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Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by ufo » Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 1:26 AM UTC

axaxs wrote: post #5

ufo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were you drawn to Solus mainly because of Budgie? Or was there something else too?

Nope, I don't even use Budgie. Despite my distaste for it, I'm still a Gnome guy. So, I don't remember why I even tried it other than I'd grown tired of Arch based footguns. I wanted rolling release, something easy to install that supported full disk encryption, and a decent amount of stuff via repo. Believe it or not, there's not a lot that ticks all those boxes.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is the only other one that I can think of.

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by SquareWheel » Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 1:31 AM UTC

Big fan of Solus. It's one of the nicest options off the beaten path of arch and Debian-based distros. Great gaming support, and Budgie is very nice too.

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by kvark » Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 2:58 AM UTC

Amazing work! I'm excited to try out the Plasma variant. So far have been using Budgie, and quite happy with it.

The main annoyance is package repository. Not only it's humble, but the maintainers have really strong views on what shouldn't be there. Faced the problem when tried to install/build Fractal client.

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by rwnspace » Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 3:00 AM UTC

If I didn't have the "Ikea effect" with my current Void install I'd be using Solus. Straightforward, sensible and clean. Plenty of useful and interesting software in the repos. Good enough UX for developers and your nan.

I encourage everyone to try it, but before you do, remind yourself that it isn't Arch or Debian-based, so if you use some unusual software you may well need to build from source.

Re: Solus 4.1 Fortitude

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Post by pabs3 » Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 5:16 AM UTC

axaxs wrote: post #5

ufo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were you drawn to Solus mainly because of Budgie? Or was there something else too?

Nope, I don't even use Budgie. Despite my distaste for it, I'm still a Gnome guy. So, I don't remember why I even tried it other than I'd grown tired of Arch based footguns. I wanted rolling release, something easy to install that supported full disk encryption, and a decent amount of stuff via repo. Believe it or not, there's not a lot that ticks all those boxes.

I'm using Gnome on Debian testing and it ticks those boxes for me.