. I hope I can say here a long time. I don't know if I'd recommend it for a total Linux newbie, some basic experience is recommended. But I can assure you it doesn't disappoint. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 4.8 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-01-08 Votes: 3 Congrats to Solus: you finally outlived the misguided voices that always knocked it for "small repo." What a myth. It survived the departure of Ikey, DataDrake, and Josh Strobl, and completely perseveres to this day. Longtime user. Just installed 4.8 fresh last week, bare metal. Solus is, and always had been, stable, unique, dependable, and a distro in which I am able to do large volumes of taxing work on an older computer with a modest 16GB of memory without incident. I cannot say the same for many of its peers and I've tried the big names. I can't see leaving Solus--it's gorgeous and functional and I have no reason to. There is no perfect Linux distro but any hiccup is remedied instantly like it was Arch. I am docking 1 star since Budgie (my preferred DE) seems to be problematic the last year after a decade of solid performance. The next Solus Budgie will be 10.10 and Wayland only so I think this will be a great step forward. Keep rockin' Solus. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 238 reader reviews of Solus...