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Clr-boot-manager now available in Solus

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Re: Clr-boot-manager now available in Solus

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Solus is a rolling release linux distribution aimed at desktops. Its really very impressive. Its starting to feel a bit like a game-changer for linux desktops. Its run by Ikey Doherty who works for Intel's Clear Linux.

What makes it a game changer? The website is very sparse -- couldn't even find screenshots for budgie!

Solus is an interesting recent distro in that it's written entirely from scratch, not built on top of Debian/Ubuntu/Arch, etc. It also made its own DE, Budgie, which has since been ported to Ubuntu. It's also become the go-to distro for Linux Steam enthusiasts, because the developers put a huge amount of work into making their own package of Steam that seems to work better than many of the existing ones.

You can check out a DistroWatch review of it here: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20170206#solus

Also, you may wish to listen to an episode or two of Late Night Linux, on which Ikey is one of the hosts. It's not solely about Solus, but it does get quite a bit of screentime by virtue of his connection to it: https://latenightlinux.com/about/

Re: Clr-boot-manager now available in Solus

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It's a cool idea but I almost wonder if they would have gotten more functionality and the same end result by making use of ZFS snapshots and boot environments. Configuration could have even been kept in ZFS properties. Ikey has previous talked about ZFS not being right for a desktop distribution but I don't agree. Snapshots, rollbacks and checksums benefit everyone everywhere. It could be used transparently in the ba…

I've not used it, but afaik Suse linux default install have btrfs+snapper ( http://snapper.io ) It snapshots before every install and yast configuraton step and have a boot to snapshot feature..

I used snapper on Arch Linux before I eventually moved to ZFS, it worked quite well. Now I'm happier with ZFS and zfs-auto-snapshot though to be honest.

Re: Clr-boot-manager now available in Solus

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I've not used it, but afaik Suse linux default install have btrfs+snapper ( http://snapper.io ) It snapshots before every install and yast configuraton step and have a boot to snapshot feature..

Great tool - it's also available for the most common distros (RedHat, Debian, Ubuntu...) and it supports LVM, EXT4...

Cool, I didn't realize it supported more than btrfs.
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